I’ve never positioned myself with the participation ribbon crowd, but this was a season where everybody in college basketball was a winner.

Over the last three seasons, nobody started more games for Archie Miller at Indiana University than Justin Smith.

Olivier Sarr is not a guy whose playing time got cut as he went to the bench for a team that underachieved last season. Mark Pope got that player.

This one comes without second-guessing.

The Wildcats floundered against Ole Miss, a team that is on nobody’s projected 68-team NCAA bracket at this point in the season.