Busting Brackets CBB Town Square meeting while sitting at a Roundtable

Most disappointing team?

Jan 11, 2014; Syracuse, NY, USA; North Carolina Tar Heels head coach Roy Williams looks on against the Syracuse Orange during the second half at the Carrier Dome. Syracuse defeated North Carolina 57-45. Mandatory Credit: Rich Barnes-USA TODAY Sports

JN: Michigan, right? Maybe North Carolina as well. Both are dealing with departures from last season as well as injuries (or other, more complicated departures). The easier answer would be to knock Kentucky or someone like that, but I’ll go with one of those two. At the same time, though, most of their issues are out of their own hands.

BLW:  North Carolina.  The Tar Heels had to win at Boston College this weekend just to keep themselves relevant in the ACC.  I am not at all surprised that the addition of two former Big East powers (Pitt and Syracuse) has changed the whole feel of the ACC, but North Carolina is still North Carolina.  They should still be a contender.

JM: I don’t care if Joe says Kentucky’s the easy answer, the most applicable answer is Kentucky. The fact that they have, I don’t know, at least 10 players or so who are talented enough to start on any team in the country yet they’re a 4-loss team who doesn’t quite have an identity – or at least not a good one – makes them an easy answer here. I’ll give them a little bit of leeway because three of the four losses were to ranked teams at the time, and they do have several impressive wins early on in the season, but we’re not talking about some lesser program with a magnificent class, we’re talking about Kentucky, where every season the freshman class is more impressive than the last and they’re expected to have deep runs year-after-year. Not to say they won’t be in play come late March, but there doesn’t seem to be much leadership or confidence (relatively speaking) which for me is disappointing. Besides, who am I going to pick for this? St. John’s who nobody ever expects to be good?