BayouWolf

Toughest test coming Sunday against TTU followed by SMU. That said, through 8 games all of the key NCAA selection metrics are at all time highs for McMahon. This team is easily the best offensive and most balanced, most size and most depth in his 4 years. Key rankings are (thru 12/3):

KenPom: #25
NET: #16
ESPN BPI: #35
ESPN SOR: #30
Bart Torvik: #34
KPI: #39

Tigers are playing efficient, pass the ball incredibly well and are rebounding ant an high clip. All of that leading to one of the most efficient offenses in the country through 8 games.

This reads like a twitter bot account. Baylor lost every single player from their roster. Is Scott Drew a terrible coach as well?

You know Ole Miss is 4-0 in conference and won @ Bama. Mizzou just won @ Florida and is 3-1 in conference (only loss @ Auburn). How is that weak SEC teams? Vandy was a bad loss.

Fountain was not here during Wade…

We are saying the same thing. Did you looks at MSU resume - they beat Arizona St, Northwestern (tourney team), Washington St (5 seed), Rutgers and North Texas on neutral floor and then beat Tennessee and Auburn at home.

As many have said, they have been very competitive in almost every game. NCAAT is a massive long shot but from a program perspective would be awesome to see a W against 1 of Tenn, Bama and UK.

The profile looks drastically different if they don’t lose back to back games against Nicholls (crippling quad 4 loss) and Dayton (missed top 20 quad 1 win) on buzzer beaters. Let alone 1 possession losses vs A&M and UGA. We are close but also very far away from bubble.

Have you watched Vandy play at all this year or did you see the box score of their game against Memphis? The Vandy team that is ranked 212 in KenPom, lost to Presbyterian and best win of the year is a 4 point victory of UNC Greensboro? That Vandy?

LSU is struggling and they will likely not win a ton of SEC games, but they are MUCH better with Cook in lineup and the data supports it. They will shorten up rotations in SEC play and people know their roles much better now.

The key will be Cook, Wright and Baker being consistent scorers. Those 3 need to get you 45-50ppg and then let others fill in around. The size is there to compete and shooting and assists is much improved since Cook came back.

Completely agree. Miller will be much better next year in my mind.

Thanks!! Missed the email but all set now. Geaux tigers!

Thanks. Much appreciated.

1/23/2019 update....

NET: 13 (improved +2 since last week)
KPI: 9 (same as last week)
SOR: 22 (declined -1 since last week)
Average: 15 (same)

KenPom: 23 (+7)
BPI: 35 (+2)
Sagarin: 28 (+5)
Average: 29 (+4)

Quad 1: 2-2
Quad 2: 5-1
Quad 3: 4-0
Quad 4: 3-0

Takeaways on resume entering tonights UGA matchup:
1) the Predicitve Metrics (KenPom, Sagarin, BPI) are now catching up to the results-based metrics (NET, KPI, SOR) as you can see from the changes week to week. Expected given we are ~60% through the regular season.
2) 7-3 against Quad 1 and Quad 2 teams remains incredibly strong.
3) St Mary's is playing well and moved into a Quad 1 win (NET is now 48) - that win will look even better come selection sunday in my view
4) As of today, LSU has 6 Quad 1 games left on its schedule (@MSU, Aub, @UK, Tenn, @Bama, @Florida)
5) Many others have already said this but LSU will likely be favored in next 4 games before entering their murders row where 5 out of 6 games will be against teams in top 35 of NET as of today. Entering that stretch 7-1 would give them some confidence and cushion going into that stretch.
6) ESPN Bracketology and many others projections have LSU as a 5 or 6 seed as of today.