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Originally Posted by raybec 4
That would definitely be a super group. Those kids would give anybody in the NCAA a run for their money.
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The big question would be whether they could gel in time to get a top 5 seed.
It's just impossible to overstate how important seeding is. Getting a team through clean to the Sweet 16, especially a young one that needs to see some live fire, is enormous.
If that team comes out and goes .500 through non-con play, they're setting themselves up to have to scramble to get into the tournament at all. If they enter the conference slate at 6-6, they'd likely need to go 16-6 over the last 22 to get in and even that may not be enough.
That's the thing with these rebuilds when they get down to the studs; if you completely gut a team, you need them to get together in a HURRY or your margin for error has pretty well vanished. 16-6 is tough sledding even for a solid, veteran team. When you're looking at an extremely talented but extremely young team in a conference that has Kentucky and Florida, not to mention a hell of a lot of genuinely good coaches on lesser programs that could jump up and bite you at any time.
But man, get out at 10-2 and you're off to the races with a shot at a genuinely good seed.