A season that at times showed promise fizzled with a fury on Tuesday as OSU basketball fell 65-59 in overtime to North Texas in the NIT, raising questions about what went wrong and how Mike Boynton and his staff can make things right moving forward. A loss in the NIT isn’t enough to raise alarm bells, of course, but failing to make the NCAA Tournament — and struggling to field a competent offense — certainly adds to the challenge OSU faces this offseason.
So let’s dissect with an offseason checklist — a season postmortem if you will — to recap what went wrong and how things can be righted.