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Message: [QUOTE="AZHuskiePop, post: 2742891, member: 1609"] You over estimate the top 25. That’s certainly within reach . I believe we were preseason top 25 two years ago . Last year with only two returning players we were unimpressive but unfeated battling MSU until Gilbert went down . Change that one result and as imperfect as last years team was at that moment in time a ranking was in our grasp. Sustaining that against the schedule we had was overly optimistic but rankings are a snapshot. We certainly have missing pieces as of now but we have 10 returning players . Almost all have experience against the best teams in the country That’s unheard of in today’s game One of those players is a top pick for conference player of the year. Every team has questions. Who in this basketball era goes into any season with a pat hand? I really can’t understand the lack of optimism on this years board for a team that on paper should be darn good. [/QUOTE]