A must win to get the debbie downers away from here. Good lord. We have people saying we'll be lucky to make the tourney are clueless. Everyone knew that this 6 game stretch wasn't going to be easy. Most thought we would lose to Arkansas, but many thought we would win against Auburn. Still, the Auburn lose will not be considered a bad loss come tournament time.
We currently have the 5th hardest SOS and are still in the top 25 RPI. We don't have a single bad loss at this point. Nova, UNC, and Ark are all top 10 in the RPI and Auburn is 21st.
We could lose to UK and still make the tourney. We need to at least get through this brutal 6 game stretch 2-4. From there just going 7-5 and beating Iowa State would still get us in the tourney as a bubble team at 19-13.
I still think that this team will go 3-3 during the stretch and then finish 8-4 and beat Iowa State. Which would put us at 21-9 and would firmly get us in.