I try to avoid putting too much stock into things such as preseason Bracketology rankings that drop several months before the college basketball season begins, but some things are just too odd to ignore.
Case in point, Jerry Palm's early Bracketology was released this past week. In it, Palm gives a full rundown of who he expects to be in the Big Dance come next year. Left out of his field of 64 are the Pittsburgh Panthers. It's also worth noting that Palm doesn't think next season is going to be a down one for the ACC - he promptly placed a whopping nine of the conference's teams in there, including Duke, North Carolina, Virginia, Florida State, North Carolina State, Virginia Tech, and Louisville, with Syracuse and Miami in play-in games.