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[QUOTE="orangecuse, post: 3711264, member: 668"]
I'll bite.  When I look at 3 of those 4, UK, Duke & Kansas, I see schools that have been highly ranked come January, chasing regular season conference titles, high seeds in their respective conference tournaments, high seeds in the Dance, along with very good odds of winning it all.

We have not been ranked come January 1st since 2014. That alone should speak for itself.  We haven't chased regular season conference titles since our inception into the league, nor have we been high seeds in our conference tourney either, something we were quite accustomed to in the Big East.  It took us 5 seasons before we got our 1st ACC tournament victory, and that came against an average at best Wake team.  Our overall ACC conference record hovers around .500, if you don't think that is mediocrity relative to our conference peers so be it, but that's your thinking and the minority view.  We have been a consistent bubble team/double digit seed in the Dance the season's we have sneaked in.

No doubt that the 2016 miraculous NCAA tourney run was spectacular, albeit unforeseen, especially as a 10 seed.  If you recall, many thought we were out of the Dance that season based upon our mediocre conference record, along with losing to Pitt 3 times that season, including the believed at the time ACC tournament play-in-game against them.  That feat in 2016 seemingly masked the deficiencies we had then, temporarily, as now we are 5 seasons removed and nothing has really changed other than; [I]the more things change, the more they stay the same[/I] relative to Syracuse basketball lately.
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