re: What will its take for basketball to become more popular than baseball?

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Winning Championships

Think about it, if LSU baseball makes the equivalent of the sweet 16, fans want the coach fired.

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Well Wade and LSU basketball have won a more recent championship than baseball and to even being to try to compare the difficulty of the basketball and baseball tournaments and parity particularly relative to what Wade vs Mainieri inherited is asinine

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Will Wade has only coached one tournament game and some basketball fans want a statue of him.

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Here are some of his accomplishments in 4 years after taking over a team that won 2 conference games and was completely torn down and rebuilt.

Conference championship
Sweet 16 (it's his team regardless)
Most conference wins the last 3 years
Only team to get the double bye last 3 years
Only team to win 10 conference games last 3 years

From The Advocate this morning...

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With its 76-61 NCAA tournament first-round win over St. Bonaventure on Saturday, LSU did something no Tigers team had done in the past three-plus decades.

It’s the first time LSU avoided being a dreaded one-and-done in the tournament in two consecutive years since 1986 and '87.

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A victory against No. 1 East seed Michigan on Monday night in Lucas Oil Stadium would be the 20th this season for Will Wade’s team, which improved to 19-9 in taking care of St. Bonaventure.

The aforementioned 2019 team was 28-7 and LSU went 21-10 a year ago before the postseason was abruptly canceled without the Tigers playing a game in the Southeastern Conference or NCAA tournaments.

LSU last had three consecutive 20-win seasons under Dale Brown when, he strung together five in a row from 1989-93.

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He's doing things that haven't been done at LSU in decades and he's doing it at a time that the conference is actually competing on a national scale.