Last season I titled the season preview, ‘Make Us Feel Alive Again.’
And it took them a while, but for a brief moment they did. The team got off to an incredibly slow start, and struggled with the most difficult schedule in school history. They lost a program-record 21 games. But there were signs of life. Impressive freshman campaigns from Ayo Dosunmu and Giorgi Bezshanishvili kept spirits afloat during a dismal 4-12 beginning. A four-game conference winning streak highlighted by a shocking upset of top-10 Michigan State at the State Farm Center was the glimmer of hope the fan base needed.