There are teams everywhere that do that with their schedule. Nowadays, you have to be able to recruit the kids on your own campus, and winning 7-8 games and making the playoffs every year helps (unfortunately). I think scheduling soft will always lead to early exits, so I don’t see MJ making a deep run until they play tougher competition. They are plenty good enough to make the playoffs in their region, so what’s the difference in being 7-3 and hosting a playoff game but having played a few good teams or 9-1 and getting dog-walked early and often? I don’t know…maybe somebody smarter than I am knows something I don’t