re: Preview your basketball teams upcoming season

Our team should be much better this year in the non-conference. We were .500 until we got to the SEC where our players looked like they actually knew how to play basketball. I think we would have been a bubble team if we didn't have those miserable losses at Auburn and to Vandy at home.

This year we return every quality player other than Donte Williams who averaged about 5 points and 5 boards per game. If Mann can cut down on his turnovers he can be really good and Kenny Gaines is an absolute stud. I think the league will be better in general though so I would expect a similar SEC record of 12-6. Hopefully that along with a solid non-conference will be enough to get us around a 10 or 11 seed in the NCAA tournament.