From the "let's really really really get carried away" department comes the prediction that LSU will be in the 2016 Final Four.
Yes, the team that is losing two players to the NBA but that has signed Ben Simmons, the nation's No. 1 high school recruit, as well as top 50 guard Brandon Sampson with a commitment from five-star guard Antonio Blakeney, is being projected by valueaddbasketball.com to join Kentucky, Maryland and Villanova in next year's Final Four.
The valueaddbasketball.com website calculates how many points better a team is with a particular player than without him.