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Interesting. You think so? NCAA team means you're top 40. We've had four NCAA teams the last ten years. Those were all pretty good teams, yet we were a loss or two or three from missing out on the tourney with all those teams. I can easily see this team being two or three losses worse than last year's.
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I like BYU's team a lot. I expect them to win the conference without too much trouble. Their real risk is early, before everyone knows their role and the rotation gets tight. Other than that, they are dangerous. Their biggest position drop off will be PG. At PF they will go from Keena to Tavernari and I think we will see similar but slightly less production from Tav. Burgess at the 2 will allow Cummard to play offense because he won't have to play perimeter D against the opponents best offensive player every night. Plaisted won't be much improved but he will be improved.
Utah has a great shot as the only team to challenge BYU. Coaching is paramount in hoops and Utah had bad coaching issues last year. Their talent level is good and with good coaching they will do well. I expect them to have losses in the early MWC season that cost them the title but they will probably beat BYU late. UNLV lost a lot of talent but I like Kruger as a coach and their soph. pg from Tav's HS is talented enough to help them through the loss of Kruger Jr. Alford's Big Ten background in hoops will prove to be an advantage because he'll find out that the MWC is similar in many respects to the old Big Ten. He has very good talent on his team but cohesion will cost them too many road games. Wyoming will stand next with great guard play and big men who wouldn't make it at the Y or the U as walk-ons. SDSU coaching is once again paramount but on the wrong side. SDSU has talent but their system sucks. AFA is back to losing lots of games. CSU as bad as they were last year with an NBA player on roster they will be predictably worse this year. I do like their skinny big man though. TCU, I can't say enough bad about them and their program.
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