League preview, picks, predictions: The SEC (College Basketball 10/29)
Eye On College Basketball
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🗓️ 29 October 2021
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Our final big conference preview homes in on a league that could send as many as eight to the tourney. Parrish and Norlander save their longest league preview for last, as the SEC has eight compelling teams with realistic chances of making the 2022 NCAA Tournament. The league breaks down into three tiers: some combination of Alabama, Kentucky, Arkansas and Tennessee. Then a quartet of Alabama, Mississippi State, Florida and LSU. And then the other six teams, of which at least one could reasonably be the surprising breakthrough and finish in the top half of the conference. Let's dive in.
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| 0:55.6 | The final link that must be discussed is the SEC, which is another conference that seems |
| 1:00.7 | completely up for grabs. And here's some evidence to support that claim. |
| 1:04.8 | In the preseason, Mediapol, it was Kentucky who was voted the favorite in the SEC. |
| 1:11.2 | But my pick is Arkansas. Deadlicks, pick is Alabama. And Kempheim and Torbjitt both have |
| 1:16.3 | Tennessee as their highest ranked SEC team. So, in the big east, I think, the only sensible |
| 1:21.9 | pick in the preseason is Villano. And in the pack 12, there's really no data to support |
| 1:26.4 | picking anybody other than UCLA in the preseason. But in the SEC, you can reasonably pick |
| 1:32.3 | one of four different teams at least. Deadlick, I think I've asked you this before, |
| 1:36.4 | perhaps about the big 10. Forgive me. But is the SEC on second pop? |
| 1:42.1 | Is the SEC the most up in the air power conference in the country? Or do you just expect Nick Saban |
| 1:50.3 | to win it somehow? Oh, I never rule out old Nick, for sure. I think that the big 10, |
| 1:57.2 | I'm going to maintain what I said before about the big 10. That's going to be the most |
| 2:01.2 | compelling best race at the top with the best teams. But if you're looking for the most |
| 2:06.9 | variety and you just laid out the evidence why that's going to be the case, the SEC is the |
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