LSU is off to a 10-1 start in the [autotag]Matt McMahon[/autotag] era, but this team is still not earning much national respect as it prepares for the final game before conference play begins.
The Tigers rank just No. 81 in the NET primarily thanks to a weak non-conference schedule. They’re 0-1 in Quadrant 1 games, though they won the lone Quadrant 2 game on the schedule against Wake Forest. Still, this team will have a lot to prove once SEC competition starts next week.
LSU is not considered an NCAA Tournament team, though it is on the fringe. Per the latest bracketology update from ESPN’s Joe Lunardi, the Tigers are still among the Next Four Out.
We’ll know a lot more about this team soon, though. The switch flips for McMahon’s team when SEC play begins, and the first month of the schedule is absolutely brutal. Every game in the month of January is currently either a Quadrant 1 or 2 contest.
It certainly isn’t worth stressing about tournament positioning right now for the Tigers, given how much there is still to learn about this team, but it would only take a big win or two for them to find themselves in the projected field.
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