LSU NCAA Tournament

Of the 77 predictions followed on Bracketmatrix.com, LSU is in the field in 75 of them.

edit: if they are not updated weekly they are removed from the list so currently 62 of 63... Was 75 of 77 earlier today though.

Overreaction is a human emotion that is not logical, but is still prevalent. If you look at our body of work, we are still a tournament team. Don't listen to everyone who can type and know we are still fine, but we cannot have a ton of WTF games going forward.

What people need to do is stop looking at brackets. LSU needs wins and count them up and add them up at the end and see where they fall.

They are not out of it but they need to win the games you should win.

LSU definitely needs to finish strong, though. Another 7-game win-streak at some point would be nice.

Even if we don't beat UK, we'll be fine if we win most of the rest, and avoid any more WTF losses (notably Auburn). This team has a lot of potential, I hope we can live up to it.

I'm thinking the same thing, in that I think we really need at least 23 wins to feel good about ourselves. If we go 12-6 in the SEC, that should be enough. 11-7 and we'll probably need to win a game or two in the SEC tournament.

I think most agree that we are in now, but our schedule is about to get tougher and, based on the fact that we have lost to two of the three worst teams in the conference (RPI wise), we are likely going to need to go 12-6. That means we can only lose 3 more conference games, four if we have a win against UK or a close loss to UK.

After Auburn and Alabama, we play UK, UT, A&M and Florida, a combined conference record of 24-8. Then we finish the season playing Ole Miss, UT and Arkansas, current record of 15-9.

There are no signs that we are actually fixing the turnover problem. We are still averaging 16 per game in SEC play with 0.9 TO to assist ratio. The frustrating part is that a lot of the turnovers are unforced and due to players simply being careless with the ball. Plus we are being out rebounded in SEC play, which is something that simply should not happen with this team. Hint... this is my nice way of saying part of our problem, at times, seems to be lack of effort and focus.

I think people's concern is less about where we stand right now and more about where we will be at the end of the regular season. Right now I see this team going 11-7 and needing wins in the SEC tournament. Losses coming to UK, UT or A&M (on the road), 2 of 4 to UF, Ole Miss, UT and @ Arkansas.

the pumpers are going to say different, but these tigers are not good enough to make it to the NCAA. Just look to next year: M & M stay, with Simmons: then NCAA time.

We're definitely good enough to make it this year, we're just so inconsistent and liable to lose games we shouldn't. The question is: Can we find some consistency down the stretch and win the games we need to?

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A lot of teams are good enough to make it. To me it comes down to earning it. And so far LSU has not done that. Personally I only want LSU to make the tournament if I think they could potentially win it all.

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That's pretty short sighted. Our team, especially our guards, need tournament experience this year to make a deep run next year.

It's not like we're expecting a Final Four run this year. Just making the tournament, and maybe winning a game or two, would be a huge step for the program.