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Message: [QUOTE="oldhusky, post: 3958349, member: 9844"] I do think our fans sometimes forget that other teams get better too. Neither Stanford or South Carolina were peaking this last season. Early in the year many were forecasting the next couple of years might be Uconn, Stanford and South Carolina separating themselves from the rest of the field, kind of like Oregon, South Carolina and Baylor did the year before. Those projections were based on sound reasoning, Uconn had a great freshmen class, no graduating seniors, and another great class coming in. South Carolina had the great recruiting class the year before, minimal graduation losses next year, and another big recruiting class like Uconn coming next year. Stanford had a great sophomore (Jones) a great freshmen (Brink) a ton of quality bigs and supporting players, some significant incoming recruits and not much outgoing. Those three teams for the next couple of years looked to be at another level. What has changed I think is the activity in the transfer portal and the extra year of eligibility. Several teams in the next tier used these resources to approach the level of the top 3. Maryland and North Carolina State got back in the conversation by returning seniors with the extra year of eligibility, Louisville made major additions via the portal etc. I still think the big three are ahead of them, but now the difference is far less and there might be 6 or 7 true national championship contenders. In fact many teams will be better than it appeared they were going to be before the extra year of eligibility was granted. We might have a hundred or more returning seniors competing for the same number of spots. So we will be better, no doubt, but so will South Carolina, Stanford should be just as good, and several teams have pulled themselves into the top team discussion because of transfers and returning seniors. I think we start at the top, but while we might be say 10 points a game better than most ranked teams, I think there are probably a half dozen or so we need to worry about quite a bit. Time will tell. [/QUOTE]

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