Another 2013-2014 Top 10 MUBB Prediction

[Silkk the Shaka]

No proven point guard. No proven 2 guard. No proven outside shooting. Loss of great glue guy (Lockett) and clutch player (Vander). Let's not get ahead of ourselves here. We could be pretty good and may even be really good by the end of the year. Too many parts have to fall in place for me to think we are going to be as good as this year. We are still pretty deep.

Check the date on the original post yo.  Pre-Vander announcement.

[Goose]

Next year can be special even with Vander hitting the bricks. I never bought into Freshmen cannot be big contributors and fully believe we have three Freshmen and Juco that will be very big part of our success. For a year I believed we were FF contender next season and loss of Blue takes a tad of excitement away. Never felt Blue was coming back, but until he said he was leaving had held out hope.

Kentucky won with all young guys two years ago and we have combination of exciting Freshmen and returning players. If we are not a top 15 team from Jan 1 until end of season I will be disappointed. Obviously everything hinges on guys being healthy, but sky high jacked for next season.

[bilsu]

Freshmen can be big contributors, but they are usually inconsistant. Last year was successful partly because we avoided the injury bug that has hit us so hard in previous years.

[DaCoach]

How many freshmen have had big years under Buzz? And the biggest problem we had last year was turnovers. Freshmen make those mistakes. Personally I'll love seeing the youngsters next year but I don't expect to see them dominate until at least 2015. I'll be very happy with a Sweet 16 finish and pray for more.

[real chili 83]

We will be all impressed with the leadership shown by Derrick Wilson next year.  He is the one factor none of the talking heads, or many of us appreciate.  Spoke about it in an earlier post tonight.

For substantiation, see Madison game, ala 2011.  That was just a preview.

Brew, crank up the prediction machine!!!