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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 3294779, member: 405"]
If Hughes decided to come back, for some reason (I know, I know, we do this every year ...), I think we could be an outstanding team next year.  If you think about it from Hughes' point of view, yes, he will have his degree, and yes, he could start earning money a year earlier.

But in my long time being a fan, there is an undeniable fact that players on the best teams get rated higher for draft purposes than players on poor teams. It happens every year.  He's probably nowhere on the draft boards right now, but if he matched this kind of season next year, and we won 25 games and competed for ACC honors, then he certainly would be a mid-first round pick, in my opinion.

This year, Hughes has kind of shown the ACC that he's one of the top 5 players in the conference, but because Jordan Nwora and Louisville are having an outstanding year, he'll likely be the ACC MVP and a top 10-ish pick in the draft (sorry, haven't looked it up).

If he were coming back next year with all the publicity he would get, and if we returned the entire lineup, and somebody like Carey decided to come back, or Goodine made a jump, then I think we are looking at a Top 4 ACC team and a Top 4 line in the tournament next year.
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