Comparing this year's basketball team to last year's at the same points

Last year we were solidly on the bubble for most of the way down the backstretch before playing our way into the tournament as a 10 seed with a 21-11 record. Below is how we stack up This Season (TS) to last (LS) at randomly picked intervals.

Non-Con slate
LS: 9-3
TS: 7-3

LS had a poor loss to tech and respectable losses to gonzaga and minnesota. TS had a bad loss to chattanooga and idk much about how good SH and KSU are.

1st 5 SEC
LS: 3-2
TS: 2-3

LS- losses to Ark and LSU, wins against vandy, UF, OM.
TS- losses to UF, OM, aTm, wins against mizz, UT

through 10 SEC
LS: 6-4
TS: 6-4

This year's SC win looks to be the best between the 2 groups. Also at this point, we are currently 13-8 while last year were 15-7. Our RPI shoudl be pretty good but it hurts not having a few more wins.

Remaining schedule after 10 SEC games
LS: @atm, AU, SC, @bama, @OM, Mizz, UK, @AU
TS: @UK, @msu, UF, @van, @au, OM, @SC, bama

Last season inexplicably dropped home games to AU and SC, but then beat bama and OM on the road to cancel out. They finished 11-7. Also note they won 1 game in the SECT.

TS has 2 games that are most likely probable losses, with 6 tossups.




I had said the entire offseason I thought the losses would be a bit much to overcome, and that we'd miss the tourney but be solidly in for the NIT. As of now I still feel that way. Some of the new guys have done better than I thought but the holes left by marcus and nemi are pretty stout. My hope is that we can break serve so to speak and steal a game or two that we shouldn't win to get us back on teh right side of things.