Down 1 spot. Truly a back breaker
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Down 1 spot. Truly a back breaker
aTm down 15 spots to #40 after home loss to lsu
We have a real shot at beating Bama. They are not the same team as last year.
Like I said in the other thread, it was a missed opportunity and nothing else. Defend home court and steal a couple on the road and we?ll be fine.
Rams had a BPM of -8.4 yesterday. You just can?t have that out of your point guard. He?s been through it though and I expect him to play much better this week.
Being at home helps but it will def be tough to beat Tennessee. We should beat Bama at home. Lose at Kentucky and then beat Vandy at home. 2-3 to start is not terrible by any means out of that group
Currently 27th (5-1 in q1 and q2 games)
Tough next 2 games...
Bama 5th
Kentucky 17th
Big games for us tonight...
FAU at Tulane
ASU at Washington
Washington state beat USC on road - 65th now in net
NW beat Penn state on road last night - 69th now in net
Be sweet if these 2 can get to 50h for q1 win
24th in kenpom
30th in BPI
32nd in rpi
What is the Highest Net ranking to not make the tournament?
We are in great shape.
What's consistent every year is you really make your resume in the non-conference. We racked up good wins and that will carry us for the season as long as we win the games we should in the league. The years we have been on the outside looking in we got no quality wins in the non-conference. You will not be left out of the tournament for losing to Southern. Quality wins matter so much more than bad losses.
If we can bet Bama Saturday we are back to talking seed positioning as opposed to "are we in?"
Winning cures all
Need to get to 11-7 somehow in conference for a quality seed
For the time being, our problem is going to be road games. We’re 0-2 in true road games, 1-2 if you want to throw in Rutgers, this year. Add that to last year when we were 4-6 on the road and it tells me we will struggle with road games and lose to inferior teams this year on the road.
Well lets look at our road games:
@Kentucky
@Fla
@Mississippi
@Bama
@Mizzou
@LSU
@Auburn
@A&M
I think we go 3-5 at best there and probably 2-6. Means We need to go 6-2 at worst at home. Kentucky will be huge and Auburn is pretty good but we will be favorites in the rest most likely. 10-8 in the SEC would put us 21-10 heading into the SEC Tourney and about a 9-10 seed most likely
But defense travels and we may find a way to 11 SEC wins
We have a long way to go.
But, if we don?t collapse as stated above we?ll have a good chance for a good seed.