Lost 6 of their last 8, have two kenpom top 25 wins, and have a pretty weak out of conference schedule. This team does not deserve to be ranked, and if you were to take away the syracuse name, this would easily be a bubble team.
Welcome to the 2010-11 college basketball season. Not a lot of good deserving teams and probably the main reason why we are in the NCAA tourny in a lot of mock projections.
I look at Temple, North Carolina, Texas A&M and what have they done to deserve being ranked.
Also four of the Cuse's 6 losses that you mention are against other ranked teams (Pittsburgh, Villanova, Georgetown, Louisville). The nature of the Beast playing in the Big East is that everyone has to go through a gauntlet run where you are facing some very good teams night in and night out.
It's going to be interesting to see who fades in the BEast down the stretch. I really feel like MU is in decent shape as we have a schedule that positions us to succeed. 4-3 is very realistic. And some others likely won't achieve that in their final seven games. Of the current 6-5 teams, I see as many or more wins for us than WVU, Cinn, or possibly UConn.