sure I can. On average, you would expect a basketball player's stats to decrease as the strength of the opponent increases.
Our schedule this year would be the equivalent of playing the 56th ranked team 31 times.
Our schedule last year would be the equivalent of playing the 75th ranked team 32 times.
If our player's stats stayed the same year to year that would represent a marked improvement. They decreased slightly across the board for the sophomores making it difficult to say whether their was slight improvement, no improvement, or slight regression.