re: Joe Lunardi - LSU is all but out of the NCAA tournament

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The real question is why are we playing Charleston Southern on the road? LSU should never play a team like that and go into a high school gym when you know they will pack it and be right on top of you. It is really asking your team to not show up and they play lights out and beat you

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Exactly. LSU's non-conf schedule was horrible. That's on Jones. LSU had a lot of hype coming into the season and could have gotten some games against better teams. The fact that every team in the Brooklyn tournament was garbage is not Jones' fault. However, neither NC State, Marquette and/or Arizona St. were highly thought of coming into the season. LSU had to know they needed to stick some better games on the schedule. Instead, they lined up McNeese, @ Charleston, Gardner-Webb, American, Oral Roberts and a Wake Forest team who most knew was going to be an ACC bottom-feeder.

That OOC schedule gave them little room for error in the first place. Losing 5 of those games blew right through that room for error. Despite having some decent wins on the schedule, LSU's RPI is awful because they played nobody and unfortunately, lost to several of those nobodies. Even if they had won 2 or 3 of those non-conf. games they lost, their RPI would still be lacking because the schedule was so week. Thank God ESPN stuck LSU with Oklahoma. Otherwise, the OOC schedule would have been even worse.

It's pathetic that they missed a great opportunity to capitalize off the hype coming into the season by not scheduling anyone worth a shite at home in Nov/Dec. It's biting them in the arse now even though they are still alive for the SEC championship.