The SEC usually has 1 or 2 elite teams, and maybe 2 or 3 more tourney type teams. That's not terrible. But the bottom half of the league, in any given year, is definitely terrible. That doesn't mean the good teams aren't dangerous in March, as Cal and Donovan keep demonstrating. Also, from when I was younger, I remember a whole bunch of years where the SEC had some nasty teams. Corliss Williamson was the man.

But as has been said, the same can be said in reverse for football:

If SEC Football Is So Good, Then Why Did Mizzou Make The Conference Championship Game?

For the past decade, whenever a non-SEC team is weighed against SEC teams, it is assigned 2, 3+ more losses than what they accumulated in their own conference. Using this logic, 2013 Mizzou would have won 9 and lost -1 in the B12, where they were decent but unspectacular for years.

But losing only one regular season game? (because Connor Shaw went quasi-Christ and a kicker blew a chip shot, which doesn't mesh with the idea that non-SEC teams would crumble because an SEC schedule is too taxing and physical.) If anyone would have predicted that two years ago, they would have been laughed at.