re: Why do so many SEC fanbases dislike/are indifferent toward basketball?

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I'd love to hear some stories about Bernard King

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Guy was simply awesome. His freshman year (1974-1975)he was named First team All-SEC and the SEC was STACKED that year. Scored over 20 in both games vs UK (and they lost to UCLA in title game) and had over 30 in Tuscaloosa vs Alabama, the SEC co-champ.

But he was a head case. Took a swing at Butch Feher and got kicked out of the Vandy game in Nashville in '76 and while being escored off the court he ,ahem, displayed 'an complimentary hand gesture'. A lot of people at the time maintained that Mears' nervous breakdown was attributable to him after the 1977 season. Got in a lot of trouble at UT that was 'settled out'.

Because of some odd rules at the time, Tennessee's path to the Final Four in his soph year (76) was incredibly easy, but they lost in the first round to VMI of all teams. Mears' final team ,his jr and Grunfeld's SR (76-77) was as talented as any team in America, including national champ Marquette, but again,they lost in the first round.