SEC Basketball (that actually matters) has finally started and we’re catching you up on what has happened so far. We start with the bottom half of the league and will catch you up on the top half next!
Welcome to the SEC college basketball season!
Yes, the NCAA schedule says that “technically” the first scheduled games were on November 13, 2015, but we all know no one was watching. At least not like they will be now, but I digress.
Wait, I have one more point.
The College Football Playoff Championship, or the National Championship as we call it, was played a couple of days ago and not a single SEC fan was truly paying attention to SEC basketball. It really is a shame that we don’t give SEC basketball the same attention that we give football throughout the course of the season, but there is a reason.
The first 15 games of a SEC basketball season usually look like scrimmage games. Yes, they are playing hard. Yes, the win matters. But, the execution simply is not there. It can be quite ugly at times. As Andy Kennedy of Ole Miss loves to say, you are what you’re numbers say you are. And the numbers say SEC basketball kind of sucks to watch in the beginning of the season.
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Then, halfway through the season, everything seems to click. Teams that have got it together begin separating themselves from the rest of the field, and now we can form favorites and underdogs we semi-firmly believe in. We have to have the need for something to be “at stake” for us as audience to be fully vested in what we are watching.
Timing wise it matches perfectly. Football is over, basketball is starting to mean something, and boom — we’ve got an audience. Now let us catch you up to date at where we are at so far in the SEC basketball season.
We’ll give you the teams in order of their SEC rankings and, starting next week, we will publish our own power rankings to gauge where each team is at in the season. One thing is certain though, Kentucky is no longer the lone basketball team of national importance in the SEC. But before we can reach the top, we have to discuss the guys in the cellar.
Next: Wait, I thought these teams were good?