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.
How many SEC Teams will occupy the Sweet 16? EE? FF?
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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.
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.
This is probably as accurate as you can project it without a bracket.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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
2nd Rnd: 9 teams
S16: 6 teams
E8: 4 teams
F4: 2 teams
Final game: 1 team
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.
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.
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.
If I were to bet I'd fade the SEC in the tournament a little.
My Final Four is Texas Tech, Auburn, Duke & Florida. Duke & Auburn in the finals. Auburn, National Champs.
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.
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I hope you are right but you can only be Charlie Brown so many times.
It will change when the SEC dictates refs call our conference games the same way the NCAA calls the tournament. Until then SEC teams will get upset when they suddenly can't push, shove, hack, and assault on defense.
Yeah, I will not be rooting for UT to get to an Elite 8. Ever. Hope they, and Auburn, and Bama, and UF, and whoever else you want to include from the SEC lose in the first round.
Some of the vilest fanbases are in the SEC, and considering we play some of these teams twice a year, I wish them no luck in the tournament.
We "might?" be the best in history but there has been other historically good conferences. They all regressed in the tournament.
Now that doesn't mean the SEC will, just something to keep an eye out for I guess.
I don't get the argument about games being called tighter.
In the last decade, the SEC has been the one power conference that calls the most fouls. If anything, the games "wont" be called tighter and they will let them play a bit more.
Now whether that helps/hurts SEC teams I have no idea.
In the last decade, the SEC has been the one power conference that calls the most fouls. If anything, the games "wont" be called tighter and they will let them play a bit more.
Now whether that helps/hurts SEC teams I have no idea.
Every fanbase has ********. There isn't a fanbase out there that is loaded with 100% nice guys that use phrases like "awe schucks" or "Golly gee".
I've even seen a Michigan fan tell me that Wyoming has the absolute worst fans. He lived out there for a few years. I mean, where did Wyoming fans learn how to **** talk?