The Wildcats (11-6) have played themselves back in the NCAA Tournament conversation, but there's a lot of work to do.
men’s basketball season started with a bit of a nosedive. The Wildcats lost three of their first five games, including a home loss vs. a Columbia team that scored 90 points.
The Big East doesn’t seem as strong this season, but Lunardi thinks that record is a good target for the Wildcats.“If you’re a bubble team you look at that as an opportunity. It would be pretty hard to go 13-7, even in this Big East, and not make it.” The aforementioned home game vs. St. John’s on Feb. 12 is a big one, too. In a way, they all are. Can’t lose at Xavier on Tuesday and then come back home and lose to Providence on Friday night. Can’t get swept by Georgetown.As of Monday, Lunardi said 28 of his 37 at-large spots were going to schools in three conferences: the Big Ten, the Big 12, and the SEC. Those numbers will come down, he said, because those teams are beating up on one another.
As for the basketball team itself, there’s a lot of work to do, but getting to the tournament for the first time since a Final Four run in 2022 is far from impossible.
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