Men?s basketball prediction

[Dawgcap]

So my predictions are we beat A&M. Finish 6 in SEC. Win at least 1 in tournament. May need 2. But we will make Sweet 16.

[parabrave]

So my predictions are we beat A&M. Finish 6 in SEC. Win at least 1 in tournament. May need 2. But we will make Sweet 16.

You did watch the last 2 games didn't you? Sweet 16??????

[Dawgcap]

I did. It’s not what you did the last 2 it’s how you recover! I believe we catch fire at the right time.

[Goldendawg]

So my predictions are we beat A&M. Finish 6 in SEC. Win at least 1 in tournament. May need 2. But we will make Sweet 16.

My prediction is that this team remains very hard to watch in the remaining games and continue to look at times that some don't like each other or even enjoy playing the game at times. Will either lose every remaining game or win the National Championship (and look bad in the first half doing it). Hail State!

[yjnkdawg]

So my predictions are we beat A&M. Finish 6 in SEC. Win at least 1 in tournament. May need 2. But we will make Sweet 16.

There needs to be a big turn around, then, and they need to start playing as a team again, enjoy playing the game (together), and have that competitive spirit, or I don't see that happening.

[CadaverDawg]

So my predictions are we beat A&M. Finish 6 in SEC. Win at least 1 in tournament. May need 2. But we will make Sweet 16.

May need 2?

For what

[yjnkdawg]

May need 2?

For what

I was wondering that too. Nine SEC wins got us in the NCAA tourney, and the quadrant 1 wins that we have.

[Dawgcap]

May need 2 in the SEC tournament to get a 6 seed. I think 2 wins in that tournament gives a shot at the Sweet 16. Look I realize tonight was ugly but there aren’t many teams in the country we don’t match up with. Tennessee is one of them. They were last year and they were this year. I know I may be optimistic but we win 1-2 in SEC tournament and beat A&M last game we have a shot. We lose Saturday I retract this statement!

[Dawgcap]

Funny so what’s your predictions?

[dantheman4248]

Funny so what’s your predictions?

Round of 32 at best until we prove we can beat a top 16 team. For us to make the sweet 16 our 3/2 seed partner needs a first round loss.

[Liverpooldawg]

This isn't a Sweet 16 team unless we get really hot and get two great matchups the first weekend. Given where our program has been just getting to the Dance is huge.

[Lord McBuckethead]

I did. It’s not what you did the last 2 it’s how you recover! I believe we catch fire at the right time.

well I was thinking we should have tried to recover during last nights game? In my opinion, the road to recovery hasn't even started as of 8:30 a.m. 03.06.2019. We may not have even bottomed out yet judging by the execution and team mentality last night.

Hell our team with the talent we have could get to the elite 8. Will they? Well they have shown me zero indicators in the past 2 months that we can compete when the other team is hustling.

[HoopsDawg]

without nick, we are in trouble. I guess we could get really hot and win 1 game in the tourney.

[StarkVegasSteve]

The facts are that without Nick this team is screwed. We get in foul trouble far too easily and we end up not playing aggressively at the guard positions. I don't know what's going on with Peters, but whatever and whoever had the talk with him last year around the Alabama game needs to have that talk again. He's got to become more of a scoring threat. We can't be successful simply relying on Q and hoping Tyson is hot. We need another threat at guard and Nick is that threat. His ability to get to the goal or pull up from 12-15 ft is exactly what we need. We're also missing his toughness on D.

[fishwater99]

We need good PG play and we aren't getting it right now.

[Ari Gold]

It’s pretty amazing how we as a fan base are able to suck the ****ing life out of making it to the Dance for the first time in over a decade and the field hasn’t even been announced yet ..

Here is an idea:

Enjoy the next few weeks knowing we are playing meaningful games In March ..
Bottom line is no one knows what’s going to happen come the dance
Thats the beauty of college basketball . I’m sure all of you honks had Loyola Chicago in the final 4 last year or USCe in the final four in 2017 ect...
Again this isn’t ****ing football , where right now we can prob pencil in 3 or possible all 4 of the teams in the playoffs next year and it’s March

We might lose the first game , we may make it to the elite 8.

So either enjoy the ride the next few weeks. If you don’t give a **** or want to bitch or complain about losing 2 road games agaisnt 2 quad 1 opponents , or I don’t like CBH or I hate watching this team play , or whatever ..take that shit somewhere else and let the few on here that enjoy March madness and us finally being apart of it enjoy it .

[BB30]

At Tennessee is a tough place to win. We had plenty of opportunities to make that a game and missed too many easy baskets. The good news is we did a decent job on the offensive boards just didn't finish around the basket. Cut out some of the turnovers and make the easy baskets and that game ends up being fairly close.

It wasn't like Tennessee out athleted us we kicked ourselves. The raw talent is there to make a run. Just have to play smarter. I could see us getting bounced in the first round and I could see this team making a little run to the Sweet 16. I would like to see us play 2 complete halves against A and M and limit the turnovers. I would also like to see us play decent basketball in the SEC tourney. We do those two things and I would feel better about our chances of making a run.

We left at a minimum 20 points on the floor of baskets we should have made regardless of the turnovers.

As ugly as the final score was and as ugly as we played we still had plenty of chances to be in the game. Did it to ourselves.

[msudawglb]

So my predictions are we beat A&M. Finish 6 in SEC. Win at least 1 in tournament. May need 2. But we will make Sweet 16.

Unless we have a big turn around with our team chemistry, we will win maybe 2 more games this season at best. We only have one true point guard and he is a head case. He is severely doubting his shot right now. He threw up a very bad air ball last night and even has an air ball free throw in the last few games. He's always hanging his head. Holman as bad as he is has to play to rest others and he is also very uncomfortable on the court now. Perry doesn't look very comfortable either. Q is good but if you put your best defender on him, he can be shut down somewhat due to lack of speed (scoring 10-12 instead of 20-22). Ado is not a scoring threat. Basically right now, our scorers are Q, Carter, and some from Perry. That might be ok, but our defense is pretty bad and rebounding is also bad.

We have the talent, but right now, the team is playing pretty bad. Hopefully, they get out of this and get some of their mojo back.

[mparkerfd20]

The fans didn't suck the life out of making it to the Dance. The team did just fine on their own accomplishing that.

[smootness]

It’s pretty amazing how we as a fan base are able to suck the ****ing life out of making it to the Dance for the first time in over a decade and the field hasn’t even been announced yet ..

Here is an idea:

Enjoy the next few weeks knowing we are playing meaningful games In March ..
Bottom line is no one knows what’s going to happen come the dance
Thats the beauty of college basketball . I’m sure all of you honks had Loyola Chicago in the final 4 last year or USCe in the final four in 2017 ect...
Again this isn’t ****ing football , where right now we can prob pencil in 3 or possible all 4 of the teams in the playoffs next year and it’s March

We might lose the first game , we may make it to the elite 8.

So either enjoy the ride the next few weeks. If you don’t give a **** or want to bitch or complain about losing 2 road games agaisnt 2 quad 1 opponents , or I don’t like CBH or I hate watching this team play , or whatever ..take that shit somewhere else and let the few on here that enjoy March madness and us finally being apart of it enjoy it .

Just give it time. Once the bracket is unveiled and we're in it, we start filling out brackets that include MSU games, once we start looking forward to the first 2 days of the Tournament and plan a viewing party for the State game, etc....people will get pumped.

Just give it time.