re: Dawgs Basketball Season Thread // 18-8 (6-7) // Next: Saturday 3:30PM vs Texas

despite the doom and gloomers we're still very much in good shape for the tourney. I think 3 more wins would be nice to say we have 20 but we'd probably be on teh wrong side of the bubble since we'd have a losing conference record which would suck, so wouldn't love our chances. 4 more wins puts us at .500 in the league and solidly on the bubble but IMO we'd be on the right side of it. 5 more wins and I believe there's no doubt .


Feb 11 (Wed) 7:00 Home Florida - L
Feb 14 (Sat) 3:30 Away Oklahoma - TU/W
Feb 17 (Tue) 9:00 Away Kentucky - L
Feb 21 (Sat) 3:30 Home Texas - TU
Feb 25 (Wed) 7:00 Away Vanderbilt - L.
Feb 28 (Sat) 3:30 Home South Carolina - W
Mar 3 (Tue) 6:30 Home Alabama - TU
Mar 7 (Sat) 3:30 Away Mississippi State - W

There are 3 definite Ls, and although we know they're coming in advance I'm sure people will complain anyway. SC and @MSU are the kind of games, like yesterday, that if we want to call ourselves a tourney team we absolutely must win so let's count those. I tend to put OU in that same boat but somehow they won at VU yesterday. Weird. Let's go ahead and call that a "should win" anyway. That's 3 wins.

So between Texas at home and Alabama at home, it'd be nice to win one of those. IMO that would be enough to make it. In this scenario we'd probably be seeded somewhere around ~12th in teh SECT. If we are seeded anywhere between 9-12 we're in great shape as those seeds get the dead bottom of the standings.

All in all, we are still very much in the mix and if I had to hazard a guess, I'd say taht Lunardi will still have us as solidly IN during his next projections. These next 3 games will suck for our fanbase because we're losing at least 2 of them, and then everyone will say the season is over and we have no chance. But our tourney chances aren't going to be decided in the next 3 games; it's those last 5 that are really going to make or break us.

Don’t want to be a party pooper but aren’t we 17-6 and not 17-5? The header says 17-5.

I’d think Vandy on the road and Florida tomorrow (actually a chance at home with Cyril not getting ejected) are the toughest games we have left.

I’d say the only guaranteed win is South Carolina at home.

Other than that, this team could win or lose every other matchup. We just need to keep our energy on defense, draw fouls, hit the open 3s and make free throws….we do that, we have a chance to win

Still think we are looking at an 9 or 10 seed right now.

Damn we are cooked tomorrow.

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we were holding our own with them in gainesville before somto got ejected. I'm hoping we can at least somewhat even out that battle with him playing.

JW being out really sucks though. I don't necessarily hate a Blue/Smurf situation but we just have zero room for letdowns now. Blue has to get his shite together and a nice showing from ross would be ideal as well.

Early....they need to bench Cain and Cyril has been knocked down 3 times.

Wth Cain pissed...Just posterized Condon.

The way we are going to have to beat Florida is push the ball with Catchings and Wilkins.

We’re getting good looks in spite of whatever these dick head commentators are saying. We’re just not making shite. Just bad basketball.

Joining late. Looks like we may hit 50 points tonight. Always a welcome milestone