SEC Basketball

[VegasDawg13]

Would we all agree the conference as a whole has disappointed thus far? I thought we had a chance at being the second best conference behind the ACC, but I'd say we're pretty firmly 4th and closer to the Big East than we are to the Big XII or B1G.

The top tier of teams have so far held up their end of the bargain. Kentucky has rebounded nicely from their opening night blowout. Tennessee and Auburn have only lost close games against top 3 teams and otherwise taken care of business without a scare.

The (projected) bottom of the conference (UGA, aTm, Ole Miss, and SCar) has been far from a disaster. Only Georgia is currently outside of KenPom's Top 85.

But of the teams in the middle, I'd say the only one that has met or exceeded expectations to this point has been Arkansas. Bama, Missouri, and Vandy have been particularly disappointing.

I know it's still early, but we all need to rack up some wins over the next month before we start beating each other up. Otherwise, someone who expected to be dancing is going to hit a slump in February and find themselves in trouble.

 

[mstateglfr]

So the top teams have delivered and the bottom teams are far from bad. Additionally, one of the middle teams has exceeded expectations.
Okay then so basically just a few teams in the entire conference are less than what was projected.

you don't mention Mississippi State in this rant which is odd since it's a Mississippi state board, but I would say that they have met expectations so far. They have only lost one game and it was a close one to a currently ranked team.

That makes it 3 out of 14 havent met your expectations. Doesnt seem worthy of declaring disappointment, but we all have varying levels of approval.

 

[57stratdawg]

I don’t know what’s going on at Bama, but they were like 1-5 against the spread recently. Been a tough year so far.

 

[WutheringDawg]

I’m coming at this from a very uniformed perspective because I have not been dialed in to the sport as closely as I was pre-Ray, but it seems like under the current one and done model makes it really hard to evaluate a league’s success & if they’re good or bad this early in the season.

 

[VegasDawg13]

So the top teams have delivered and the bottom teams are far from bad. Additionally, one of the middle teams has exceeded expectations.
Okay then so basically just a few teams in the entire conference are less than what was projected.

you don't mention Mississippi State in this rant which is odd since it's a Mississippi state board, but I would say that they have met expectations so far. They have only lost one game and it was a close one to a currently ranked team.

That makes it 3 out of 14 havent met your expectations. Doesnt seem worthy of declaring disappointment, but we all have varying levels of approval.

Three out of fourteen have significantly under-performed, but I think we, Florida, and LSU have slightly under-performed as well. It's close with us, and maybe my expectations were too high. Even if you don't count us, that's three that have significantly under-performed and two that have slightly under-performed. There's no one that has significantly over-performed and maybe two that have slightly over-performed.

This could all turn around in the next four weeks, but the time to rack up resume-boosting non-conference wins is running out faster than it seems. There are several of us that lack key wins right now, and we can't all get them against each other.

And how our conference performs in the OOC portion of the schedule is absolutely relevant to Mississippi State basketball.

 

[MSUDC11]

I’m coming at this from a very uniformed perspective because I have not been dialed in to the sport as closely as I was pre-Ray, but it seems like under the current one and done model makes it really hard to evaluate a league’s success & if they’re good or bad this early in the season.

Agreed. It would be like saying the SEC is down in football after Week 3. I think there are pretty clearly 2 or 3 teams that are really good, a couple that look like they might really struggle, and then 75% of the league I have no idea about.

 

[The Fatboy]

Another one of these "fans" that think that if you dont start the game on a 20-3 run you are underperforming. This ain't titty ball son.

 

[hogfan14]

Missouri and Vandy lost their best players for the year to injuries, so I would cut them some slack. Really hurts the depth of the conference without those two being as good as they should be though.

Alabama might be my most disappointing team so far. Seems like they have too much talent to lose to Georgia State.