When's the last time there were nine SEC teams in the top 25?

[Son_Of_Saul]

Has it ever happened before?

#4. Auburn
#7. Tennessee
#8. Kentucky
#9. Alabama
#18. Florida
#19. Arkansas
#20. Texas A&M
#23. Ole Miss
#25. Mississippi State

 

[Ron Mehico]

Georgia just beat ranked St. John’s and Vandy is undefeated too. SEC is going to be brutal this year.

 

[kywildcat41035]

Toughest conference in basketball and football!

 

[JonathanW]

10 SEC teams (add Texas) in the top 28, and 3 more (UGA, Vandy, LSU) getting votes in either the media or coaches poll.
So only Missouri, SC, and Oklahoma are not getting votes.

 

[HerrosHeroes]

Toughest conference in baseball, basketball and football!

FIFY

 

[WildcatNC]

Could be 3 in the top 5 next week too.

 

[know1]

Toughest conference in basketball and football!

Until the tournament starts.

 

[BlueBomb]

SEC: It just means more.

 

[Fox2monk]

Has it ever happened before?

#4. Auburn
#7. Tennessee
#8. Kentucky
#9. Alabama
#18. Florida
#19. Arkansas
#20. Texas A&M
#23. Ole Miss
#25. Mississippi State

None that I recall, plus Georgia and Vandy are good as well. I think if we make it thru that grinder with 3-4 losses we will contend for the title and a high seed. Not gonna be many easy wins this year.

 

[ccukuk]

Probably not, but then again a lot of them were

Until the tournament starts.

Yes that does seem to happen each year doesn’t it?

 

[Greatestalltime]

Until the tournament starts.

You mean before the tournament selection committee starts.

 

[Digger-Cat]

Even the lower level teams are good.

The thing with the SEC is, everyone seems to be playing tough OOC games, so these rankings are earned.

I can't recall who it was last year, maybe Brad Brownell, who accused the BIG12 of gaming the system to appear to be a better looking conference. He very well may be right.

 

[Padsfs07]

There were 9 in the preseason poll.

This will easily be the best year of SEC hoops up to this point.

 

[YardCat]

Could be 3 in the top 5 next week too.

Of course, that won’t make headlines. That might be brought up if Cooper Flagg isn’t playing that week.

 

[bbncal02]

But but but our schedule sucks! /s

I mean, just going by the T25 , we will have or will played 5 top ten teams (Duke, Tenn, Auburn, Bama, Zaga)
Does anyone else play that many T10 teams?

 

[BradleyCrawford08]

Really makes me excited for conference play. Got some potentially good games on the horizon and a lot of opportunities for quality wins on the tournament resume.

 

[Digger-Cat]

But but but our schedule sucks! /s

I mean, just going by the T25 , we will have or will played 5 top ten teams (Duke, Tenn, Auburn, Bama, Zaga)
Does anyone else play that many T10 teams?

We play two of those teams twice.

 

[bbncal02]

We play two of those teams twice.

Yep, so potentially SEVEN T10 games. We win most of those and we should be no lower than a 2 seed.