A year ago head coach Nate Oats held an open scrimmage before his first college basketball game as a head coach. For the first time we saw the team that went on to win the program’s second consecutive MAC Championship in action. That scrimmage brought many concerns to the forefront of the conversation because it simply looked awful. There wasn’t a lot of offense and the team chemistry was lacking for a Bulls squad that was a mere shell compared to the one that had won a MAC title months before.
The giant learning curve as a team doesn’t seem to be the case this year.