There are NO days/games off in that league. I know expansion is driven by football, but the bottom 5 teams are really pulling the overall quality of the ACC down (especially when some of the "good" teams lose to them... ugh).
I still can't believe the media picked us 6th and that we were unranked to start the season. Totally screwed up our streak of being in the polls for like 4 straight years. The media are such haters of system teams that don't get the top-tier athletes. EVERY year it's, "Well, they lost [insert an of options below] so they'll take a step back".
2014 - Harris/Mitchell
2015 - Anderson/Atkins
2016 - Brogdon/Gill/Tobey (and we did take a step back in 2017, but only due to the combo of losing Austin Nichols in the preseason, and then Wilkins being hampered by illness in February - we were top 10 before that)
2017 - Perrantes/Transfers
I wonder if the media will ever learn their lesson and just "auto-rank" Bennett's teams no matter WHAT the roster looks like. Because I guarantee you, he could take a bunch of sub-150 players and at least get them to the top 25 based on D alone. Give him top 100 guys - and we'll be top 5-10ish.