re: LSU Basketball Next Year - How good will they be?

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This'll be a fun thing to bookmark. You'd these posts wouldn't exist considering how much LSU exceeded expectations last year.

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I wouldn't say the past season's team GREATLY exceeded expectations. They still finished .500 in a weak SEC, and in the bottom half of the league. They had a good OOC record, but outside of Marquette and Boise St. (both loses) the schdedule was pretty poor.

All that said, there is certainly reason for optimism in the direction the program is heading. Hopefully it will lead to better crowds and greater interest, but there's probably a middle ground that needs to be reached somewhere between "this teams going to make a deep run in the NCCAT" crowd and the "things are still going to be avg at best under CJJ" crowd.

I think LSU is picked to finish somewhere between 5-8 in the preseason SEC polls. They'll start the season unranked and without much national attention, but I suspect the OOC schedule will be much better than this past year, and they'll have plenty of opportunites to prove what kind of team they are going into SEC play.