The season starts tonight. As you probably know, pre-season expectations, at least among the media, are pretty low. Most prognostications that we’ve seen have the Razorbacks picked dead last in the SEC West. I’m more optimistic than that, but, then again, I’m … ugh, slightly biased. We’re young and small, but I think we have enough talent to surprise some people.

Just to start off the discussion, I’ll throw out my destined-to-be-horribly-wrong prediction: I say the Hogs will finish the regular season with an 18-11 mark (8-8 in the SEC) and wind up in the NIT.

What do you say?