Rock meet bottom
On what was supposed to be a joyous day where the program welcomed back the 1999-2000 SEC Champions and Sweet 16 team, Texas instead—excuse my language—beat the fuck outta LSU 89-58.
The 31-point margin is LSU’s biggest loss against an unranked team since 1966.
There’s literally nothing good to say about LSU’s effort today. The Longhorns shot 56 percent for the day and a blistering 68 percent in the second half. Texas scored as many points in the second half as LSU did all game.
“Incredibly disappointed we weren’t able to respond better coming out of the break,” Matt McMahon said after the game. “In the first half we struggled offensively but we were dialed in on defense.
“Then turnovers led to easy scores and then their offense took off and we weren’t able to respond.”
LSU, who ranks 331st in turnovers per game, turned it over 15 times which Texas turned into 18 points.
The most disappointing part of Saturday’s loss isn’t the margin of victory—thought that doesn’t feel great!—but it’s who dealt LSU the beating. The SEC currently has 10 teams ranked in the AP Top 25, and four in the top-10. Texas is not one of them. Texas (15-7, 4-5) is a perfectly mediocre squad that’s probably an NCAA tournament team provided they keep hanging around .500 in SEC play. But this wasn’t Auburn or Alabama or Kentucky or Tennessee who did this to LSU, this was a team that’s currently tied for 10th place in the SEC that came into Baton Rouge and kicked LSU’s head in.
I’m not a fire the coach guy but I’m not sure what excuses Matt McMahon has left. Through two+ seasons he’s currently 43-43 but 12-32 in SEC games; there’s still 10 more conference games left to play this season, and six are against ranked teams.
Unless this team finds a new gear, it looks like LSU will finish last in the SEC for the second time in three seasons under McMahon.