On ESPN.com (our favorite site)

Of the big 6 conferences only 2 are competitive year in and year out the big 10 and the big east, in the big 12 its always Kansas, sec Florida or kentucky Acc duke and north carolina pac 12 ucla and arizona big 10 ohio st mich st purdue wisconsin occasionally illinois and mich, big east louisville , connecticut, syracuse , pitt , villanova, georgetown West virginia occasionally notre dame.

SU does NOT need a blowout to boost their confidence. They would begin to feel invincable and should win by walkin gout on the court. Always a down fall. No, having to scrape for wins with good defense and timely offense is just what this team needs. Confidence that they can get the job done but knowing it take hard work to do it.

You are looking at this as a glass half-empty. The glass half-full part is that basketball, like all endeavors, is a game best played when confident (not cocky or "invincable" [sic]). Confident that you can stop your man, get that rebound, nail that 3-pointer, beat your defender, make that free throw. Having to "scrape" for wins is nice, but it is an admission that you don't have better athletes than the other team, and you are forced to play a game of strength of will, not athleticism. At that point you are not playing to win, but playing not to lose - a huge difference in attitude. A team with better athletes can always use this as Plan B. But Plan A should be to be confident, and play by play, demolish the other team with a killer instinct, a swagger. Calipari knows how to get his guys to do that, as does Coach K. It is not a strength of JB.

yeah, that idiot Bilas only looks at margin of victory and is swayed by potential NBA star power. He never does any real analysis of the teams before he ranks them. what a hack.