re: We thought Dale couldn't coach

My point was Dale spread the floor in the first three games of the tournament and beat three better seeded teams. The spread might have cost LSU that game, or maybe it could have been the fact the refs refused to call any of dozens of illegal screens Indiana set for Alford. Bottom line it was borderline miraculous LSU was in that position with that team.

And saying LSU lost in 81 because they played the spread against Indiana is a bit disingenuous. Dale, for some inexplicable reason, spread the floor in the first half after Isiah Thomas got his third foul and had to sit out. A really, really, really bad move. But the game was tied at half. LSU was blown out in the second half but did not go into the spread in that half.