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[QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 2929878, member: 716"]
Nah.

I agree with the last part - teams that lost 9 games in the 28-game-regular-season era would lose 10+ today. You've got to have a clean non-conference schedule and be a good team to get through with single-digit losses. Those who don't (2013, 2009) aren't going to do it, even though they're pretty good.

But the ACC is no stronger than the Big East during all but its weakest years, and our non-conference schedule isn't much different: we're playing old rivals...but they stink, we're playing the same mediocre preseason conference opponents...but we're losing to them (Oregon and UConn aren't any better than the Va. Tech/Stanford dreck we were playing a decade ago, to say nothing of the occasional Florida, North Carolina, Michigan State, Kansas teams). And we're losing to Old Dominion and Bonaventure now, while we weren't for most of the last 40 years. Boeheim's been playing the same RPI type game for at least a decade; the only thing that's changed is Syracuse. The basketball team isn't as good.
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