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The Syracuse Orange basketball team surprised a lot of folks this season with their run to the Final Four. That was abundantly clear when Syracuse.com shared their preseason predictions from back in November and everyone overpredicted their regular-season record and under-predicted their post-season run.
That got us thinking about our predictions and how terrible they must have been. So we took a look...
Prognosticator: Sean Keeley
Record: 22-9 (11-7)
NCAAT: 6th seed, Round of 32
Prognosticator: Andy Pregler
Record: 20-11 (9-9)
NCAAT: 5th seed
Prognosticator: Andrew Carey
Record: 21-10 (10-8)
NCAAT: 5th seed, Elite Eight
Prognosticator: John Cassillo
Record: 22-9 (11-7)
NCAAT: 7th seed, Round of 32
Prognosticator: Dan Lyons
Record: 21-10 (10-8)
NCAAT: 5th seed, Sweet Sixteen
Prognosticator: Kenny Lacy
Record: 23-8 (12-6)
NCAAT: 4th seed, Elite Eight
Prognosticator: Kevin Wall
Record: 21-10 (11-7)
NCAAT: 6th seed, Sweet Sixteen
Prognosticator: Brian Tahmosh
Record: 21-10 (11-7)
NCAAT: 8th seed, Sweet Sixteen
Prognosticator: Nick Petraccione
Record: 21-10 (10-8)
NCAAT: 7th seed, Sweet Sixteen
Prognosticator: James Szuba
Record: 19-12 (9-9)
NCAAT: 10th seed, Round of 32
Prognosticator: Michael Burke
Record: 21-10 (10-8)
NCAAT: 7th seed, Round of 32
As expected, we almost all overestimated the Orange in the regular season. Everyone except James, who not only nailed the regular-season record but also the NCAA seed. It would have been logical for his guess of Round of 32 to have been true, except we know that logic went out the window in the NCAAs. That's when Andrew C. and Kenny picked up withs for their Elite Eight predictions, which were pretty close.
What did we learn? I guess that nobody knows what the hell is gonna happen. But then again we already knew that...