Entering the 2015-2016 season, expectations were high on the Mesa. The Aztecs featured veteran leadership, a potential lottery pick, talented freshman and sophomores and a non-conference schedule that featured games against, Utah, Cal, West Virginia and Kansas. Win one or two of those and avoid any bad losses, and a seventh straight bid to the NCAA Tournament was all but a certainty.
Unfortunately, that’s not how the season played out.
While the team would notch a resume building win against a tournament bound team in Cal, they would suffer two bad home losses to Little Rock (49-43) and Grand Canyon (52-45) and one catastrophic neutral court loss to cross town rival USD (53-48).