We think the basketball season is going to happen now, so let's talk about it! We tackle the projections that show IU on the fringes of the top 25, the media projections that show Indiana squarely in the middle of the pack, and then try to evaluate what to make out of all that. There's a lot of interesting questions surrounding this program right now --- recruiting, player development, in-conference comparisons to other programs, and the arrow of time. There's a glass-half-full picture of this program, but is it the lens that fans should be viewing the program through? And in the year of COVID 2020, can we draw any meaningful conclusions about the program's trajectory? We explore.