I guess it's never too early for these. Charlie Creme just released his first bracket since the season ended. He has us hosting as the 3 seed in one of the Sacramento regionals, with Texas as our #1 seed. Surprisingly, at least to me, is the wolpfack is the highest ACC seed, getting a 2 seed. He has 13 Big Ten, 11 ACC and 9 SEC teams in the field, with UNC, dook, ND, Louisville and wolpfack all hosting.
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Why is it surprising that the wuffies are ranked highly? They seem like they may be the team to beat in the ACC this season, as much as I hate to say it. They really reloaded with Pierre
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Pierre is indeed great, but much like us, they lose probably their 3 best players. Definitely 3 of their best 4.
NCSU finished last year ranked 15th by RPI, but 9th in the AP Poll despite a mild upset in the round of 16. That top 10 finish seemed high. Yet Creme has NCSU moving up to a top being a top 8 team as a 2 seed. Is Pierre that good?
Of course you can make the same arguments about UNC: the 3 seed seems high considering our losses.
We are seeing the attrition across the NCAA associated with the last COVID year class graduating at the same time as the first post-COVID 4th year seniors, so maybe our attrition and NCSU's attrition, looks like everyone else's attrition too? I am not tracking these top 25 team rosters to see how much everyone else is also losing.
That is the only explanation I can see.
Look folks, do not get caught up in the Pre-seasoning predictions. They games will have to be played on the court. If we go out there and take care of business than they stuff won't matter. CB said it best, we have to win all of our games and take one game at a time. If we do that than who knows where this team will be seated when tournament time comes.