SEC Basketball to Date : Best Wins, Worst Losses, Overall Rating

We'll have a worse loss than #88 in the next two weeks. Stay tuned.

#trueson

Good news is we really only have 1 totally embarrassing loss so far as a conference (thanks clanga).

That's improvement!



KNOCK ON WOOD

How is Arkansas losing to Georgia tech a bad loss when Georgia tech is higher ranked?

I saw the Wichita State game, but how did Bama do against ND? We're shots finally dropping, were y'all just crushing them down low, or was it like Wichita State where you basically took away anything underneath and made them shoot from the perimeter?

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how did Bama do against ND

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I honestly think we played about as well as we could play. We started off red hot making every shot we took. Granted, they were good looks, open looks that were created through good offense, but we still generally can't make them. Then we cooled off and Notre Dame made a run and for the rest of the game we pretty much drove the lane and either made contested shots in the paint or kicked out and made outside shots.

Our big guys basically played Auguste to a draw and we ran the best offensive sets I have seen since......I don't know, ever?

Notre Dame was flat early but they were balanced in the 2nd half once Auguste got some looks down low. They did a lot of inside kick out action and got some open 3's, but we switched zone to man to zone quite a bit and it stole us a few possessions.

I don't think Wichita is much more than a bubble team, especially without Van Vleet, but that Notre Dame team was a solid ballclub. That was the best full basketball game we have played in 3-4 years.

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SCAR's schedule suddenly has a pulse ...

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Very much so. Whoever said it didn't is a moron. Wait, who, what

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I wasn't really impressed with Wichita and their record speaks for itself. But the ND win I legit. The Colorado game has me a little worried about our bigs but they were going up against a freaking stud in Scott. Harris has some nice post moves but hasn't been very good on defense. Horace Spencer is the exact opposite of Harris.

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Yea, Wichita is going to be a steal of a win for us (I don't know why I say this, we won't be going to the NCAAs so our resume talk is moot) because Van Vleet will come back and they will win a bunch of games in the Missouri Valley and end up with an RPI of 40 or 50.

I've watched Auburn quite a bit between UAB, Ga Southern and Colorado, and they just kind of seem to be working out playing together. There are a lot of talented parts on that team, especially on offense. Once Pearl gets them all to trust eachother and establish roles that is going to be a super explosive team. And that doesn't even include Purifoy. In a league full of teams who struggle to eek out offense Auburn is going to win a few games just because they will give a normal offensive performance and the other team will shoot poorly (UGA, Bama, Arky, Mizzou, State, TN, etc come to mind).

And, outside of Kentucky, probably not going to play many other teams with bigs like Colorado has.

Where are these rankings coming from?

I know Alabama is off to a fairly hot start, but a #44 ranking for Wichita State looks a bit generous.

Wichita is currently 1-4 and sits at #257 in the RPI. Hard for me to believe any service that has a 1-4 team ranked in the Top 45.

I know it takes a few weeks before the RPI begins to make much sense, but again, there is no way Wichita is the #44 ranked team at this point in the season.