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[QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 1045064, member: 716"]
Same for 2012, to some extent (they were preseason top-ten and went to the Elite Eight).

The inconsistency bothers me; the more I think about it, a more interesting piece would have involved a subjective ranking based on the eye test.

Waters is someone who watches a lot of basketball and has access to this program at a level that 99% of us don't have. Why not do a list, then, based on things that we can't identify? Give us some basketball analysis, tell us why one team's good and why another team is better. This whole enterprise just smacks of Bleacher Report; it's blurbs and statistics that anyone could have thrown together (with a little bit of baseless subjectivity [SU would have won the Michigan State game "going away" had it not been played in Michigan; Alabama was "very good" in 2004; our 1995 team was so "close to being great," as if that has nothing to do with how we played in the 30 games he watched] sprinkled in for good measure). In this current form, the list could have been assembled not just by someone who doesn't know anything about basketball but by someone who didn't watch many of the Syracuse games at all. Write like an expert, Mike; give examples, write in specifics rather than generalities.
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