Last season, the Collins-Maxwell-Baxter boys basketball team began to show some signs of promise as the season went along.

Now, a year later, that promise has turned into expectation as a young Raiders squad is preparing to show exactly how far it has come from the group of talented underclassmen they showed themselves to be last season.

Returning all but one starter and two seniors overall, the Raiders likely will send plenty of youth to the floor, but that youth has generated plenty of buzz in the CMB communities.