It was a good season indeed for the Jays and unfortunately they had nothing for the Zags there at the end. MZ could only carry the team so far and when your outside weapons go ice cold (MB), it's tough. But that is about what had been written about CU from the get-go. Sandhills, I'm not sure I'd agree with "deepest..most talented" in Jay history, and I don't recall hearing or reading that anywhere. This was good roster... but maybe not even as good as last year with Tyshon A and certainly not deeper. They got to the Sweet 16 because they played hard as a team and MZ was special. They were expected to compete for, but not win the conference and was it disappointing that they finished poorly against GTown in the conference tourney final. This year, they scratched and clawed quite a bit and won some games maybe they shouldn't have and lost some they should have won. Other than Mitchell, they got inconsistent play out of their bench . Kalkbrenner is frosh and though contributed during the season, was still pretty green and that showed in the tourney. They needed to get more out of A . Jones and Alex O'Connell, but those guys just couldn't get over the hump and show they could actually score. Both looked very athletic while missing about every jump shot or layup they took. Not sure I'd qualify that as deep and loaded.
At any rate, I was proud the Jays this season, and I think this team played together well and won a lot of games due to that and their hard work, and certainly not due to being a deep roster of NBA hopefuls. Next year will be interesting. No doubt they will be a different team even if MZ unexpectedly sticks around.
