In another thread I pointed out that there are no more than 3 - 5 other teams in the land who will have a roster as talented as Duke next season -- regardless of whether Josh is here or not. I guess this could change if Oden or Durant or all the Florida kids decide to stay in school, but that seems quite unlikely.
Anyway, Duke will be somewhere just outside the Top Ten, I think. The pundits will talk about how great our incoming class is and how all our freshmen will be much better as sophs. Frankly, if we'd had the end-of-season Paulus and Henderson back in January, we would not have lose some of the early ACC games that put us in a hole when we hit the tough part of the schedule in February. Not saying the season would have been dramatically different, but a healthy Paulus and Henderson make this team more like a #4 seed and give us probably a 10-6 ACC record instead of 8-8. Woudl have helped our confidence earlier in the season too.
-Jason "this team was damn close to winning like 5 more games... frustrating but a sign of why we should be oh so optimistic about next season" Evans