Know Your Non-conference Opponent: Niagara

Guess that two-sport star! Rich Barnes-USA TODAY Sports Maybe this is the season things get back to normal? I’ll be honest, probably not. I’ve been keeping an ear to the ground, and it doesn’t sound like things are going to be a ton better this year than they were last year. Still, forward we go. There will be basketball in Cintas this year, and the first team to come in will be the Purple Eagles of Niagara.

For whatever you can draw from the 2020-21 season, it’s probably reasonable to infer that Niagara was not particularly good. They played one KenPom A-tier game and got clubbed in it, falling by 30 to Syracuse. At no point in the season did they sport an above-.500 record, though they did…