Wishful thinking?

Do we win the USD game with Kevin? Also, one wonders how much the injury affected his play during the UTPA game (28 mins 3-14, 0-3 3 pt, 8 pts). Oskars was out that game as well. Should we beat UTPA anyways? Yes.

If we won those 2 games would we be talking about the "state of the program".

It seemed to me Kevin had turned the corner after the UNLV/UK games. Perhaps he learned something in those games or something just finally clicked, but he had 3 games where he really produced. And even on the night he had an off night was 4-11 from the field he scored from the line instead. Admittedly it's a 3 game sample and one of the games was Portland Bible, but I thought he was finally turning into the player we expected a bit sooner.

Kevins stats for pre-injury games
UNF 33 min 9-13, 3-4 3 pt, 27 pts
CSB 4-11, 0-2 3 pt, 10-12 FT, 18 pts
Portland Bible 25 mins, 8-9, 2-3, 4-4, 22 pts
UK 28 mins, 4-14, 1-4, 2-2, 11 pts
UNLV 21 mins, 1-6, 0-1, 0-0, 2 pts
etc. prior games better than UK/UNLV, but not as good as after.

Bailey is at his best in the open court. He's an uptempo, transition type player. The coaching staff was seemingly doing a better job of finding ways to balance his style of play yet still create opportunities for the bigs that play best when we walk the ball up and play a half court game. I hope he has a speedy recovery because last night's game showed how difficult it is for us to create opportunities for our bigs when he's not in the line up.

Razor thin margin of error for this team.