Watching that LSU Basketball RPI creep up like...

Ridin' again all this week against Vandy and @UGA

What is it now

Went from 75 to 72 today.

This year's team is a tease. When the calvary comes in next fall there won't be a question of making it or not.

Does a 10-8 conference record get us in as an at large? I’ve had people tell me even if we’d somehow run the table and finish 10-8 we’d still need multiple tourney wins to get in.

I agree I even saw some scenarios a week ago that said we could get in at 8-10 with SEC tourney wins. 10-8 in the SEC this year should be enough especially considering that if we get there we’ll have knocked teams like UGA and most likely Miss St. out of contention. The SEC will likely get 7-8 teams in this year and 10-8 almost certainly moves us into the 7th spot in the final SEC standings.

10-8 with LSU's high number of tier one wins would make them very tough to leave out. Then again, the number of tier one wins could fluctuate. For instance, the win vs Ark (at home) only became a tier one win by virtue of Arkansas's win over A&M. That obviously could change with 3 weeks left in the season.

4-0 down the stretch means LSU would (likely) add 3 top 100 wins to the resume. More importantly, it would also add two more road wins. If that happens I think you see LSU go in as a 8-10 seed. Will it? Who knows. The odds aren't great, but at least they are in the discussion this late in the season

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I think 10-8 with just one tourney win (11-9) almost certainly gets us in. The question is whether 9-9 and 2 tourney wins gets us in

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This....either of those scenarios would get us an overall winning record in one of the strongest conferences in the country, 20 wins and every time they mention LSU they will mention the number of, not just top 50...but top 30 RPI wins LSU has.

But first things first, we have not shown enough consistency of good play all year to think we can pull such a thing off, but the last 4 teams we play are all team that we are not overmatched by and maybe we play our best ball of the year at the end.

I don't think we can sweep the four but I think 3-1 is possible if not probable, then get into the tourney and see what happens.

Geaux Tigers!!

I think the fact that we are even talking about possibly making the tourney, and it's not some far fetched thing here, it's a real possibility, makes me feel very good about the future of Will Wade's LSU Basketball Program, even though i felt very good about it the second he was hired.

We were just about unanimously picked to come out last in the SEC, and even though most people, LSU fans that is, thought that was a crock, it is pretty amazing to finish where they will with those preseason expectations.