and the transfers that occured this Spring have put us in the position we're in. You ask "how do you go from a consistent top 5 program, from playing in the NC game the last two years, to being unranked".....there's your answer,

Vaughn is critical and Peoples is in reality a Top 5-10 recruit.
The Stanford transfer will distribute the ball adroitly. One key
is how much Gilbert can contribute.....

I think rankings are not what this team needs to pay attention to. If you think about it, how can you even rank a team that hardly has ever played together? If they can make it to the tourney with 8 recruited players and not have any injuries I think it will be a successful season.

I hope I'm wrong but I think we are in a 2 year rebuild before we can even think about top 10 again.

IF (and it is still an if) we get Clark and Maddy that will be five top 25/5 star players in 2 years. Add a couple of talented upperclassmen in Gilbert and Vaughn and that sound like a Top 10 team to me.

but last I heard, recruits for net year cant play this year.

But, this could be a very interesting season watching the team being put together and developing.