With every game that’s played, we learn more about the reality of the new season.
We start every year with certain expectations – expectations that usually contain a good deal of truth, but also a strong leavening of misperception.
Of course, it’s still too early to think we know everything. Ken Pomeroy warns that his statistical system only reached full efficiency in late January. Early season results can throw us off – anybody remember just three years ago, when Virginia endured a pretty mediocre November/December only to turn it on to dominate the 2014 ACC regular season race?