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Sorry, CHCard but by using your metric I think you prove my point. How many teams besides Stanford have five top 100 players on their current rosters? I'm guessing not more than 15, and I bet that only a few of them have three top 100 players in their third or fourth year in the program. The time for excuses is over. This team should make the second weekend of the NCAA tournament, and I really, really hope it does.

I'm completely in agreement that we've severely underachieved given our talent level.  I thought that this group had turned the corner with the NIT win a few years ago, and my expectations were to be something like a 6-7 seed last year and a top 4-5 seed this year.  I don't think that this group is talented enough to be a true national contender (unless we had landed a phenom freshman) since I don't think that we have the 1-2 mid-high 1st round prospects that you typically need to get to that level in basketball.

Corresponding to earning a seed in the 4/5 range, I would have been happy with a Sweet 16 exit and a bit disappointed (but not devastated) at a round of 32 exit.  At the rate this team is going, i think we'll be lucky to win our first round matchup.  If this was an isolated year of underperformance, I could accept that, but underperformance has been a general trend of Dawkins' teams.

[czaja]

Sorry, CHCard but by using your metric I think you prove my point. How many teams besides Stanford have five top 100 players on their current rosters? I'm guessing not more than 15, and I bet that only a few of them have three top 100 players in their third or fourth year in the program. The time for excuses is over. This team should make the second weekend of the NCAA tournament, and I really, really hope it does.

I'm completely in agreement that we've severely underachieved given our talent level.  I thought that this group had turned the corner with the NIT win a few years ago, and my expectations were to be something like a 6-7 seed last year and a top 4-5 seed this year.  I don't think that this group is talented enough to be a true national contender (unless we had landed a phenom freshman) since I don't think that we have the 1-2 mid-high 1st round prospects that you typically need to get to that level in basketball.

Corresponding to earning a seed in the 4/5 range, I would have been happy with a Sweet 16 exit and a bit disappointed (but not devastated) at a round of 32 exit.  At the rate this team is going, i think we'll be lucky to win our first round matchup.  If this was an isolated year of underperformance, I could accept that, but underperformance has been a general trend of Dawkins' teams.