re: The SEC tournament matters. It's important LSU is winning some games.

to add to the history

1991 LSU losses to Florida in SEC Championship Wins title
1993 (strange division split tourney) Wins SEc tourney wins Title
1996 LSU goes 1-2 Wins title
1997 LSU goes to title Looses to Bama Wins title (by beating the crap out of bama)

years we made omaha but didn't win it all
1986 LSU won SEC tourney
1987 LSU lost to MSU in title
1989 LSU two and a BBQ
1990 split championship with MSU
1994 LSU wins Western Championship
1998 LSU 1-2

what it seems like when LSU makes does well in the tournament it usually translates to success in the post season. Every once and a while we will lay an egg come NCAA tourney time after winning the tournament (see 1992, 2010) and sometimes we win titles after only winning one game.

We seem to do better when winning the SEC title but not always.