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| December 03, 2001 | DeCourcy, Mike | COPYRIGHT 2001 Sporting News Publishing Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

As the term suggests, preseason magazines are written during and for the preseason. They are designed to guide you from November to April, never infallible but ideally well informed. They are not supposed to be rendered obsolete the moment the first real game commences.

Two weeks into this season, 18 of TSN's preseason top 25 teams had lost. That includes seven of the top 10 and six of the top eight.

And it wasn't just our prognosticating skills being tortured. Who didn't have Maryland, Florida, Kentucky, UCLA and Kansas among their highest-ranked teams? Who did have Ball State? Anyone?

"All of the teams really have flaws," says St. Joseph's ...

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