How many SEC Teams will occupy the Sweet 16? EE? FF?

[Edgarman]

Games will definitely be called tighter. That will be bad for most SEC teams.

The games I have watched in non SEC games the refs are allowing way more contact than any year that I can remember. The Big 10 games are as rough or rougher than SEC games.

 

[Creed Bratton]

Damn, you all are scaring me.

I think for most people it's been that the SEC schools have burned us in the past. Last year we were supposed to be strong and stunk up the tournament.

 

[Digger-Cat]

I mean...I hope only one SEC team makes the Sweet 16, etc, and that would be UK.

Outside of playing UL or IU, I hope the SEC gets obliterated in OOC games or during the NCAAs.

All these SEC schools/fanbases loath UK and UKs fans, have no idea why we would want any SEC school to perform well in March.

To answer the question, I think 4 in SS, 3 EE, and 1 FF.

I've seen you say this about other fanbases before. How do you know every fan from every fanbase wants to see us lose?

I don't think that's accurate when we're talking about out of conference games. I see more conference honkers out there that defend the SEC than I see guys that say they want the SEC to fail.

I don't think non UK fans want us to win a title, but every fan of a team in this league has been made fun of for 30 years about how weak the sec is, it's only natural to want to turn the tables.

I want Tennessee to maybe get to an E8, but I need to see who their opponent is before I decide who to pull for, because if it's duke… ..Go Vols.

 

[EliteBlue]

S16 5 (Auburn,Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky)
EE 3 (Auburn, Florida, Alabama)
FF 2 (Alabama, Florida)

This is probably as accurate as you can project it without a bracket.

 

[Digger-Cat]

Count me in the camp as well in the I don't care what other SEC teams do in the tournament.

My entire focus on the tournament is only what UK (and St Johns to a lesser extent) do.

If the SEC gets two teams to the final four that's great and all but really has no bearing IMO unless one is us.

But if a team UK beat, or swept, smacks the crap out of a top tier team from another conference, I like that, it makes UK look better.

Also, we get crushed on national boards after every loss, I want to see the teams those fans cheer for get obliterated by SEC teams, just to show how strong the competition UK has been playing was.

It all comes back to the accomplishments UK has this season. If the SEC falls on it's face, well, our wins don’t look as impressive and our losses look worse.

 

[nickhorvathsuxazz]

12 make the tourney. Five make the Sweet Sixteen. Three make the Elite Eight. One in the Final Four.

With so many teams and the rules being relaxed, more SEC teams will face each other earlier. The league will cannibalize itself in the second round and Sweet Sixteen.

Also, I figure some teams will get upset. The SEC has literally beaten up on each other the last few months and that might be their undoing when refs have tighter whistles. Plus several SEC teams are dealing with injuries. And sometimes the best league just doesn’t perform as well as expected come March.

5, 3, 2

 

[Digger-Cat]

After reading the Kenpom newsletter about historically good conferences regressing come tournament time, I'd definitely be cautious throwing a bunch of them into the S16.

I could easily see both things happening:
1) An SEC team winning the title (or making a Final Four)
2) The SEC as a whole not performing as well as their seeding suggests.

When does the pendulum swing our way? The SEC stunk for the last 30 years and stunk in the tournament. The BIG12 and ACC were good in the regular season and the tournament. This is the best any league has ever performed, at some point, the SEC has to break through in the tournament and this should be the year.
Although, there are so many SEC teams getting in, we're just going to take each other out.
If the SEC is truly the best conference of all time, that means there is no history on how a great league like that performs in today's college basketball landscape.

 

[Digger-Cat]

I'm the opposite.

We've beaten them twice by making them shoot 3's. I think the difficulties from 3 make them prime for an upset.

Yeah, I don't see Tennessee going anywhere, this isn't 1985 where defense wins championships, it's more of an offensive game now. You have to be able to score and they only have a couple of legit scorers and neither are Dalton Knecht level guys.

 

[CapnBlubs]

This tournament is going to be incredibly complicated for someone neurotic like me to watch.

I have to worry about all our non-conference blue-blood-ish enemies as usual:
Duke, UConn, Kansas, Louisville, UCLA, Indiana (surely UNCrap will be left out?)

Former coaches:
Arkansas, St. John's

And all the other hated SEC rivals...while simultaneously not wanting the SEC to look too terrible, potentially negating the current and future perception of our strength of schedule.

If I had to pick one of the top four SEC teams to win it all, it would VERY begrudgingly be Auburn. Can't EVER cheer for Tennessee, Florida is run by a certified pervert, and Alabama is run by a guy who harbored murderers. So, process of elimination.

 

[JonathanW]

Bids: 13 teams (but 12 if Okl loses to UGA, I just assume some mid-major Conf Tourny upsets bump them out)
2nd Rnd: 9 teams
S16: 6 teams
E8: 4 teams
F4: 2 teams
Final game: 1 team

 

[UKWildcats1987]

13 make it in.

6 make sweet 16.

4 make elite 8

2 make final four.

Sec team wins title.

The sec bitchslapped everyone ooc. Idk why anyone thinks that's gonna change n the ncaa.

 

[ukcatz12]

Kenpom had an interesting article a few days ago about the SEC and the history of dominant conferences in the tournament. Spoiler: it's not good. Most of the time the narrative around good conferences is locked in by January, because from that point on it's just conference play. To be considered a really great conference usually requires a little overachieving in the non-conference schedules, and after that point teams have a tendency to revert back to normal. But if conference strength narrative is already locked in based on non-conference results teams falling back down to earth isn't really noticed.

If I were to bet I'd fade the SEC in the tournament a little.

 

[villefan76]

My Final Four is Texas Tech, Auburn, Duke & Florida. Duke & Auburn in the finals. Auburn, National Champs.

 

[the nail at the foul line]

I think for most people it's been that the SEC schools have burned us in the past. Last year we were supposed to be strong and stunk up the tournament.

That was then. This is now. Ken Pom articles and history mean nothing. The SEC is strong.

I will be here to eat these words if needed. I hope.

I hate this phone. It puts in words I never type.

 

[Creed Bratton]

That was then. This is now. Kentucky Pom articles and history mean nothing. The SEC is strong.

I will be here to eat these words if needed. I hope.

I hope you are right but you can only be Charlie Brown so many times.