Looking at the SEC schedule

[Go47]

Does this team, sitting at 1-2 in conference, finish 9-9?

I think that’s best case.

 

[walkenvol]

1-17….is that how it works after an ugly loss in a conference road game?

 

[JohnnyJava]

I’m thinking 11-7? Road games will be a struggle except against a handful, and UT will defend TBA fairly well. That’s my hope at least.

 

[Special Ed]

I'd like to thank Rick Barnes and this team for giving me a good reason to ignore college basketball the rest of this season so that I can spend more time on all my other bad habits.

 

[KB5252]

I agree with a lot of you, somewhere around 9-9 will hopefully be the worst case scenario. What would that get us maybe 8-10 seed?

What sucks is getting your best recruit ever and having one of your worst seasons.

Biggest question is do we think Barnes coaches another couple of years while the youngsters not going into the draft develop and we have another legit shot at a tournament run?

 

[Frozevol]

I'd like to thank Rick Barnes and this team for giving me a good reason to ignore college basketball the rest of this season so that I can spend more time on all my other bad habits.

I just canceled my Sling subscription until September.

 

[TheMookieMonster]

I still think 10-8 is the floor and would wager 11-7 is where we end up. The SEC is overall not that great. Florida was not your typical “unranked” team. They’re 12th on KenPom.

Florida is a bad matchup for us. I think we’ll protect home court this year, lose 5 more road games, and scrape two road wins from South Carolina and Miss State.

 

[LivinginthePast]

Unranked in football now unranked in basketball. Who knows what baseball holds.

 

[TheMookieMonster]

Unranked in football now unranked in basketball. Who knows what baseball holds.

I am a believer in Elander. Think we have a huge first year under him.

 

[hUTch2002]

I still think 10-8 is the floor and would wager 11-7 is where we end up. The SEC is overall not that great. Florida was not your typical “unranked” team. They’re 12th on KenPom.

Florida is a bad matchup for us. I think we’ll protect home court this year, lose 5 more road games, and scrape two road wins from South Carolina and Miss State.

You don’t think we will lose at home? I do.

 

[VolFreakJosh]

You don’t think we will lose at home? I do.

Our guys play really well at home.

On the road? Not so much.

 

[Big Orange Captain]

We will make the tournament again but we won’t go far. I think this is Barnes last season.

 

[sami]

1-17….is that how it works after an ugly loss in a conference road game?

It's not the loss. I'm hardly one to overreact, but there are some really disturbing trends with this group that there doesn't appear to be much progress in fixing. It's really simple - if you routinely waste possessions and have trouble hitting FT's, it's going to be really hard to beat good teams. I assumed that they would begin to really jell in league play.

They're talented and deep enough to be at worst a 20-22 win, first weekend type team, but to expect more than that there has to be some efficiency and valuing of possessions, and certainly some serious improvement at the FT line.

The question is can those improvements happen or is what we see exactly what this group is about?

 

[Go47]

They did get curb stomped at UF last year, but this is a very different team with issues that I don’t think wil see a lot of resolution.

I agree with 11-7 . . . As a best case scenario.

The conference is not as strong as last year, but I also don’t think 9-9 is an unreasonable look at it.

 

[hUTch2002]

Our guys play really well at home.

On the road? Not so much.

They do play better, but they’re wildly inconsistent and there’s no way that won’t bite them against Vandy, Bama, UK, Auburn or someone else.

 

[TheMookieMonster]

You don’t think we will lose at home? I do.

It’s possible, maybe we lose once, but generally all Barnes’ teams play great at home. I just can’t see this team picking up any big road wins.

 

[Thunder Good-Oil]

I'd like to thank Rick Barnes and this team for giving me a good reason to ignore college basketball the rest of this season so that I can spend more time on all my other bad habits.

You’ll soon be blind and with hairy palms, too.

 

[hUTch2002]

It’s possible, maybe we lose once, but generally all Barnes’ teams play great at home. I just can’t see this team picking up any big road wins.

They do but this isn’t a typical Barnes team. The inconsistency will bite them at least twice at home.

 

[hUTch2002]

You’ll soon be blind and with hairy palms, too.

He’s already a blind Sasquatch, so it’s all good.

 

[Special Ed]

You’ll soon be blind and with hairy palms, too.

I passed that stage long ago.

 

[hUTch2002]

I passed that stage long ago.

Yep. I’d really stop sharing the pic with everyone though.

 

[Go47]

I adjust my thought.

This team finishes 8-10. Chances are pretty good they are sitting at 2-5 by Tuesday after next.

Playing at Bama has been a house of horrors for UT even when we are really good . . .

UGA is good this year and this team looks pretty soft overall . . . But especially on the road.