re: Updated SEC Basketball Standings; plus weekend schedule

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South Carolina is also a game out of first place, and while their schedule isn't too difficult down the stretch, it does consist of two decently tough road games. While a 2-1 finish very likely wouldn't be enough for a share of the conference title, it would lock up a top 4-seed in the SEC Tournament. As for their NCAA Tournament outlook, South Carolina really just needs to win their last home game against Georgia, and then avoid a bad loss in Nashville. Worst case scenario would obviously be to lose the rest of their games (including their first game in the SEC Tournament against a lesser team), which would would put their RPI in the 60s, and have them on the outside looking in. That seems unlikely, though, at this point. Look for South Carolina as an 8 or 9 seed in the NCAA Tournament.

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SCAR will be a six or seven seed if we finish strong.

Why go so negative on us in this write up? Why not look at the other side of the coin?

If SCAR goes 2-1 over these last three games, we're 25-5, 12-6 in the SEC headed into the tourney as a Top 4 seed.

We're very capable of winning two in the tourney.

We've got the tie breaker if it comes to that, over everyone in the top half of the league with the exception of Kentucky.

If Kentucky loses to Vandy, which is a possibility, and both A&M and SCAR finishes on a run, it's a three way tie for first with A&M have the tie breaker over KY, KY owning the tiebreaker over SCAR and SCAR holding the tie breaker over A&M.

SCAR is better than all three teams remaining on their schedule ... if they play like it they could win all three.

A&M has the easiest row to hoe by far - that's a given.

But I'm willing to bet you are wrong about how SCAR finishes implying they'll go 1-2 in their final three and only win one in the SEC tourney and end-up a bottom half seed.

But hey, that's just my opinion and everyone has been pretty much wrong about SCAR all season long ... so this is nothing new.

You'll never see SCAR fans going "if only" or "what if" about the games we lost this season because that's not how the game is approached ... college basketball is all about seeding and getting to the dance, that's all.

But you're going to be proven wrong about our seeding. We'll be seeded higher than 8th or 9th.