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Originally Posted by Archaea
That sounds like a gross over-statement.
Both UNLV and SDSU are one player away from joining them or replacing them.
NM has a nice team but compared to the good Tourney teams, looked slower than I had expected.
SDSU and UNLV have Tourney speed, but lack a consistent scorer. With Leonard and the additional transfer, look for SDSU to make the leap. I don't know what UNLV has in store but their coach can coach.
BYU is frustrating me with its horrid inside play. We either have adequate inside players or adequate guards but rarely both. So close, yet so far. We can almost taste respectability yet it's still outside our grasp.
I don't see UNM making the next step before the other two squads.
UW looked far more talented than its record would indicate. Where did that team come from?
I like St. Mary's and N. Iowa, as well as Cornell, for models of building a program without super athletes. But in each instance, it starts with superior interior play and at least one really, good guard.
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Washington was supposed to cake walk through the Pac 10 this year. It's very taleneted but very young. Romar is an unbelievable recruiter. But the team was very uneven, at loose ends until the last five games or so of the season and the Pac 10 tournament. Now I think West Virginia has its work cut out. Washington has the athletes and basketball players to stay with Kentucky. Darrington Hobson et al. got slammed by a freight train. Just feel lucky BYU didn't get a 6 seed and play Washington in the first round.