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[QUOTE="DoctorBombay, post: 2423881, member: 626"]
The 2000-2001 team is my all-time personal favorite. Why? Low, no make that- NO EXPECTATIONS for that lineup of Preston Schumpert, MeShaun Williams, Allen Griffin, Damone Brown, and the irrepressible Billy Celuck at the 5-spot.
The prior year we’d lost to the Mateen Cleaves & The Flint Stones, Michigan State 
team in the Sweet 16, after squandering a big lead. Jason Hart and Etan Thomas had left and were not walking through that door!
But, w/ Griffin at the point and arguably the best shooter in SU history in Schumpert, we managed to go from unranked to #8 in the polls, and BEast Regular Season champs. If not for Schumpert getting poked in the eye by some Pitt thug during the BEast Tournament, we’d have won that too.
What i loved most was that no one, and i mean NO ONE thought that team would do so well. Celuck epitomized that team because he couldn’t run or jump a lick, was skinny and frail, very unathletic, yet he set great screens for his mates and played the middle of the zone perfectly.
JB’s best teams are the ones that start with low expectations and end up surprising us. I sense that this years team fits the mold, and IMO, the sky’s the limit as to how far they can go.
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