every year this time there's a chorus of folks saying "this is the year that syracuse won't make the tournement." if I remember correctly, that was the common prediction, and they ended up winning the whole damn thing. I don't pretend to know what will happen this year (since some dumbass thought it would be a good idea to play the SU-Gtown game in california of all places), but I wouldn't write off syracuse until the select the field for the tourney and then play all the games.