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On basketball improvement...
Margins: Years 3, 2, 1
Vs best team in the SEC: NA, +11, +35&+25
2nd best: +20&+4, +22&+10, +30 ----- woulda, coulda, shoulda beat Arky at home this year...
3rd best: +4, +20&+21, +32&+8 ----- woulda, coulda, shoulda beat aTm on the road this year...
4th best: +6&+6, +7, +17&-6 ----- woulda, coulda, shoulda beat Ole Miss both home and away this year...
5th best: -6, +4, +42 ----- got over the hump against LSU....
6th best: +6, +19, +25&+16 ----- woulda, coulda, shoulda beat Georgia this year...
Average margins against the top half of a league that bottomed out in 2012 and is rebounding in a big way right now:
current - +5.71PPG** With Kentucky to go, which will probably inflate this number slightly
2014 - +14.25PPG
2013 - +22.2PPG
So -- we've been in every game against the top half of the league and I believe led in the second half of every one of these games sans @ Bud Walton. We've got to learn to finish games -- no doubt. Which is why I said before that we play like a young team -- by not finishing games and dumb, unforced turnovers.
I understand the argument of "there's been improvement but not enough -- it's year 3" -- and I will agree that Ray is a year behind where he needs to be at this point in time. This team is what last year's team should have been IMO...
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