You start and play our 5 studs: Schooch, KD, CC, DP, KP and let Big Steve,DD, and X come off the bench. I think we reduce our rotation to 8 and let our upper class guys lead us back to the tourney.
Going small can give you matchup problems in college basketball, especially with the rule changes. Anybody notice that
Xavier starts Trevon Bluiett (6'5") at PF? They do this because he creates mismatches all over the court. We had great success with DP and KP and no reason to think why not do it again.
Dont overthink things. DP is our best player and lets ride him all the way to another March run.