The Cougar basketball team has been gaining talent to attempt an NCAA Tournament appearance for the first time since 2010 after a first-round exit from the National Invitation Tournament last season.
Losing popular forward Danrad “Chicken” Knowles to graduation and shooting guard Damyean Dotson to the New York Knicks in a second-round draft left sizable holes in the roster. But there are quite a few returning players that will try to pick up where they left off last year.
Redshirt senior guard Rob Gray Jr. will try to lead the American Athletic Conference in scoring for the second year in a row.