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[QUOTE="Waltdods, post: 2352254, member: 2932"]
I mostly agree with you. I don't think next years team will be very good.

But there is something to the idea that jb has often over performed with teams that before the season don't look particularly good.

I think of the 97-98 team, which followed a season where Syracuse missed the NCAAs and then lost their best player (Otis hill). The most proven returning player was Todd burgan, who was not a particularly great basketball player. With hindsight we know etan, Jason hart and (to a lesser degree) Blackwell were great college players, but Thomas had been terrible as a freshman, hart barely average, and Blackwell was a transfer who had sat out they year before.

Just a few years after that, hart, Blackwell and Thomas all graduate, the best retuning player is Damone Browne and Syracuse still goes 25-9.

Another one is the 2006 team, which basically only returned gmac as a proven NCAA player. (If this wouldn't sidetrack everything I would argue battle is a better player than gmac). Warrick forth and pace had graduated, edelins long journey came to an end, and the rising junior class had been a huge disapppijtnmet so far. And the team still got a (admittedly undeserved) 5 seed.
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