re: With a 14-3 record in MBball

I'll say that we finish the season 22-8. We make it to either Friday or Saturday in the SEC Tournament (depending on if we have Thursday off or not), and finish up 23-9 and get in.

I think the overall SEC RPI will increase a bit over the course of the conference schedule. The top 4 SEC teams should be locks for the NCAA tournament. That is looking like 3 east teams and 1 west team right now. A 5th team getting a bid depends largely on how a lot of other conference races play out.

I think if LSU wins 24 games, they are a lock. Whether that means going 8-5 in the remaining SEC games, loosing to Xavier & winning 2 SEC tournament games or some other combination, that should be enough. 23 wins and they are on the bubble, even if they win the west unless they get a couple of quality wins along the way (Xavier & Kentucky). 22 wins or less and they need a lot of help.

As it has already been mentioned, how a team is playing down the stretch can be a deciding factor. As well as the Tigers have looked in the past week, let's hope they haven't peaked too early. One thing the Tigers do have is experience and Tasmin is emerging as a team leader. And Johnson demands that they play hard each and every game. I don't suspect there will be much of a drop of, if any, over the remaining games.

Baring injuries, anything less than 10-6 in the SEC would be a disappointment IMO. It's still early in the season but this time next week we will have a much better prospective of how good this team really is. Hopefully we are discussing a 16-3 LSU team sitting in 1st place in the west.

Big Ten, ACC, Big East, Big Twelve and PAC 10 will probably get 6,7,8,6 and 5 bids respectively. That's 32 of the 64 right there and the Big 10 may end up with 7 bids.

I'd say that will leave the SEC 3-4 spots tops. It's going to take an impressive resume to get in without a conference championship IMO.

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I'd say that will leave the SEC 3-4 spots tops

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I'd put down a good bit of $$$ that the SEC gets 4 teams in the tournament. Tenn, KY, FLA, and at least one West team will make it. In fact, I wouldn't be shocked at all if they get 5.

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Big Ten, ACC, Big East, Big Twelve and PAC 10 will probably get 6,7,8,6 and 5 bids respectively. That's 32 of the 64 right there and the Big 10 may end up with 7 bids.

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Big Ten should get:

Illinois
Minnesota
Michigan State
Ohio State
Purdue
*maybe Penn State and/or Michigan

ACC:

UNC
Duke
Wake Forest
Clemson
Florida State
Miami
*maybe NC State

Big East:

Pitt
Georgetown
U Conn
Louisville
Syracuse
Marquette
West Virginia
Villanova
Notre Dame

Big 12:

Oklahoma
Texas
Texas A&M
Baylor
Missouri
Nebraska
*maybe Oklahoma State

Pac 10:

UCLA
Washington
Arizona State
USC
Cal
*maybe WSU

SEC:

Florida
Kentucky
Tennessee
*LSU
*Arkansas
* Miss State
* - 2/3 get in and one doesn't