Originally Posted by
Juice752
That said, I'm not sold that we will be a bottom half team next year.
USU returns just about everyone. They will be good once again and seem a sure fire NCAA tournament team.
NMSU lost their top 2 scorers. They still have McKines, Gillenwater, and Rahman. But they lost 40 points per game.
Nevada loses Armon Johnson, Brandon Fields, and Joey Shaw. That was 40 points a game as well. I haven't heard Babbitt official say he is staying and I believe he has until the 25th to decide. And Nevada is a team that had less depth than us last year.
Fresno loses Paul George and Sylvester Seay. They were a decent team but they are losing 2 NBA draft picks.
Idaho loses almost all of their starting 5.
San Jose State loses Chris Oakes and Robert Owens. Their 2nd and 3rd leading scorer and their top rebounder. Unfortunately I believe Adrian Oliver was just a junior so he should be back. But San Jose didn't have that good of a team around him.
Boise loses actually probably has the most contributors (outside of Utah State) returning but they aren't that good of a team and have to adjust to a new coach.
And Hawaii...well...is Hawaii. And on top of that they lost their only good player Roderick Fleming.