re: LSU vs. Michigan - Maui Invitational Full Game

Beilein is maybe the most underrrated coach in the country. First he takes over an 8 win West Virginia team and in 5 years wins an NIT championship and goes to the elite 8 and sweet 16. Then in 07 he inherits a Michigan team who was still on probation and hadn’t been to an NCAA tourney in 9/10 years. He has that team in the NCAA tourney in year 2, has 8 tourney appearances, 2 regular season Big-10 titles, back to back Big-10 tournament championships, 2 final 4s and an NCAA title game appearance. Not to mention reaching 2 NCAA tournaments in 5 years at Richmond and winning nearly 60% of his games plus a conference title at Canisius. The dude can coach and whatever the excuses may be, Wade beat one of his final 4 team with an LSU roster picked to finish last in the SEC. I’m not gonna jump the gun and say we will be in the final 4 next year with that number 3 class he’s bringing in because those guys will be freshman and nobody knows yet how the pieces will fit together. But if the recruiting stays at this level or a level close two it, once he’s stacked a few classes on top of each other we will be set up for deep runs in the big dance. I just can’t wait for next season to get here.