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Message: [QUOTE="Knicks411, post: 1135021, member: 767"] Just due to the nature of college basketball, with all of the turnover, a lot of these rankings (especially with Gasaway) are going to be based heavily on recent history, as well as the personnel returning. We had the 13th ranked defensive efficiency last year; 8th the year prior, 17th before that; a top 10 finish doesn't seem crazy. Christmas was the anchor of the defense last year, he's still here. Cooney did do a great job of playing the passing lanes (as did Ennis, though really, our guards have excelled at steals for the last 4 or 5 years at this point) and there are still plenty of long armed guys at the back of the defense. The sample size is very small, so I don't want to draw too much from it, but Roberson had better block and defensive rebounding rates than CJ or Jerami last year. This is def one i can buy, plus or minus a few spots. [/QUOTE]