Underachieved , overachieved or right on par?
I personally think second weekend is the target with this team.
I don't know how to explain it but we are about to go 7-1 since we dropped the game at home vs Kentucky. I am not sure that had we won that game, we would have gone on to win 3 games on the road against Bama, Georgia, and Mississippi State. Those Kentucky losses were gut punches and I think they did more to help our team than it did to hurt our team. We should easily be a 2 loss SEC team tied with Florida, but I'm not sure that we would be considered as good as Florida.
This team is tough and I think they are just ham and egging it to get thru the season. If we wind up finishing a 3 or 4 seed in the SEC given the December we had, I think we would be peaking right at the right time going into the tourney.
Vanderbilt has somewhat fell off a good bit given their start. I think the only trap game left for us would be the 24th at Mizzou. But if we finish, 23-8 at worst and top 4 finish in the league, I think the expectation should be second weekend.
We can all talk about the schedule, but if were to finish 12-2 after that Kentucky loss in Knoxville, I would be very confident going into March Madness.
One thing I have noticed since the loss at home to Kentucky, JG, Ament, Player 3 getting a combined 60+ points leads to us winning. Some games it has been Boswell, others it has been Estrella.