Basketball ends SEC stretch 9-9 or 10-8 ?

I wonder what record last season's team would have with this year's schedule. The bottom of the SEC is absolutely dismal this season.

I mean playing the bottom 3 teams in the league the last 3 games gives you plenty of confidence in 10-8.

I say 10-8 is very good improvement over the course of the year, and definitely from last year. We're a couple of close losses from being the 5th seed in the SEC tournament, a game out of a top 4 seed and byes. Nobody expected that. I'm very impressed with how this team fights and hustles. They are a lot better on defense than last year.

None of them will be easy, but UGA was their biggest test. I’d say 10-8

Hope we get Florida in the SECT.

After the Win at South Carolina, I was hoping they could win out though I expected they would not. Here is how, in my mind, the level of difficulty would stack up from hardest to easiest.

Kentucky (W)
Mississippi St.(L)
@Arkansas
Georgia (W)
@Vanderbilt
Missouri

We have a shot at 10-8 for sure. Winning @ Vandy and @ Arky are no givens, however..

Just going to throw out there that Will Wades record in the SEC his last year was 9-9.

"Remember when we used to compete for SEC championships????"

LSU never wins at Vanderbilt. 2020 is proof of that.

After his first year, there was ZERO QUESTION Wade would have LSU in the tournament.

The hope is McMahon can do the same after his second.

There is no good reason LSU shouldn't be in the tournament 90%+ of the time. We have the second best history in the SEC, we have eight players currently in the NBA (that has to be top 25 among colleges, I haven't researched it), and our all-time team would beat just about anyone.

We're not Georgia or South Carolina. We have a pretty good tradition here when we have the right coach at the helm.

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To think we really should have 2 more wins too…

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Could easily have a few more losses too.

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After his first year, there was ZERO QUESTION Wade would have LSU in the tournament.

The hope is McMahon can do the same after his second.

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We'll see how this season ends, but in some respects you can compare this season to Wade's first season at LSU. Wade inherited a 2-16 (SEC record) program mired in apathy. He pieced together the roster, which included a good PG, and went 17-13 (8-10) en route to a NIT birth. In that record he had a good non-conf. win (Michigan) and a tough loss to a mid-major program at home (Stephen F. Austin, though they were a much better team than Nichols). LSU was also blown out by multiple good teams that year (most notably Tennessee, Auburn, Notre Dame) and couldn't win on the road.

Now, McMahon shouldn't get significant credit because he improved from a terrible 2-16 performance the year prior...because it was HIS performance. But you saw some improvement and, ironically, LSU could finish with almost the exact same record.

The big difference, obviously, was that Wade had a big time recruiting class signed for the next season and there wasn't a risk of a guy like Waters transferring to a better program like their would be now. However, Wade didn't have access to over 1,000 transfers who would be immediately eligible like McMahon has now. So while McMahon may not have a similar signing class, he can supplement it in the portal.

In no way, shape, or form am I expecting LSU to make the jump next year like Wade's second team made. But when you break it all down the 17-18 season looks very similar to this season. That season was the baseline jumping off point for Wade. Hopefully in a year we look back and say the same thing for McMahon.