Some reason for optimism with WBB...
Posted on: January 17, 2020 at 10:46:47 CT
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Our opening SEC schedule has been just brutal, which magnifies how bad the team looks. 5 games, 4 against top 25 teams, plus LSU, who is projected to make the NCAA tournament, beat TAMU on the road (even before Carters injury they were playing them tough), and last night gave Miss St all they could handle in Starkville, losing just 64-60. LSU must be kicking themselves for losing to us, but it was their own fault with their awful 1st half shooting putting themselves in a huge hole they couldn’t quite dig out of.
What would any other team do if they played SC, Miss St, Tennessee, and Arkansas in their first 5 games? And next, after a breather @ Ole Miss on Sunday, we get 3 more top 25 teams, @ TAMU, Kentucky and Arkansas. That 7 top 25 teams in the first 9 games, plus the aforementioned LSU. No one in the conference has that kind of brutal schedule in the first 9 games. If we somehow find a way to upset Arky at home, we can be 3-6 in those 9 games, if not, then 2-7. Then, after all that, it’s two more road games against Georgia, a borderline NCAA team, and LSU. That's 9 or 10 of the first 11 games against NCAA tourney teams.
Only in the last 5 games of the year do we get any break at all, facing Florida, Vandy, Ole Miss, Auburn, and Alabama, no one even resembling a top 25 team in that bunch, and only Vandy being anything close to a bubble NCAA team.