The trend seems to be to give respect to the teams with returning guys in the backcourt (Dowtin and Russell
Rhode Island) (Grady and the Icelander at Davidson) (Goodwin and the grad transfers at St. Louis), etc.
If you're some guy just looking at the stats from last year on ESPN and see Baby D is gone and just look at the numbers from JC/JD I'd think most of these people would undersell Dayton's guard play this year