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Message: [QUOTE="RF2044, post: 1926852, member: 40"] I chalk it up to lazy sports writing, and going with the devil they know. UVa is coming off of a strong couple of years, so they bump up a bit in terms of perception. All most sports writers know about us is that we lost our top three scorers. USA Today published their annual college basketball preview on Friday, and they had us picked to finish 10th in the ACC. [U]TENTH[/U]! The only way that is even remotely explainable is for whoever compiled the rankings to not be familiar with the personnel we added, at all, which is lazy sports writing. Humorously, they also had an article about Andrew White, amongst many other articles comprising the hoops preview. In that article, the writer referred to SU as a national title contender. So, in the article we are a NC contender, but in the ratings they have us as the 10th best team in our conference. Sounds like one writer was a bit more informed than the other. [/QUOTE]