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I'm with standfan.  I believe we will finish with a better regular season record as well.  Part of this is that the Pac-12 will likely be down again. Aside from Arizona, who else in the Pac-12 brings back anything better?  Maybe UCLA, but they will rely on a bunch of unknown commodities too.  Reid Travis is an animal down low, as long as he doesn't get called for ticky-tack fouls, he will fill the rebounding void.  Defense might be a problem (not sure we can replace Huestis' perimeter defense and blocks), but our biggest advantage is team length.  Across the board, we should have a size advantage against most teams.  I'm excited to see Humphreys, I think he will be special, hopefully sooner rather than later.  I'm actually more worried about our perimeter shooting, as Randle and Brown can both be a bit streaky.  Pickens looks like a dead-eye shooter, but it's hard to rely on a freshman to step in and be a great shooter in the first year.  This will also be our second year in the triangle which should help with actually running an actual offense.  I just don't see us being in the bottom half of the Pac-12.

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I'm with standfan.  I believe we will finish with a better regular season record as well.  Part of this is that the Pac-12 will likely be down again. Aside from Arizona, who else in the Pac-12 brings back anything better?  Maybe UCLA, but they will rely on a bunch of unknown commodities too.  Reid Travis is an animal down low, as long as he doesn't get called for ticky-tack fouls, he will fill the rebounding void.  Defense might be a problem (not sure we can replace Huestis' perimeter defense and blocks), but our biggest advantage is team length.  Across the board, we should have a size advantage against most teams.  I'm excited to see Humphreys, I think he will be special, hopefully sooner rather than later.  I'm actually more worried about our perimeter shooting, as Randle and Brown can both be a bit streaky.  Pickens looks like a dead-eye shooter, but it's hard to rely on a freshman to step in and be a great shooter in the first year.  This will also be our second year in the triangle which should help with actually running an actual offense.  I just don't see us being in the bottom half of the Pac-12.