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The tail end of Henson, tail end of Weber and most of the Groce era were a little different because we were mostly just bad but the rest of our history during my fandom we've been right about where we are now.

I think much of the angst with Underwood can be traced to the Loyols loss of course, with a smidgen of the Covid year thrown in as well.

But I've also mentioned this previously that he's kind of a mad scientist at work. He came in with his pinch post offense and pressure D and to his credit abandoned those once he got better players. But since then we've just had a plethora of recruiting shifts - Chicago guys (Ayo/Miller), Caribbean pipeline, transfers, one and done frosh and now Euros. And similar changes in playing styles, from Kofi in the post, pick and roll with Ayo/Belo, trying to play 5 out, booty ball, hunting match ups. Similar stuff on defense.

So what exactly is going to be the thing that gets us to that proverbial next level? Really don't know what we're hanging out hat on. Positional size and shooting is the current mantra but it's really been putting together the next team each season and trying to figure it out. Maybe that's just the new world order of college hoops.