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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 2053850, member: 27"]
Syracuse has a chance to be a really unique candidate for an NCAA bid.

The team was horrible during the OOC portion of the schedule.  But it has a chance to be a top 30 team in the conference portion of the schedule.

What to do when you are in effect looking at two completely different teams?  If you count an ACC conference championship game, the conference portion of the schedule constitutes over 59% of the schedule (19 of 32).  If SU goes on a road in the ACC tournament, it will only go up.

SU could well finish 6th or 7th in a conference that gets 12 bids.

What to do in this kind of a situation?

As others are saying, it won't be sufficient to finish with better numbers than 4 or 5 ACC schools.  SU has to finish in the upper half of the conference to overcome the awful OCC results.

Going 11-7 in conference play in this conference makes it almost impossible to leave Syracuse out.
I think they might sneak in with a 10-8 record and a win or two in the ACC tournament.  That would mean they piled up so many good wins it will be really hard to ignore them.

If this happens, the howls from the mid range defenders will largely be directed at Syracuse again.  In that case, I bet the team will do well in the NCAA tourament and embarrass a lot of  'experts'.  Again.

As Syracuse keeps piling up ACC wins, Lunardi must be sticking pins in Andrew White III dolls and reading books about black magic.  How much longer will anyone listen to him as he continues to show he knows nothing about college basketball?
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