I'll disagree with Walt somewhat and if you recall, the last time I did that in basketball was when he said Letcher-Ellis would lead us in minutes played this season. I don't think we need a new big guy (although he's right we need to improve our rebounding and interior defense). We just need the guys we have to get stronger in the offseason, similar to what we saw with Koulechov from last year to this year.

If we can retain our players and coaches, I'm not too worried about the one scholarship we have available. I'd be fine with a transfer who has to sit out a year. But I think our biggest need is a point guard. Evans really needs to be playing the 2 guard spot. From what I can tell, the Houston area has a lot of really good juniors and it would be nice if we could get one of those better recruits in a year.

And by the way did anyone notice that yet another former Rice player (under Braun) will be playing for the new #1 team in the country (Gonzaga). Jeremy Jones doesn't play much for Gonzaga - and isn't even on scholarship there - but he does see some PT in all of their blowout wins. For those keeping track, that will be player #3 from the Braun era who ended up on a #1 team elsewhere (along with Dylan Ennis and Sean Obi although Obi has yet to play a single minute this season for Duke).