Quote Originally Posted by paulxu View Post
Well, all I have is a bunch of impressions from seeing them up close in what amounts to a high school gym atmosphere.
Yes, they play good, well coached/executed team ball...and obviously excel when they get a Curry.
But they don't play A10 level competition night in, night out. They go off every now and then (like Wofford at X) but it's my impression they couldn't handle that on a consistent basis yet.
They are not Butler and VCU; not even close.
I think they've been better these last two years than they were in Curry's freshman and junior year. That's hard to quantify, but it's just the impression I get. Curry's sophomore year they were really good. They didn't have any top 100 wins during the regular season, but I want to say that they played four top ten teams that year, and lost all four games by a combined total of 20 pts, or something like that. They were actually 3-6 before they started blowing through all those sub top 100 teams. Kansas won the national title that year, and I still think Davidson should have beaten them.

But, like I said earlier, I don't even look at that season when I assess their program. It was an aberration and has nothing to do with their current program status. At the end of the day, I think playing so many teams outside of the RPI top 200 works against them. Playing A10 caliber competition will help them a lot more than it will overwhelm them.

The thing is, none of these arguments will be proven right or wrong until a couple of years from now, and by then no one will remember that we were even arguing about it. It's just that in the offseason, pretty much the only thing you have to talk about are hypotheticals.