Five Questions that will be Answered During the 2015-16 College Basketball Season
Recruiting is going well enough for Tony Bennett to smile a bit. – Robert Deutsch-USA TODAY Sports
Who is Ready to Finally Break Through into the Final Four?
How many more seasons are we going to be teased by the Arizona Wildcats, Gonzaga Bulldogs and Virginia Cavaliers?
We see them in the Top 10 or Top 15 every season, watch them finish the regular season strong with 30 win seasons, only to get to the NCAA Tournament and come up just short of the Final Four.
Arizona head coach Sean Miller has another team that is very capable of a deep NCAA Tournament run.
He is going to be able to mix upperclassmen such as 7-footer Kaleb Tarczewski, and 6-foot-3 guard Gabe York, and senior transfer forward Ryan Anderson from Boston College, with a solid recruiting class headlined by Allonzo Trier and Chance Comanche.
The Wildcats are going to sorely miss forward Ray Smith this upcoming season. Smith tore his ACL and will be out for the 2015-16 season.
Arizona will still have plenty of capable depth that will allow them to be highly competitive this season.
It is just a matter of the Arizona Wildcats finally getting into the Final Four under Sean Miller who has proven himself to be one of the best in the business.
Gonzaga is going to be breaking in a new backcourt this season to go along with one of the best frontlines in college basketball.
Losing experienced guards like Gary Bell, Kevin Pangos, and Byron Wesley is going to hurt the Bulldogs, but they have enough backcourt depth with Silas Melson, Kyle Drangins, Eric McClellan and Bryan Alberts.
This team is going to go as far as Kyle Wiltjer, Domantas Sabonis and Przemek Karnowski can take them and hopefully that will be into the Final Four, because Mark Few has been knocking on the door of that breakthrough forever.
Same with the most stout defensive basketball team in the nation, the Virginia Cavaliers.
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Head Coach Tony Bennett has his system firmly in place with UVA and they have become not only one of the toughest outs in the country, but one of the cream of the crop in the ACC.
Even though The Wahoos are going to lose Justin Anderson from last years’ 30 win team, Malcolm Brogdon, London Perrantes, Mike Tobey and Anthony Gill are going to bring plenty of experience with which to lead this team.
They are ranked No.6 in the AP Poll for a reason. But at this point it is not about being ranked high during the regular season, it is about finally seeing the work that this team has put in pay off in Final Four dividends.
These three teams have teased us for quite some time now, and it would be great to see them finally have a shot at the National Championship.
These coaches have done an outstanding job with their programs.
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