re: Would it shock anyone if we ran the table in Nashville?

Team looks worn out from exceeding expectations this past month

They are 300-1

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Would it shock anyone if we ran the table in Nashville

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It would shock everyone.

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LSU basketball has an unbelievable knack for playing themselves into the worst possible seeding with regards to matchups in the SEC tournament every year.

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Once you get past the 1st round games (I guess 2nd now), everyone is good. Tennessee and Auburn are the SEC's true National Championship contenders. You were probably going to run into them anyway.

While MSU is not a "good" matchup for LSU by any means, I think the blowout in BR was a bit of an outlier. LSU was coming off a tough stretch of games @ Florida, @ South Carolina, Kentucky. All of which were emotional fights all the way to the end. I thought that emotion could carryover into the home game vs. State. But it seems more likely LSU was "spent". Plus they lost a guy who had been a key piece in the two previous games, Ward, in the first half of the MSU game.

That's not to say MSU wouldn't have still won the game even if Ward wasn't hurt (I think they would have). But they probably caught LSU at a good time which turned what likely should have been a tight game into a blowout.

MSU comes into the game on a 4 game losing streak (albeit all against good teams). They haven't won a game since the victory over LSU. Their offense is playing much better, which is a concern. But I think LSU will be better prepared for MSU's great defense (at least they should be). I don't think I would bet on LSU to win. But I do think it will be a better game this time around.

We only have 9 scholarship players available. Ward being healthy along with our other 3 point shooters may give us a shooter's chance to beat State, but winning the very next night would be a huge task, much less 4 wins in 4 nights.

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Is it?

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Yes, considering that the two potential opponents we beat received zero mentions, and the four top potential opponents we lost to were only mentioned.

The Tennessee game worries me the most, but we could be looking at a situation where the top teams really do not care about the SECT and we make a deep run. LSU certainly did not care about the SECT when we were the #1 seed in 2019. Hopefully Tennessee feels the same way.