MBB Final: Louisiana 71, Southern Miss 82

[no1cajunfan]

I believe that it’s important to be seeded 1 and have a post season major tournament locked up. It’s important to be seeded as well as possible if we get to the NCAA tournament.

It’s better to be 27-5 than going to the NCAA tournament at 5-27.

So the constant reminder that the NCAA is the only thing that matters is wrong, and possibly stupid without context.

If you don't win the SBC tourney you're not going anywhere, so I will agree to disagree with your assumption.

[CajunEXPRESS]

If you don't win the SBC tourney you're not going anywhere, so I will agree to disagree with your assumption.

Well the NIT is still a somewhere, and you gotta be the number one seed to get there in almost every single case. Secondly you don’t build a program by simply winning three to five games in March, that’s luck.

I don’t know about you, but I’m more about building the program than getting lucky every dozen years or so. In any case we’re not on Fantasy Island. The road to anything just got exponentially more difficult.

[no1cajunfan]

Well the NIT is still a somewhere, and you gotta be the number one seed to get there in almost every single case. Secondly you don’t build a program by simply winning three to five games in March, that’s luck.

I don’t know about you, but I’m more about building the program than getting lucky every dozen years or so. In any case we’re not on Fantasy Island. The road to anything just got exponentially more difficult.

NIT is an irrelevant tournament. No team in the entire country begins the season with their goal to make it to the NIT. You can't win a NATTY going to the NIT. Thats like making out with your sister. I'd rather say UL is 16-14 but consistently wins the SBC tournament and makes regular appearances in the NCAA toury than to say we are 25-5 and go to the NIT. I think recruits would much rather play for a team that makes the big dance consistently no matter what the regular season record is than to win 20-25 games but never goes to a relevant tournament, but that's just me.

[CajunVic]

. . . your numbers are even, but your analysis is odd . . . ain't nobody making the tournament from the Sunbelt with a 16-14 record, trust me . . .

[anhil8tor]

Secondly you don’t build a program by simply winning three to five games in March, that’s luck.

Don't tell Mags and Marlin that...

[ULvictory]

. . . your numbers are even, but your analysis is odd . . . ain't nobody making the tournament from the Sunbelt with a 16-14 record, trust me . . .

It's rare but teams with similar records have made it to the tournament (App State 2021 and WKU in 2012).

With that said, building more consistency during the regular season along with tournament appearances is what grows the program. Getting hot one weekend doesn't. See: Last season.

[CajunVic]

It's rare but teams with similar records have made it to the tournament (App State 2021 and WKU in 2012).

With that said, building more consistency during the regular season along with tournament appearances is what grows the program. Getting hot one weekend doesn't. See: Last season.

That just isn't happening with the new 14 team Sunbelt . . . the days of luck getting you there in the Sunbelt have been tremendously diminished with the existing competition level . . .

[ULvictory]

That just isn't happening with the new 14 team Sunbelt . . . the days of luck getting you there in the Sunbelt have been tremendously diminished with the existing competition level . . .

I'm all for it. Your conference doesn't get better with musical chairs. It gets better with consistency of competition among good programs.

[CajunVic]

I'm all for it. Your conference doesn't get better with musical chairs. It gets better with consistency of competition among good programs.

. . . oh, its a great thing . . . and basketball is not baseball . . .

[no1cajunfan]

. . . your numbers are even, but your analysis is odd . . . ain't nobody making the tournament from the Sunbelt with a 16-14 record, trust me . . .

Only thing to trust is my final analysis. You win the final game of the SBC tourney you're in. Your regular season record does not matter at that point.

[GeauxCajuns]

If we were fortunate enough to have southern miss drop another one, who has the tie breaker, if we have same conference record and split the home and home?

[MelRock]

If we were fortunate enough to have southern miss drop another one, who has the tie breaker, if we have same conference record and split the home and home?

We have the tiebreaker if I am reading everything correctly. That is assuming Marshall wins out as well.