This is a young team and the schedule is rough going forward. We have @Oklahoma, Auburn (2) @Tennessee, Arkansas, @aTm, @LSU, Florida and @Missouri (where we never play well), in addition to MissStake, Georgia, a bad @USCe team, and Vandy, before we head to the post season.
Do we have a good enough team to win them all? Yes. Can we lose any of them? South Carolina beat Kentucky at Rupp. If we play every game to our capabilities only @ Auburn and Tennessee should give us problems. I have seen us play like the team we are most of the games, but I have seen us have mental lapses at times during the season. If we get Burnett back and in shape, we will be a tough out for anyone else. I keep waiting for Welch to play like the player he was in the A-10. JQ is finally starting to play healthy.
If we keep going, I could see us getting to play the first two games of the NCAA at Legacy Arena and after that, as long as we do not run back into UCONN or Purdue, I could see us getting to the Elite 8 or higher. February 11 @ AULC & 15 @UTK will tell us if this is going to be a 1 seed team in the NCAA tournament.
Like the rest of you, Saturday Night at Missouri scares the heck out of me. Missouri does not miss foul shots when they play Alabama and if the Ref's call 50 fouls on Bama, like normal in Columbia, we have no chance. When you play a team on the road that is 14-4, hits 34.7% from 3, and 75% of their free throws, before they play Alabama, you had best be concerned. Missouri is probably the fourth best team left on our schedule.