SEC PREVIEW: Florida, UK preseason favs; Auburn post-Bruce; Bama and Tenn still stacked. What does the league do after its best season EVER?
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
The SEC sent a whopping *fourteen* teams to the NCAA Tournament, had 2 teams in the Final Four and had the national champion come from their conference. So what will they do for an encore? Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander preview the SEC on a fresh episode!
00:45 - Let's take a look at the champs (Florida)
10:32 - How close can this year's SEC be to last year's?
11:33 - How far can (allegedly) 22 million get you if you're Kentucky?
21:08 - Can Arkansas have a normal season?
24:18 - Auburn in the Steven Pearl era
30:00 - League predictions
57:05 - How many SEC teams make the NCAA tournament?
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there. I am Gary Parrish. Welcome back to the CBS Sports Eye on College Basketball |
| 0:18.6 | podcast where we sometimes discuss camel fighting |
| 0:21.5 | dodo birds and leaky black if you're watching on YouTube you know what to do to the like |
| 0:26.1 | button shouts to Brandon Davies and if you haven't yet subscribe to the CBS sports college |
| 0:29.9 | basketball YouTube channel I don't I don't know what you're doing let's get into it we are |
| 0:34.7 | here to continue our conference previews. We're previewing some of the |
| 0:39.7 | best conferences in college basketball. Today we are turning our attention to the South Eastern |
| 0:44.9 | conference. They call it the SEC for short, where the reigning national champs, Ty Golden's Florida |
| 0:50.3 | Gators, are the projected favorites. So Norlander, let's start with Florida, if you don't mind. |
| 0:55.6 | The Gators, they lost their top three scores from last season's team. That was Walter Clayton, |
| 1:00.1 | Elijah Martin, and Will Richard. All three of those players were very good college guards. |
| 1:06.0 | So the back court is going to look a lot different in Gainesville this season, but Florida did do good work in the transfer portal. |
| 1:13.9 | They added Xavier-Leave from Princeton, |
| 1:15.6 | Boogie Flan from Arkansas and A.J. Brown from Ohio. |
| 1:19.3 | As a result of those developments and other things, |
| 1:22.7 | Florida is third in the preseason Associated Press top 25 poll, |
| 1:29.6 | which means Florida is actually ranked higher coming off of the 2025 national championship. Then Yukon was ranked coming off of the |
| 1:36.4 | 2023 national championship, even though Yukon, of course, obviously went on to be back-to-back |
| 1:43.0 | national champions by winning that |
| 1:45.0 | 2024 NCAA tournament. |
| 1:47.2 | So I guess this is the first question. |
| 1:49.0 | Are you a believer? |
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