In late May, Will Wade hit the road, and if he was nervous, it would’ve been hard to blame him, considering his team’s struggles away from home prior to his departure.
Plenty went right in Wade’s first season at LSU: the Tigers quadrupled their conference win total from the year prior, knocked off the eventual national runners up during the regular season, and earned the program’s first postseason victory in nearly a decade. Off the court, he landed a top five recruiting class and re-energized a dormant hoops fanbase in Baton Rouge.
But Wade, like any good coach, tends to worry far more about the things that go wrong, and it was clear where his focus needed to turn before year two: winning road games.