LSU seeks strong tournament finish
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LSU beat Georgia. Now the Tigers want to copy the Bulldogs.
At the Southeastern Conference tournament this week in Nashville, LSU is hoping to duplicate Georgia’s unlikely run to the 2008 tournament.
Those Bulldogs finished last place in the SEC at 13-16, 4-12 before winning four games in four days at Atlanta to win the tournament.
After beating Georgia 50-48 in Saturday’s regular-season finale, LSU enters this year’s tournament at 11-19, 2-14. The Tigers open the tournament at 2:15 p.m. Thursday (WAFB) against No. 15 Tennessee. The winner plays Ole Miss on Friday.
“Georgia did it,” LSU forward Tasmin Mitchell said of the 2008 Bulldogs run. “They won four games in four days and they did it with a bad record.
“Its open now, it’s really open. Everybody says, ‘Kentucky’ but that’s 50-50. We’re just going to go out there and have fun.”
Head coach Trent Johnson said the key word is “opportunity.”
“It’s an opportunity for us to spoil someone’s season along the way if we are fortunate enough to be successful the first night,” he said.
Ole Miss is a bubble team, so indeed a loss Friday would spoil the Rebels’ NCAA tournament chances.
On paper, a thin LSU roster should not be able to survive on back-to-back nights, even if it manages the upset of Tennessee, which won at LSU 59-54 on Feb. 4 in the only regular-season meeting.
“It is a very stiff challenge for us because we aren’t very deep or strong,” Johnson said. “Our skill level and our deficiencies to score lead you to think you can’t win two games in two nights let alone three or four.
“I’ve never got caught up in that. I’ve just focused on trying to compete in the first game and be close at the 3-4 minute mark. Then, if things go your way, then line up the next night and see what happens.”
In the past two years, the winner of the SEC tournament needed to win the league to make the NCAA tournament.
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