re: Latest Bracketology LSU 7 seed!

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Jerry Palm, CBS guy, also has Alabama as a 10 seed

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Palm appears to be relying heavily on RPI rankings. If that is your only tool for selecting tournament teams, then yes, Bama is probably in, while LSU has work to do. Nonetheless, I think Lunardi is judging LSU on it's performance with Victor/Hornsby and to a large extent is probably discounting the 1st 8 games without them.

Clearly when selection Sunday comes LSU will have to be looked at based upon what they did with their 2nd and 3rd leading scorers in the line up as opposed to what they did without them. Simply put, LSU is a much different team without Victor/Hornsby.

Finally, Gotleib made a great point during Saturday's broadcast. The "eye test" matters to the committee, and Oklahoma's AD is on that committee. He was at the OU/LSU game. Alleva is also on the committee. While he "technically" can't be a part of any LSU discussions, human nature says that if LSU is close, the committee is going to help out one of their own.

LSU has played their way into a good spot. They just have to finish strong and remove all doubt.