LSU bball trivia: Which coach had his LSU team ranked the most times in the final AP Poll?

johnny jones

They are all tied at 1 time a piece.

It is a "gotcha" by the OP in an attempt to discredit Wade as if the fanbase is supposed to ignore other relevant numbers such as

Johnson: 67-62(.519) 25-39(.391) 1 SEC Championship; 1 NCAA Tournament
Jones: 90-72(.556) 42-48 (.467) 0 SEC Championships; 1 NCAA Tournament
Wade: 105-51(.673) 55-33 (.625) 1 SEC Championship; 3 NCAA Tournaments (would have been 4 had the 2020 tournament not been cancelled)
McMahon: 12-13 (.480) 1-11 (.083)

I'm not going to sit here and say Wade was the best coach in college basketball and that LSU was on the cusp of winning multiple championships were he still the HC. But relative to the other 3 HCs in the last ~15 years of LSU basketball he was Adolph Rupp

Caring about final AP rankings in college basketball is stupid.

Caring about AP rankings anytime after February is also stupid.

I’m betting literally no one was saying “Hey, we lost in the first round but we finished ranked!”

Get a grip.

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I'm not going to sit here and say Wade was the best coach in college basketball and that LSU was on the cusp of winning multiple championships were he still the HC

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Maybe you aren’t but there have been countless posts over the past few weeks pretty much saying this.

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Maybe you aren’t but there have been countless posts over the past few weeks pretty much saying this.

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Who knows? Maybe he was. He had a good recruiting class lined up for this season and he was no doubt going to embrace the transfer market. Last season was really his only year in the full free transfer market and he took a relatively unheralded 6th man and turned him into a first round pick.

The pessimist says his teams were going to continue to remain unbalanced and never fully reach their potential in terms of results.

The optimist says he had put together his first truly elite defensive team (after years of that being a big issue) and with the prevalence of NIL he was going fully embrace that landscape to bring in tremendous talent

EITHER option wouldn't be as bad as watching the current HC lead a team that shouldn't be horrible en route to a last place finish and potentially one of the worst seasons in 50 years of LSU basketball.

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He had a good recruiting class lined up for this season

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9-9 in the SEC last year after back to back top 10 recruiting classes.

A worse SEC record each of the 3 seasons following the SEC championship season.

As long as the revisionist history of Will Wade keeps getting posted then there’s no reason not to provide a reality check for those posters.

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Johnson: 67-62(.519) 25-39(.391) 1 SEC Championship; 1 NCAA Tournament
Jones: 90-72(.556) 42-48 (.467) 0 SEC Championships; 1 NCAA Tournament
Wade: 105-51(.673) 55-33 (.625) 1 SEC Championship; 3 NCAA Tournaments (would have been 4 had the 2020 tournament not been cancelled)

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Johnny Jones overall record is distorted by his last season when he was 2-16 in the SEC. Prior to that he was 40-32 in four seasons without a losing record.

Trent Johnson's record was even more abysmal when you consider he was 13-3 in year one with a senior laden team led by SEC POY Marcus Thornton and a healthy Tasmin Mitchell along with future NBA players Garret Temple and Chris Johnson. He won the SEC that year but was never able to recruit a talented roster to achieve similar success. His final four seasons he was 12-36.

The sweet 16 is the second weekend and Wade didn’t coach the game.

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Wade never made it pay the 1st weekend of the ncaa tournament. His best team was taken behind the shed by Tom izzo

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You’re contradicting yourself in this statement. Also to the people shitting on Wade, do you seriously believe that McMahon will have more consistent success here? He already has had a worse season than Wade ever had as a head coach anywhere and the season unfortunately isn’t over yet.

Johnny Jones was a solid coach.