Its the national championship.
Look, we have all been bitten before by buying into the hype early (ahem football this year), but this is a team that has had, what, 5 players score 20 points in a game this year? And Morris is starting to consistently produce in the double digits as well, I wouldn't be surprised to see him do it either.
I honestly don't think that there is another team in the country that can boast having 6 players who could drop 20 on a given night. Add that to average or slightly above average defense, few turnovers, strong rebounding, and the offensive genius of CFH, and you have a team that can (though not necessarily will) win any given game and take a tournament over.
I am not expecting anything because of the nature of the sport and tourney and our unlucky history. But as an opposing coach, who do you key on? Try and stop Kane and Niang, Ejim, and Hogue will tear you up inside. Play close to the rim and any given player on the court will drop in a 3. If one or two guys are cold (as Niang and Hogue were tonight... neither scored much until later in the game) three more can step up. Oh, and our second unit is just as deadly with Morris and Long.
My only concern I have is our short bench. We played well in Maui, but playing multiple games back to back to back could cause issues. And if we get in foul trouble in any given game (it hasn't been a huge issue yet but it did nearly cost us at BYU), we could fall short. But outside of that, there is no reason to think that this team can't be cutting down the nets in early April. A whole lot of things would have to go right, but we have as good of a chance as any other team does to go the distance.
For now, though, I am much more concerned with pulling the conference title out of KU's death grip that they have had on it for the past decade. One goal at a time.
