SEC Basketball vs the Torvik Top 100 - post-Thanksgiving Update & This Week in the SEC

The worst losses are

#112 Utah (Ole Miss)
#101 New Mexico (Mississippi St)
#90 Arizona State (Texas)
#80 UCF (Texas A&M)
#69 Kansas St (Mississippi State)
#59 Butler (South Carolina)
#56 Northwestern (South Carolina)

No, the SEC is probably not quite as tremendous as last year. But it's still the best bball conference again.

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the SEC is probably not quite as tremendous as last year.

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Can't remember a year when the league had so many good guards. Every Tue/Wed/Sat was a battle.

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Top 100 wins
3 - Alabama, Florida, Vanderbilt

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Big 3

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Forgot the #1 Torvik ranked team, Michigan. They look ridiculously good right now.

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Yea I was only listing the depth teams. Purdue, Michigan, Michigan State at the top is a formidable trio. I would have listed Illinois a few weeks ago, but not sure they are on that level. The coaching changes at Illinois and Iowa are huge shots in the arm because both of those guys can flat out coach.

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We will learn a lot about LSU in the next few weeks playing SMU and Texas Tech. I refuse to believe McMahon is a winner, but this is a team Will Wade would easily have in the dance.

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Metrics really like what LSU has done so far, even against a relatively weak schedule. Need to take care of business at BC and then beat Texas Tech.

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I think Michigan deserves to be ranked #1 in the AP Poll after what they did at Player's Era Tournament.

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Without a close 2nd. That was one of the greatest weeks of regular season basketball in modern history, and none of it seemed fluky or heat checkish.

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SOG, would you agree with the comparison below to last season's teams? Seems like the league might be a little more balanced but definitely not as good at the top.

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Yea I think I'd agree with most of that.

I'd only change

Ole Miss - worse

Oklahoma - at best even, possible worse

Texas - I think up by the end of the year but right now pretty similar

Kentucky - they might put it all together, but while this team has more talent 1-12, I think last year's team was a much better fit for Pope's style. This team feels like a bunch of very good role players mashed together without any great shooters in a system predicated on shooting.


But yea - last year the last KenPom Rankings had this

3. Florida (Champ)
4. Auburn (Final 4)
5. Tennessee (Elite 8)
6. Alabama (Elite 8)
16. Kentucky
18. Texas A&M
19. Missouri
22. Ole Miss


Currently

10. Vanderbilt
11. Kentucky
13. Tennessee
14. Alabama
16. Florida
22. Auburn
23. LSU


It's still a good league, and maybe even slightly deeper than last year, but I don't think there are the elite teams at the top that there were last year. At least not at this point.