KamaCausey_LSU

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If they beat Gonzaga, I'm not sure if they'll even break the top 25, they'd at least receive votes though. And keep in mind that many in the college basketball world, including AP and coaches' poll voters, despise Wade and could let personal feelings affect how they vote for LSU.

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LSU got 3 votes in the Coaches Poll this week. Beat Gonzaga in Spokane and LSU will very much jump into the 15ish range. Beat Houston in Houston and they'll have earned a Top 10 ranking.

Realistically, LSU likely drops both games. Still, there is a lot of basketball to play. As long as this 3 game start isn't a fluke (the elite defensive numbers indicate it's not); LSU should be solid favorites in every other non-conference matchup. High Point is the only other non-conference game vs a team picked to make the Field of 72.

eta: I could see LSU dropping one of SMU/Arizona State as those are neutral site games out in California and "that's basketball".

12-2 or 11-3 in the non-conference slate, and LSU will be in a very good position heading into SEC play.

Agreed. Dent is LSUs most important player. Ugochukwu can run point but the offense just doesn't flow since he's not a threat to score. Really when Dent is out the offense is probably best run through Ruzic instead of the switch/screen action that we run a lot with Dent.

Curious what the main rotation will be tonight. I'll predict Dent, Clark, Niang, Dioubate, Ruzic be the main rotation tonight. But so far Niang/Dioubate have been working similar positions, so likely we see a lot of 3 guard play with Ugochukwu and one or the other between Niang/Dioubate at the 4.

Like others have mentioned, not a great matchup defensively for Dessert so he'll probably get limited minutes. Probably a 25/15 or 30/10 split for Ruzic/Dessert.

Calling it now, and playing the law of averages that tonight's the night the the shots finally start falling for Clark.

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wait till next year when we lose Seaton and Moore... b/c like you said:

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I think Miret will be good at Center; and hopefully Martinez can step up too.

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The correct read was actually to hit Green. If you let that play develop Green was wide open after breaking left across field as both bama defenders over perused. He literally walks in the endzone if he waited just a second later

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I don't think he had time for that with the RT getting pushed into his face.

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Excited for this one. La Tech is a pretty good step up in competition from the first 2 teams we've played, albeit still a team we should somewhat easily handle (the line for reference is -30.5 LSU, which I think is too much personally).

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Same. I think LSU wins easily, but 30 points is a lot to cover.

Think I'm going to lay off for this one. Then again, if the 3s finally start falling then LSU can run LA Tech off the court.

Alabama isn't eilte. LSU played that poorly.

Going to be hard to keep him off of Naismith/Defensive POTY watchlists.

Dessert kept being late setting screens at the top of the key while the guards were trying to set up the offense.

I'll give folks a pass. It's Friday night before the Alabama game and LSU is a 36 point favorite vs a SWAC team.

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Interesting to see how they will do against a conference opponent that has a pulse and compete

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Luckily this season they have a few solid non-conference matchups. Villanova (projected 7-seed), NC State, North Carolina, and UConn.

Definitely still a concern about them matching up with teams with size.