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A&M is up to 42 in NET now. A win vs UF could get them closer to top 30 as well.

South Carolina dropped out of top 50 so yesterday’s W isn’t a Q1. Today’s vs State is so now we have 2 Q1s. STATE is also now 32 in Met so if they bump up two more the home W va them could go to a Q1. Lunardi and some others now have us as a 3 seed. Going to be close

Old miss did not move up that win won’t jump to Q1. South Carolina didn’t move much from their first round win. So our home win will not bump up to Q1 but today is a Q1 opportunity on a neutral floor with uSC at 48 in the NET. Hoping for MSU win vs UT to boost the MSU win but not holding my breath.

Kansas has lost their 3 seed. Someone will bump up to the spot they were holding.

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Quadrant 1: Home 1-30, Neutral 1-50, Away 1-75 Quadrant 2: Home 31-75, Neutral 51-100, Away 76-135 Quadrant 3: Home 76-160, Neutral 101-200, Away 135-240 Quadrant 4: Home 161-353, Neutral 201-353, Away 241-353 Nope, they are live. Losses: Neutral to Baylor (14 Net) Road To APP St. (72) Risk of dropping to quad 2 loss if they drop out of top 75 To Bama (8) To Miss St (42) To Florida (35) To UT (5) Home To UK (19) Wins that could improve to quad 1s: Road win at Ole Miss (90 needs to get to top 75), home win vs Miss State (42 need to get to top 30), Home win vs SOuth Carolina (49 needs to get to 30). Potential opponents as Q1 opportunity: South Carolina (49) in round 3, Miss St or UT in round 4, UA or UF or UK in round 5. So in a perfect world, we win 3 Q1 games and two of our existing wins bump up to Q1 and suddenly we have 6 Q1 wins. I agree usually the SEC tourney doesn't move the needle much, but we may be an exception if anything remotely close to that happens. But if App St. drops to a Q2 loss and we lose our first game, we could drop a seed line as well.

Normally I would agree with you. However, I think one thing holding us back with human voters is we only have 1 quad 1 win right now. If we win a couple games and therefore quad 1 wins, it may matter. (Also, if Miss State wins a couple they would likely bump back up to a quad 1 win).

Can we really know anything? What is truth.....

Does a team hang a banner for a 5-way tie for regular season title? Has a five way tie ever happened before in the SEC or other Major conference?

I don't think the details of the Neville donation were ever released. I recall it being a donation to the athletic dept. so it wouldn't be able to be used for NIL anyway.

Big game tonight so lets take a look at a couple of our losses against high powered offenses and see whats up. Vs Alabama on the road we held them 12pts below their season average. That is a huge accomplishment by our defense, but our offense put up 7 points under our average. We only shot 20% from three. Vs. Florida on the road we held them nearly 5 points below their season average, but only shot 17.5% from three. Vs Kentucky at home we held them 18 below their season average, but shot 18.2% from three. Oh and we shot 11% from three vs App St and 25% from three and only 33% from the field vs Ms. State. The only game where we played well offensively and lost was the first game of the year where we gave up 88 to Baylor losing 82-88. So, can we make enough shots to beat UT? Auburn averages 80 pts a game in away games and UT averages 82 pts a game at home this season. Not as big a differential as I expected to find when I went looking. We are very similar to UT across statistical categories. The two areas that have gotten us beat are poor shooting and rebounding. If we can shot close to our averages and win on the glass I think we can get this one. An area to watch that is interesting is that UT gives up more free throws per game than they take. They still make more than their opponents, but this one may come down to the charity stripe. That puts our guards as the focus point. Has Holloway turned a corner after a mid season adjustment? Can Jones make us a few shots? Will the Donaldson that was so clutch in tough games at the end of last season re-emerge? Not knowing the status of J. Williams, our guards will have to get the ball to Broome, Chaney and Cardwell in favorable spots to score. Can CBM pick up the scoring slack again. A lot of interesting things to watch tonight. Not the least of which will be how do we guard UT. Do we go big with Broome and Cardwell together or can Chaney hold up? A win in this game is huge for the SEC race, but it is also huge for our tourney resume. It is a seed changer type win. A loss doesn't effect seeding much, but pretty much puts us out of the SEC race.

Now at 194 wins, realistic chance to get to 200 this season with a few post season wins.

I guess I am missing something. It seemed like your brother was "putting all this" negatively on CBP. Didn't seem like he was giving credit, maybe I missed something. Also, with your inference that CBP recruits and hopes for the best, getting lucky sometimes and not other times. Maybe I am not the only one missing something. Not sure why the need for anything extra on replies. Its ok for us to just disagree. CBP, and most modern college basketball offenses, have a framework of cuts, passes, movements etc that the player work within utilizing a lot of read and react decision making in the process. We have one of the highest assist to baskets make ratio's in the country. That alone should dispel any misplaced idea that there is no offensive structure and it is just a bunch of one on one iso going on. I'm not sure what "discipline plays" are to you, but there isn't a situation where our team is going to come down and make a series of predetermined passes and cuts to get a specific shot, except for special circumstances.

I have no info, but looking at the schedule if they sat him the full remaining regular season he would have almost an entire month to heal/rehab as the SEC tourney started. I hope he gets at least a little action before the NCAA so his first game back isn't a win or go home game.

I hear you, and I'm not sure we really disagree on the coaching salary issue. But Malzhan did things that had all been done before. Pearl has done things that have never been done at Auburn or even the entire State of Alabama. Yes a national championship is the ultimate goal, but to dismiss a final four just seems short sighted.