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Message: [QUOTE="Henny & Coke, post: 1157240, member: 323"] [U][B]Short answer:[/B][/U] You're most likely wrong. Why? Well, mostly because of this - (from John Gasaway's SU 2013-14 Team Preview) "[B]the program hasn't entered the NCAA tournament seeded lower than No. 4 since the (George W.) Bush administration[/B]." In fact, I'm wondering if you even realize that the kind of season you're predicting (22 or less wins) last happened to SU [B][U]7 years ago[/U],[/B] when the 07-08 team went 21-14. And that 07-08 team is the only SU team in the last [U][B]15 years[/B][/U] that finished a season with less than 23 wins. [B][U]So you're suggesting that the 2014-15 SU team will fail to reach 23 wins for just the second time in the past 16 seasons?[/U][/B] Do you realize this? Do you realize that the last 5 SU teams won an average of [U][B]29.8 games[/B][/U] per season?[B] [U]So you're suggesting that the 2014-15 SU team will fail to come within 8 wins of their 5 year average?[/U][/B] You really see that much reason to go against multiple data points (SU's recent history of results) that all suggest that Syracuse Basketball, year in & year out, will be a top 25ish team and a top seed in the NCAA Tournament when all is said and done? What are these reasons? Major upheaval in the coaching staff? Have we already suffered major injuries to players who were planned to be integral to the season? Major suspensions? Honestly, if you are at all aware of SU's recent history of results/success (aka, many of the statistics I lay out above) and you still truely believe that SU will win only 20-22 games this season (and, thus, deviate [I][B]GREATLY[/B][/I] from that recent history of success)...then either you are privy to some shocking information about this year's team that I just do not have...or I greatly question your ability to honestly & objectively evaluate a team's prospect for success in an upcoming season, given the information we know about that team. [/QUOTE]

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