Is 1st place in SEC West possible?

I ask because I don't get to see any of the basketball games -- with the exception of the horrible loss to Kentucky a few weeks ago.

They seem to be playing pretty well lately -- what's the prognosis for the rest of the season?
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Not sure if 1st place in the West is possible, but an NCAA tourney bid is possible, which is really the goal these days.

I don't believe any SEC team has ever been denied an NCAA bid (since the expansion to 64 teams) with a 10-6 SEC record. We are 6-3 right now, so that means LSU needs 4 more wins. The remaining 7 games are ... @Ark, @MSU, Fl, Bama, @AU, @OM and Vandy.

I believe 10 wins is the magic number for an NCAA bid. 9 wins would require LSU to win a couple of SEC tourney games and would be a bubble team. Anything less than 9 wins would mean LSU must win the SEC tourney to get the auto NCAA bid.

 

the prognosis is they play very well at home but can't defend or throw the ball in the ocean on the road. it's all going to come down to games against MSU, FL, Bama and Vandy. We have to pick up a few quality wins against these NCAA teams to have a shot a the tourney or its NIT again.

 

IMHO, Ark=loss, MSU=win, Fl=win, Bama=loss, Au=win, OM=win, Vandy=win, for a 11-5 SEC record, which gets them in the tournament. Then they make a spectacular run, playing at their max potential until they lose in the final game on a last second buzzer shot by Duke. However, Instant Replay shows that time had run out before the ball was thrown.

Brady is raised to diety status, the bashers retreat in the woodwork, and the last shovel of cow manure is thrown atop Dale Brown's coffin.

Less than a year later, Miles goes undefeated, no game ever in doubt, and crushes South. Cal., who had been favored by 22 pts.--even though they squeaked by Cal, Stan, OS, AS, WS, and UCLA-- in the BCS Championship. Trev Albert's limp body is found hanging from a light fixture in a Motel 6.

Miles hand picks recruits from across the nation, best recruiting class ever assembled, and LSU Dynasty talk sweeps the nation, with fans as far away as Timbuktu.

Meanwhile, Saban agonizes over who the number one pick in the NFL draft will be, and pops another Nexium.

Two years later, with LSU on the verge of a three-peat, Wayne H's private jet crashes in the gulf of Mexico enroute to Baton Rouge. Unsympathetic, Saban carries on with a planned press conference that same afternoon. With a spattering of reporters before him, a few cameras clicking, he forces a smile as he dons a Vanderbuilt cap, and then says, "It's great to be back in the SEC."

 

That's actually pretty funny.

 

Frogleg that was a nice write up, but you didnt mention how LSU women will cut the nets down this year and win a national championship.
Unfortunately, I don't LSU or Puke coming close to the final 4 on the mens side. But I will give credit to the Mens team and to Brady, they have been playing alot better lately, and are really tough at home.

 

Yes, indeed, the LSU women's team will cut the nets down this year, and the next, and next,etc...Their dominance is eventually compared to, before surpassing, the great UCLA men's teams of the sixties.

 

Frogleg, that was great! You really had me til the plane crash! I guess I was envisioning starting the crash (like a touch and go) off the scoreboard in Tuscaloosa, and then putting the plane right through the uprights at Auburn....

 

LOL