Is it bad that I would prefer all the players be suspended for round 1? (hear me out)

LSU would be going into the tournament with:

Reese
Morrow
Williams
Johnson
Van Lith
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Poa

The only thing different than our normal rotation would be missing Del Rosario. We'd just have 1 player rotating for a breather every couple minutes and we'd be perfectly fine. Our girls are used to playing 35 minutes each (or more)



South Carolina would have 4 starters and two bench players. They'd have:

Hall
Paopao
Johnson
Fulwiley
Johnson
Feagin

The only post player there is Feagin who averages like 4 points per game as a freshman. The other 5 are point guards or shooting guards. They would be in an absolute bind and would struggle even against a 16 seed if they had any kind of talent in the post whatsoever. Those girls also aren't used to playing over 20 minutes each because SC has so much depth and rotates out so many players.


If they all had to miss, that's a way better scenario for LSU. We have a better chance of beating a 15/14 seed with our best 6 players than beating full strength SC later in the tournament if you ask me




With that being said, I still think with unbiased non-SEC officiating LSU wins at least one, maybe both matchups with SC this year.