I agree with all that's said. But one thing that still needs to improve drastically is 3 pt defense. We are still getting to the shooters way too late consistently. Michigan went ice cold or they would have beat us by 10. They weren't missing 3s because of our defense.
We can beat most teams in the AAC with that defense but we will get upset by 1 or 2 and not go very far in the NIT playing like that.
Tighten that up however, and we have a chance at the big tourney. Going to be fun (and stressful) the next few months. And I'm very happy with that! Now that we have a fball program again, I can almost spend the whole year distracted by SMU sports. (FB season -> bball season -> FB spring training/game -> recruiting news- > repeat)