Syracuse Basketball: Donte Greene's Worth

Here's an interesting bit of "analysis" from Andy Katz. Basically, Andy (who's written work I don't mind - he's a bit much to take on TV for me) says that:

"If Greene comes back, the Orange certainly are a Big East top-seven contender"

Now I realize a couple of things - A) we should all assume Donte is gone and B) it's the off-season and Katz has 300 other teams to cover, but man - they finished 9th this year and under this scenario they're adding back to experienced veterans and plugging in 2 good new recruits - way to go out on a limb and predicting a "Top 7" Big East contender finish there.....