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[QUOTE="General20, post: 2524300, member: 724"]
They'd be right on the edge of the top 10, probably 1oth, with Thorpe and Thompson.

I dont think they'd be the 10th best team in college basketball, just ranked 1oth (they had a pretty favorable schedule this year).

Here is the reason I say this ...

There are 2 teams currently in the top 10 with 7 losses.  Take away all of SU's losses to the best teams on their schedule (Kansas, Duke, North Carolina, Virginia) and take away any other game they lost big (Boston College).  Now just look at games they lost at the very end against bad teams because they couldn't score.  There are 6.  OT to St. Bonaventure, 2OT to Florida St, Wake Forest, Georgia Tech, Notre Dame, and NC State.

Gino Thorpe was a 16 ppg sorer last year who could hit 3's (don't go by the injured version you of him you saw with Syracuse, in this fantasy he's playing healthy for us).  Thompson would have easily been a 15ppg scorer as well.  He would have hurt us defensively, but Boeheim could have subbed him situationally with Moyer when we were scoring and needed the extra D.  I don't think its a stretch, at all, to say those two guys (and you, know, actually being able to bench some of our guys without needing to play Dolezaj at center or play a walk-on) could account for 6 points per game more than we were able to produce without them.  Add those 6 extra points per game and we beat all 6 of the above mentioned bad teams we had close losses against.  That leaves SU with a record of 26-7 which puts them right around 10th in the country ... maybe a 3 seed.
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