The schedule will be fine. Home against Rutgers is at least Q2, possibly Q1. At Georgia is also likely Q2. Our SEC/ACC challenge opponent will be another good opportunity, don't think it's been announced yet. Still think we owe Xavier a road game at some point which will be Q1 if it's this year.
Our metrics weren't bad last year because the non-conference SOS was bad, the metrics were bad because we lost to mediocre/bad teams and beat other bad teams by single digits or buzzer beaters. Translation, we weren't that good and the metrics had us ranked correctly. This schedule will also be fine, we just have to be better.