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[QUOTE="Sherman20, post: 5002077, member: 6357"]
The team far exceeded expectations, at least when looking at KenPom:
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From Mike Waters’ mailbox:
[B]Mike:[/B]  I go back to the preseason when Ken Pomeroy, the noted college basketball statistician, projected that Syracuse would go 12-17. That prediction didn’t include second- and third-round games in the Maui Invitational because the opponents were unknown. The prediction at [URL='http://kenpom.com/']KenPom.com[/URL] eventually moved to 13-18 when SU played first Gonzaga and then Chaminade. Think about that. Syracuse was predicted by a recognizable and reputable source to go 13-18 this season.

…using [URL='http://kenpom.com/']KenPom.com[/URL], Syracuse flipped predicted losses to LSU, Georgetown, Oregon, Pittsburgh (twice), Miami, NC State (twice), Virginia Tech, at Louisville and North Carolina to wins.

Syracuse lost one game that [URL='http://kenpom.com/']KenPom.com[/URL] had down as wins in the preseason – Florida State.

I don’t know if any team in the country has out-performed its preseason prediction by as wide a margin as Syracuse has this season.
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