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re: LSU Basketball with #1 Hardest SoS in conference
Posted on 2/13/12 at 10:46 am to thunderbird1100
Posted on 2/13/12 at 10:46 am to thunderbird1100
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Tomorrow night is the tipping point for the team. Beat Mississippi State and put yourself in position for a late run with the easier opponents coming up to MAYBE make the NCAAT. Lose and we're definitely out short of winning the SECT. TJ got a huge gift with 4/5 Bama starters being suspended this last weekend, a gift in which he almost squandered away. If he wants to keep his job I'm doing anything possible to beat Mississippi State tomorrow night and then finish it up strong winning at least 3/5 of final 5 games.
Disagree with you, but only because I still believe that 9-7 and two wins in the SEC tournament will get LSU in the NCAAs. And 9-7 is still on the table with a loss tomorrow.
Obviously, beating State gives the Tigers a cushion game in the last five, but LSU CAN win all five of those games.
It's just a shame to see "fans" looking for any reason they can to shovel dirt on a bunch of college kids.
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Posted on 2/13/12 at 10:52 am to Sheep
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Disagree with you, but only because I still believe that 9-7 and two wins in the SEC tournament will get LSU in the NCAAs. And 9-7 is still on the table with a loss tomorrow.
Im still not so sure on this. I said from the start I thought 10 wins were required, and I still feel that. Really because we didn't beat a single team we shouldn't have. 10-6 assumed 2 wins over teams that we should probably lose to. Alabama unfortuantely had noone on their roster which took that big win away from us.
We are now sitting with 4 wins in conference that we were suppose to win and 6 losses that we were suppose to take. LSU needed to win a game that was a surprise. That is why I think the State game is very important. We need a big victory against a teak that is seen as better than us. It is a home game which wont help as much but it will be a win over a top 50 RPI team. Depending on how the SEC ends I think LSU could possibly get into the NCAA's with a 9 win season, but only if everything goes our way and we somehow end up in 4th place. with 10 wins I think we can end in 5th place and still get into the tournament. Obviously a big SEC tournament could change what people think of this team so I won't say anything is impossible with 9 wins.
Posted on 2/13/12 at 11:02 am to Sheep
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Disagree with you, but only because I still believe that 9-7 and two wins in the SEC tournament will get LSU in the NCAAs. And 9-7 is still on the table with a loss tomorrow.
If we lose tomorrow then win out there is no chance we make the tournament without winning the SECT. Have you looked at our RPI and quality wins?
We are currently #78, as in, WAY OUT...lose tomorrow and we're around 80 at that point. Beating a bunch of patsies to close out will not improve that enough to be NCAAT worthy. Ole Miss is the only decent team in our final 5-game stretch and they still aren't even an RPI Top 50 team. The other 4 teams all have RPIs north of 100. We have a whopping 3 RPI Top 100 wins with only 1 of those being RPI Top 50 in Marquette which is a signature win, but not even close to enough quality wins to be in the tournament. 9-7 in a bad conference with 3 quality wins will not make it, sorry. Maybe if we didn't lose to the likes of Coastal Carolina and USA...but we lost and those were really bad losses.
Posted on 2/13/12 at 12:09 pm to Sheep
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Disagree with you, but only because I still believe that 9-7 and two wins in the SEC tournament will get LSU in the NCAAs.
You're delusional. Absolutely zero chance 9-7 gets LSU in without winning the SECt.
LSU has one quality win right now. One. Over Marquette. They've lost games to South Alabama and Coastal Carolina and their RPI is in the 70s. And as the OP referenced, the hard part of the schedule is behind them. Not a lot of RPI boosting games left for LSU. Still some games against low RPI teams that could still drag it down though.
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top 100 win as of now
Top 100? Nobody looks at that. Record against top 50 is what plays.
This post was edited on 2/13/12 at 12:13 pm
Posted on 2/13/12 at 1:16 pm to Sheep
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If he wants to keep his job I'm doing anything possible to beat Mississippi State tomorrow night and then finish it up strong winning at least 3/5 of final 5 games.
Silly Wabbit!! If trent ain't lose his job winning 16 total games in the last 2 years then why expect him to get fired when the team has showed more than a 100% improvement this year. He's not even close to being on the hot seat so just drop it. It's not like he took over a powerhouse in bball. Between 18 and 20 wins with this year plus the whole team coming back next year. I hate 2 say it but Trent will be hear a while
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