I'm sitting in a cubicle in downtown DC, waiting patiently for the next two hours to go by so I can go to the Orange party at Clyde's.  To kill the time, I was just reading a Washington Post preview of the game and came across this quote:

Picked to finish eighth in the 16-team Big East (just behind Georgetown), Syracuse (16-1, 4-0) now sits atop the conference standings and is ranked eighth nationally. In Thompson's view, the Orange is even better: "one 60-foot basket away" from being No. 1 in the country...

I had never thought of that before.  The more I think about it, as much as I hate to say it, JTIII might be right.  We've played a more impressive non-conference schedule than the Panthers.  Would our wins over Florida, Kansas, and Memphis have been enough to place us above Pitt's preseason hype?

I think so.  Damn you, Cleveland State!