A lot of that has to do with the competition as well. Still they are playing better regardless. Barton has finally come on and Maymon is moving better and decided he wanted to be the garbage guy, thats his role on this team. Our freshman pg played at 50% yesterday.....half the time he would make a horrible play and then come back and make a good one. May have hit the wall. Barton has taken some pressure off of McRae and when did Armani Moore learn to shoot? That came out of left field.
That said if they play with the effort they gave yesterday they would not be a bubble team. I still think we are limited from a talent standpoint, and if we play a quicker team, or a team with a real post player we will have problems again. We may make the tourney but I don't see over 1 win if we do, depending on brackets, seeding and upsets of course.
That said UF is benefiting from a bad league as well. When they play someone better they may have issues too, although they are the class of the league from coaching to talent.
The SEC has been down for a few years now, but I don't think it's EVER been
this bad. So it definitely gives me pause that we've made this run against some pretty weak teams. That said, we're not just squeaking by them anymore- we're hammering them. When Barton and Richardson are hitting shots from the perimeter, we're a very tough team to defend. We're pretty reliant on second chance points, too- so if we run into a strong rebounding team, that could mean trouble.