For the Florida Gators (16-7, 6-4 SEC) to reach their goal of a comfortable seed in the NCAA Tournament they’ll need to avoid taking any bad losses and that will be what’s on the line February 13 when they take on the LSU Tigers (12-11, 4-6 SEC). Importantly for the Gators, LSU is currently 94th in the NET and with the game taking place in Gainesville it will be a quadrant-3 game. This means Florida doesn’t have much opportunity to build their resume in this instance but a loss could certainly hurt.
LSU is in their second year under head coach Matt McMahon, a name that Florida showed some interest in during their coaching change.