re: Joe Lunardi's current bracket projections- Final Four?

Yes... Having Damian Jones would of been another player that would undoubtedly have bolstered frontcourt depth to an extent we could consider ourselves legitimate title contenders....

Add in a another decent small forward at about 6'6 or above and there is no doubt in my mind we are talking about maybe a top 3 seeded team and grandeurs of the beginnings of an annual tournament run for a championship at least the next 2-3 years and no one would think otherwise....

If only we could of had Johnny one year earlier, we would of had the probability of landing a prosepctive combination of Victor, Gathers, Damian Jones, and a quality small forward to compliment what we have now...

Our bench would be solid and depth would not be an issue, allowing what he probably would implement more consistently like last year, the full court press defense...

But with that said, we still can make noise in the big Dance, if we play our best basketball of the year and somehow get safe and reliable production from Gray....

LSU going dancing and the tournament is always better to watch and more gut wrenching to endure when we are in it and believe we have a puncher's chance. NOBODY came close, I guess TA&M, to beating Kentucky, like us... That's the penultimate out there along with Duke.
Other teams won't be eager to play us when they begin to game plan for us and realize we got 3 pros...