WMcBee

Miami is a very small private school. They are about the size of Duke and have about the same financial support from Alumni as Duke or Vanderbilt as well. They really were an exception being as good at football as they were. It is going to be much harder for them to sustain excellence than it will be for the big school like LSU, Texas, Ohio St, etc... I think Miami will have some god years (I think they won 9 games last year and were ranked as high as 7th) but they are closer to what they are now than what they were then. They have ranked very high in Athlete academic lately (3rd behind Notre Dame and Northwestern for D1 last year), and the academic standards at the U are getting to be very tough, so some of the kids that used to be able to get in won't be able to....even at the lowered football standards.

I like Utah, North Carolina, and Iowa State to make a run to the Final Four if they good good draws. Also, don't sleep on Ohio State with DeAngelo Russell. They could be a scary 6-7 seed.