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This team is soft and shows zero resolve. It consistently gets outhustled and opponents are much more willing to stick their noses into scrums to fight for loose balls, offensive rebounds, and stop the ball on breakouts. That is an indictment of both coaching and recruiting. Like all good coaches, Mike Young made adjustments at halftime and Tech quickly made up the deficit.

And speaking of recruiting, Shrews' first class is just not good, outside of Burton. These were guy he picked before arriving at ND, so it's not like a class he had to rush to recruit. I would add that Carey Booth now sits on the Illinois bench for entire games.

Given the state of college basketball, I would not rest easy assuming that Burton will be back, nor even Davis. Let that sink in for a moment. That would mean that Shrews would have to find some outstanding transfers, which would run directly counter to how he planned to build the program, for Haralson to be a superstar from the outset, for a skinny Brady Koehler to be a double-digit scorer and a rebounder as a freshman, and for a freshman pivot, Tommy Ahneman, to be able to step into the paint right away and put up numbers. I don't foresee any of those things happening. If Burton and Davis leave, next season could be the worst of Shrews' three seasons.