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[QUOTE="Jasoncuse, post: 1981443, member: 470"]
Well, i'd love to be wrong. I hope to come back to this thread and see my comment/prediction and be super happy to be wrong.

But...

This team is not good. Yes, we lost to two good teams, but we got our lunches handed to us. We got abused, exposed and then Wisconsin pooped on our graves trying to get Hayes a triple double. This team has little to no offensive identity, few players that can get their own shot in an offense that requires it and have a zone defense that will get better (by default) with kids that have little to no experience in it.

If this team doesn't show drastic improvement on both ends, I find it hard to believe this team will even compete for a bid, let alone get in. We won't have early season wins over tourney teams to fall back on and we have a ridiculously tough ACC to look forward to. I see us winning 7-9 games in conference, which won't be enough. For this team to make a run and grab a bid we need to get the guards to figure out their defensive roles and for our back line to actually prevent easy looks. We need AW3, Lydon and maybe Battle to really, really step up offensively and carry this squad. This is a team that will look fantastic against mid-majors and lower, but against the big boys, I don't think we have the right guns.
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