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But this team is as hot as anybody in the league right now, and if anybody is going to emerge from the bottom half of the league, it's going to be them. The Commodores aren't even a bubble team due to a sketchy non-conference SOS and four sub-100 losses (Rutgers, Georgia Tech, Mississippi State, and Tennessee, for those keeping score at home), while their best win is over. The bottom eight teams in the league enter the tournament as auto bid or bust, and out of that group, the one I'd peg as most likely to do it is (HOMER ALERT) Vanderbilt. Well, remember, stealing a bid requires that you beat Kentucky. I mean, it's been a week since Georgia had them on the ropes, and remember Georgia is a bad team according to the people who insist that Florida is a good team. That's probably much closer to reality than the ESPN narrative: they're the favorites, to be sure, but the idea that they could lose a game here is not something induced by huffing paint thinner. Ken Pomeroy hasn't published his Log5 of the SEC Tournament at the time I'm writing this but I suspect he'll be giving Kentucky something like a 75-80 percent chance of winning it. Does Anyone Other Than Kentucky Have A Chance?Īccording to ESPN, no, but then they aren't just pushing this Pursuit of Perfection© thing for ratings, I'm sure. And they're basically a lock if they get to the finals since that (in all likelihood) would mean they beat Kentucky. Texas A&M is cooked if they lose on Thursday, probably 50-50 if they lose to LSU on Friday, and a bit better than that if they get to the semifinals. Ole Miss probably just needs to survive their Thursday game against South Carolina or Missouri. My gut tells me that LSU will get in fortunately, the bracket pretty much guarantees that they won't pick up another bad loss. You can count on Kentucky, Arkansas, and probably Georgia as well. Somewhere between four and six, in all likelihood. Missouri really sucks and unlike Florida, nobody pretends they're good. Auburn plays defense like they do in the NBA All-Star Game. South Carolina is coached by Frank Martin (you know what that means.) Mississippi State is. Tennessee started hot, but it turned out to be smoke and mirrors. Florida sucks, but a lot of people pretend they're good for some reason. Texas A&M "hasn't beaten anybody*" (*except LSU, a terrible team in the context of A&M's tournament resume.) Ole Miss has a really good offense and so-so defense. Georgia has guys who can flat out play, but gets treated as though they're trotting out random guys from the student section. LSU alternates between really good and godawful depending on the day of the week. The Cliffs Notes version of the rest of the SEC goes like this: Arkansas is good. Why not go for the gusto and ask if Kentucky would beat an actual NBA team? It's gotten to the point that ESPN is posing "Who would win a best of 7 series, Kentucky or the Philadelphia 76ers?" as a legitimate question. You also might have learned that Kentucky is the Harlem Globetrotters and the rest of college basketball is the Washington Generals.Īnyway, Kentucky will lose a game in either the SEC Tournament or the NCAA Tournament because ESPN has spent the last two months building them up as some sort of invincible juggernaut and we all know that ESPN is never, ever wrong about these things. If your only knowledge of college basketball in general, and the Southeastern Conference specifically, comes from the talking heads at ESPN, then you might have been convinced that Kentucky plays in the rough equivalent of the Southland Conference. Kentucky is really good, they're probably going to win the SEC Tournament, yadda yadda yadda. This isn't ESPN, we don't have to use their silly Storyline They've Been Pushing For The Last Two Months. The SEC men's basketball tournament kicks off on Wednesday, and with it we have some storylines. LSU/Alabama/South Carolina/Floridaġ–3 vs. LSU/South Carolina/Texas A&M/FloridaĢ–3 vs. Alabama/South Carolina/Texas A&M/Floridaģ–2 vs. The top 10 teams received a first round bye and the top four teams received a double bye, automatically advancing them into the quarterfinals.Ĥ–2 vs. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. Seeds Īll 14 SEC teams participated in the tournament. The winner, the Tennessee Volunteers, received the conference's automatic bid to the 2022 NCAA tournament. The 2022 Southeastern Conference men's basketball tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the 2021–22 Southeastern Conference men's basketball season, held on March 9–13, 2022 at the Amalie Arena in Tampa, Florida.
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