Yahoo's The Dagger previews the CAA, projects George Mason to finish #2

Matt Norlander of the Yahoo's college basketball blog The Dagger previews the CAA today and has ODU, Mason, and VCU in his top 3.  He also has JMU at #8 which I don't agree with, they are going to surprise some people this season, especially with Denzel Bowles.  No way I'd have them below Northeastern in the standing after the starters the Huskies lost this off-season. I also think he's giving Hofstra a little too much credit in these rankings, Charles Jenkins will be a beast this year but I don't know if it's enough to stabilize the changes that program is going through.

The conference had arguably its best year, top to bottom, in its history. Can it get at least two teams to The Dance?

Every year at this time the topic of multiple NCAA tournament berths comes up. I think it's very possible this season because the CAA as a whole returns almost 70 percent of their starting players. The out of conference schedule for the league is also pretty good this year. ODU and VCU have a chance to make some noise early in the year and Mason's game on the road at Dayton could be bubble worthy.  But like every year we have to wait to see how everything unfolds.