This feels like a season where we take plenty of lumps in the early season, then by the end of Big Ten play we're starting to look like a mid-tier team in the B1G. Then, if we can keep most of the team intact, we should be poised to challenge for top 6 (ish) in the B1G next season.
I hope I'm wrong, and this season proves to be better than my gut tells me. But I do strongly believe we'll be watching better overall basketball by January or February than we're used to seeing in the past 7-10 years.