re: Basketball Prediction NCAA, NIT or home?

As an avid LSU basketball supporter for the last 25-27 years, disappointment has become the theme and par for the course. Starting with the '86 team coming down with Chicken Pox after a 13-0 start (that would all work out just fine thanks to the PMAC ); losing Tito Horford before the second game in '87; Nikita Wilson's academic eligibility; John Williams's early exit; Stanley Roberts, Harold Boudreaux, and Mo Williamson having to Prop 48 in '88-89; a wave of '88-'92 players leaving too early; The Randy Livingston

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knee situation; Dale Brown escalating the '92 SECt game with UT and Shaq and Carlus Groves -- costing Shaq the next day; Lester Earl fiasco; losing Lamont Roland to injury in early '01; Big baby and Tyrus playing basically intoxicated in Indianapolis in '06; John Brady coaching horrible BIG games in the tourney; Trent Johnson; only having Randolph for 1 year; players in recent years transferring -- you could do a Billy Joel "We Didn't Start the Fire" song with all this.

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shite, I thought I was negative. Despite all that you listed, only Florida and Kentucky have won the SEC more than LSU since 1986. LSU is still only second to UK in most ever SEC championships, and the only team with double digit titles (11) outside of UK. Also since '86 an LSU player has won the conference POY more times than any other SEC school including UK.

There have absolutely been some disappointing years with loaded rosters, bad breaks, etc., but things haven't been THAT bad. The problem is that the last 5 years have been the worst stretch of LSU basketball since the mid/late 90's probation years. Even under Brady, LSU rarely went more than 2-3 years without making the NCAAT.