Backer, if you'll remember, you didn't look like Omaha material in 2007 at about this point. You were in the middle of a skid where you were losing something like 9 of your last 11 SEC games to take you from a potential national seed to a 2 seed traveling. Then you won 5 straight to get to Omaha.
Point being, the tournament is a whole different animal. I've seen teams of ours that looked really good at this point that choked. 2004 comes to mind. We were 18-10 with 2 games to play in the regular season having won 4 straight SEC games. Then we lost our last two conference games, lost 2 straight in Hoover, and went 0-2 in our own regional to finish off an 0-6 slide to end the season.
Then you look at a team like yours from 2007 that stumbled to the postseason only to get hot and make it to Omaha. If Bittle comes back next week at 100%, we've got as good a shot as anyone at getting hot and making a postseason run. The games we're playing right now are strictly for seeding purposes and where we'll be placed in the brackets.