Huge by-the-skin-of-our-teeth win tonight at Arkansas, 60-59, just as things were starting to look like the team was going to collapse and spiral out of control.
Auburn, Xavier, and South Carolina are next before the fund starts again against teams like Vanberbilt, Florida, and Tennessee. Have to take advantage of a low point in our schedule while we have the chance.
I say, to make the tourney without having to have our showing in the SEC tournmanet help us, we need to win at least 21 regular season games, which means Xavier plus 5 more SEC wins.
So, basically 10-6 in the SEC gets us there without beating Xavier, or 9-7 if we do beat Xavier.
Without one of those two combinations (ie we go 9-7 in the SEC but don't beat the X-men), we'll have to go deep into the SEC tournment to get pushed in.
If we are 8-8 in conference, we will need to at least be tourney runner up. Worse than 8-8 in house (which means we'd have a losing conference record) and we need to win the SEC tournment to make it to the Dance.
So, bottom line. Finish above 500 in conference and take care of the out of conference team we have left and we'll more than likely be dancing come March.