re: Looking forward: 2017-18 SEC Basketball season

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But Petty and Sexton will have the same set of growing pains that Heron and Wiley had to go through this year.

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Petty will, but Sexton is the best player that either team has signed since the Pearl/Johnson era started. Auburn has more good ones on their roster, but Sexton is a bona-fide superstar and has proven ito at the highest level, nationally and internationally.

Doesn't mean he'll waltz in and win Conference POY, but I don't expect him to disappear into the crowd much.