Top 10: Teams outside of our No-Longer-Way-Too-Early Top 25 - Men's College Basketball Blog - ESPN
2. Georgetown Hoyas: Losing Joshua Smith, Mikael Hopkins and Jabril Trawick this spring cost Georgetown its best post scorer, its best rebounder and back-line defender, and its undisputed senior leader, all at once. That's a lot to overcome. The Hoyas' prospects for doing so improved dramatically when D'Vauntes Smith-Rivera came back to school. Smith-Rivera's holdover gave John Thompson III at least some ballhandling continuity through which that immensely promising freshman class of a season ago -- Isaac Copeland, L.J. Peak, Paul White and Tre Campbell -- can cohere as a whole.