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[QUOTE="Henny & Coke, post: 1332866, member: 323"]
Just a general note/thought:  I know I'm prone to letting the most recent results (too heavily) influence my thinking when making predictions about upcoming seasons (known as "recency bias"), and, in this case, such thinking may really skew our opinion to the negative, considering:

The last 7 games of the season were against opponents ranked:

#4  (Duke - RPI of 3)
#12  (Louisville - RPI of 16)
N/A  (Pitt - RPI of 65)
#9  (Notre Dame - RPI of 24)
#4  (Duke - RPI of 3)
#2  (Virginia - RPI of 4)
N/A  (NC State - RPI of 44)

That's 5 teams ranked within the top 12 schools in the country!  Average RPI of these schools is 23.

Plus, all of this happened while Syracuse was dealing with NCAA investigation/sanctions/self-imposed Tournament ban.

So, we may want to keep all that in mind when trying to project how certain players will perform in seasons to come & try not to let the most recent performances (that may have been skewed negatively for the above noted reasons) have an out-sized impact on our thinking.  Just my 2 cents.
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