Pat Forde: Best/Worst case scenario for LSU

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LSU (8)

Best Case: Team that blitzed to the SEC regular-season title shows up in Greensboro, flush with poise and experience. Marcus Thornton hits shots, Tasmin Mitchell is a matchup problem and Collis Temple III plays junkyard-dog defense as the Tigers wallop Butler and lose a close one to North Carolina. LSU brass congratulates itself on hiring Trent Johnson away from Stanford, signs him to extension. Mitchell comes back for senior year. Other two SEC schools both win first-round games as well, staving off spring football talk another day.

Worst Case: Famously angry Johnson reprises his NCAA meltdown of last year and gets tossed from close game against Butler. Bulldogs respond by making technical free throws and win at the end. LSU completes late-season tailspin, losing for the third time in its last five games. Mitchell goes pro, and the SEC goes 0-3 in first-round games. Johnson reconsiders career move after seeing NCAA results dwarfed by LSU baseball and spring football.

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Collis Temple III? WTF????

and he says if we lose to Butler, we would have last 3 of last 5. incorrect... it would be 4 of 5.

Anyways, he thinks we have no shot at UNC. And there is no way Trent gets a T in the Butler game. He learned from last year and is way more calm and poised than that.