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Message: [QUOTE="Hey Adrien!, post: 3997873, member: 5787"] New tiers after Garcia transferring: #1: Nova #2-#4: Xavier, UConn, Seton Hall, #5-#8: Providence, Butler, Georgetown, Creighton #9-#10: Marquette, St. John's #11: DePaul [B]Trending up: Providence: [/B]I'm calling bias in my initial ranking. Put too much stock in David Duke going pro: Yes, he was their bucket-getter, but his 38.7 fg% makes me feel his 16.8 ppg can be "replaced" with a combination Allyn Breed's potential sophomore jump (5.5 ppg last year) and Indiana transfer Al Durham coming in (11.3p, 38 3p%). 60% of their scoring returns with the help of Nate Watson (16.9p, 6.7r) and Noah Horchler (6.7p, 5.7r, 41.9 3p%) returning for their extra year. South Carolina transfer Justin Minaya (7p, 6.3r, 1.8a) is a good plug-and-play replacement for Greg Gantt (4p, 3.1r). Hate to say it, but this team is better than I originally thought. [B]Butler: [/B]I bumped them up from #8 to #6. Not an exciting team, but they have six seniors (four of which are super-seniors) and return 93% of their scoring. Adding to the mix is versatile 6'8 Eastern Michigan grad transfer Ty Groce (15.2p, 6.9r, 2a, 1.3s, 34 3p%) while their highest rated '20 recruit, Scooby Johnson, will make his debut after sitting out last year w/ an ACL tear. Aaron Thompson can't shoot, but he's a poised, tough leader who might be the best perimeter defender in the Big East. [B]Trending down: Georgetown: [/B]I overhyped their incoming freshman class. They still can be a very good team, but they return just two players who averaged 10+ mpg last season (Dante Harris and Donald Carey). Only 27% of their scoring returns and it'll be hard to replace last year's leader Jahvon Blair (15.4 ppg) and starters Wahab and Pickett will be replaced by a freshman and two grad transfers. Will be an exciting team, though: an exciting freshman class led by Mohammed and Mutombo plus they bring in two interesting transfer pieces. [/QUOTE]

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