Team preview: George Washington

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(Information in this team report is as of October 1.)

This time last year, most experts expected George Washington to become an NCAA Tournament team.

The Colonials returned their top seven scorers from an 18-win NIT team in a year when the rest of traditional Atlantic 10 powers had some rebuilding to do.

Five months later, George Washington fulfilled the great expectations. With a 76-67 victory over Saint Joseph's in the 2005 Atlantic 10 Tournament title game, the Colonials locked up that Big Dance invite. They were the only NCAA team from the Atlantic 10, a league that produced two Elite Eight teams the previous March (Saint Joseph's, Xavier) but was way down last winter.

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