First, a confession. Perhaps you noticed, or perhaps you didn’t, that this site assiduously avoided covering UGA mens basketball in any serious fashion for most of last season. It didn’t just slip our minds. It was a conscious decision, a bitter decision. You see, we wrote basketball posts for awhile, but they weren’t fun to create and they weren’t fun to read. Because UGA basketball in the waning days of the Tom Crean era wasn’t fun. It was a torturous trudge toward a bad ending that we all saw coming months away, not least of all the players who abandoned ship long before the 2021-2022 season began.