"I think we have a special group," said Boozer, the reigning Gatorade National Player of the Year. "I think we're very overlooked right now, but once the season starts, that'll change for sure... we’re going to be in a spot to get [to the Final Four] just like they did last year."
It's a strange new world for the CHL; they tried their damnedest not to lose kids to the AHL and the AHL did their best to accommodate for them, but then the NCAA made it's wacky world of transfer portals, NIL, and semi-expanding list of power teams available to the CHL players.
One thing that's definitely going to change, and I don't think it's talked a lot about in basketball, is the no COVID year. In our case, we had a number of players in my three years at Xavier that were exercising their fifth year. It's a year that doesn't exist right now.