SEC tourney seeding
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As can I. Suspect if we ever play on Wednesday, they'll have to change that for the future.
We could end up in 3 way tie with Mizz and Ole Miss. Not sure of tiebreaker there but if I'm right, we all went 1-1 in that group so think we get 6 seed due to win over Fla. However we could also end up in 4 way tie including A&M if they lose to LSU (not likely I know). In that scenario, we went 2-1 as did A&M. They get 5 seed as they beat AUB. We would get 6 seed. I think this is correct. --- Just saw another post. Maybe we get 5 seed? Not sure how they multiple ties works if 2 team have same record against the group. Could be we get 5 seed over A&M because we beat them. I am now officially confused.
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Here's one very possible scenario:
1) Arkansas beats Miss State Saturday, and Georgia at home beats Vandy. Arkansas would get the #9 seed.
2) We lose to Missouri and get the #8 seed setting up an 8/9 meeting with Arkansas in our first game Thursday. This assumes Ark easily wins their Wednesday game against #16 SC.
1) Arkansas beats Miss State Saturday, and Georgia at home beats Vandy. Arkansas would get the #9 seed.
2) We lose to Missouri and get the #8 seed setting up an 8/9 meeting with Arkansas in our first game Thursday. This assumes Ark easily wins their Wednesday game against #16 SC.
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If Arkansas plays Wednesday that will be a pretty big crowd. Their fans always have a good showing.
Crunching numbers to see what SEC team we might play again next week. Madness! lol
figures that a team we are about to play loses the game before
Yes because Missouri sucks so bad.. I am just glad they are not a Quad 1 team and top 15 in the nation.... [eyeroll]
*Loses their last two before playing us. Doesn’t matter. UK will be locked in and ready to play.
Put him on ignore. He's not a UK fan. I think we’ll have a hard time winning as well, but that dude plants negativity here like he’s paid to do it.
I go every year. Imo they bring a very good crowd. Im sure it isnt as good as when they were national title contenders, but good nonetheless.
UT and Bama now have huge presence too. Auburn brings a decent crowd.
UK still has the most but Tennessee isnt far behind. Much changed while everyone was asleep at the wheel and let other programs pass us up.
Alot of UK fans that went nearly every year( like me) stopped going because we realized Cal didn't give a rip if we win a single game in it and coached like it.
I never stopped going. Seems most that went didn’t stop either.
If we end up playing on Wed it will be the first SEC tourney game I’ve missed since they brought it back in ‘79.
Yeah, I forgot SC thumped the Hogs recently. No easy games. Should be a great tourney.
I know what you mean, but that loss really helps us because if we can beat Missouri Saturday, we can now overtake them in the seeding. Also it helps us with Ole Miss, because if they lose to Florida, we would be in a three way tie and Ole Miss wouldn’t be ahead of us despite the H2H win.
Again assuming a win over Mizzu.
Didn't we win the SEC tournament like six times during Cal's tenure here?
Seems like a lot for a guy that didn't care or coach like it.
Yep one of the silliest narratives is that Cal didn’t care about winning. Was it his main priority? There are arguments to be had. Didn’t care? Simply a ridiculous notion.
I always feel that's one of the biggest misconceptions on this board. It's partly cause of Cal and his quotes. The whole players first, draft night in 2010 being one of the most important in UK history etc etc. I get that.
But I always thought that was a means to the ends. To win you need talented players. To get talented players you need to show that you care about them and their dreams of making the NBA. I always thought the two went hand in hand.
Cal has a massive ego. There was no way that man did not care about winning lol.
And consider that mizzou won @uf. Wbtw, was UF's only home loss for the year.
They beat Bama
They beat Ole Miss
They came close to beating the Vols at UT.
Mizzou is an x-factor team. More then most teams, they can beat any team and lose to any team. If they play at the top of their ability and top 5 teams has a "B" performance....they win.
Cal didn't seem to worry much about the SEC tournament his last seasons at UK.
He won 6 SECT championships in his first 8 seasons. But from 2019-2024 he had early exits and won only 2 total games. (Covid year had no tournament.)
Wanting to do something and successfully doing it are not the same. I’m sure Brian Scalabrine wanted to be the next Michael Jordan.
Exactly just because we didn't have success doesn't mean he didn't want to have success. Two different things
The SEC Tournament seeding situation if UK wins today appears to be the following:
- TxA&M wins & Ole Miss wins = 7-seed
- TxA&M wins & Ole Miss loses = 6-seed
- TxA&M loses & Ole Miss wins = 6-seed
- TxA&M loses & Ole Miss loses = 5-seed
mred's SEC MBB Tournament Seeding Tiebreaker
Southeastern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament Seeding and Tiebreakers
bball.notnothing.net
Here's where you can play the what if scenarios. If UK wins today and some others games fall the right way they could move up to the 6 or 7 seed which would move them to the other bracket and avoid Auburn.
If Auburn wins today, I am not sure Auburn is a bad draw. They really have nothing to play for. They have already locked down a 1 seed, and probably the overall 1. A win over Bama at home on Senior Night tonight would definitely lock up the overall 1. They have little to gain and so they might just “show up.” Pearl is smart enough to know that his team could use the rest and a SEC tourney title means nothing in the grand scheme of things. Could be wrong, but Auburn might be the best team to face of the top four for that reason.
rick64, that's the program I used. Do you think my breakdown above is correct based on what you've looked at? It seems that if UK wins, then maybe the only team results that matter are TxA&M and Ole Miss.
We are the seven seed at the very worst now. Have to wait on two more games to know where exactly we will be.
Six seed. Thursday night at 9:30 est against maybe Georgia or Oklahoma.
Hell at this point, give me the 6 or 7 so we end Auburn in the semis.
If Florida beats Ole Miss I think UK is the 6 seed. Otherwise the 7 seed.
