College basketball also is the easiest to see your season flip. Unlike football, you lose 1-2 guys in basketball (we lost 6 including redshirts) and you are in world of hurt.
Sure you only play with 5 but you only get 13 scholarships so you lose nearly 8% of your scholarship players every time you lose one. In football you get 85 scholarships and lose 1.1% every injured player. Could you imagine if a football team lost 39 guys to redshirt/injury/suspension? That’s the equivalent of what happened to us with basketball.