Vic Schaefer is in a unique situation as the basketball season begins today – unique for his time as Mississippi State’s head coach, anyway. He’s got, by most any measure, the best and most experienced team of his tenure with the Bulldogs, featuring four seniors and four juniors and a handful of players who have earned various All-SEC honors.
And that luxury creates his greatest challenge. The same young women who led MSU to the Sweet Sixteen last year, the ones who were behind the best season in school history, are the same ones Schaefer is depending on to out-perform themselves.