ESPN calls SEC basketball "scary"

Article looking at all the conferences. ACC and SEC seem to have the highest praise. Big 12 as well, but SEC is clearly better as of right now. How mad are other people. We own baseball...own football...now we are trying to take basketball too.

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The SEC returned some of the top talent in America. Players such as Texas A&M's Robert Williams, Florida's Chris Chiozza and Kentucky's Hamidou Diallo all came back.

The league added impressive talent, too. Florida grad transfer Egor Koulechov. Kentucky's incoming class, ranked No. 2 by ESPN.com. Alabama's Collin Sexton and John Petty. But that's not a new concept for the SEC. Putting it all together and fulfilling its potential has been the problem for the conference in recent years.

That should end in 2017-18, because the SEC seems capable of towering above any league in the country right now.

A lengthy, athletic, acrobatic Kentucky squad full of future NBA draft picks lost to Kansas in the Champions Classic, but the Wildcats will overwhelm most opponents they face. Texas A&M, which could win this league, has victories over West Virginia, Oklahoma State, Penn State and USC. And it's not even December.

Florida beat Gonzaga in double overtime and battled No. 1 Duke in the PK80 Motion Bracket title game, proving the Gators can tussle with any opponent in the country. They made 32 3-pointers in their first two games of the event. Their small-ball attack will present problems for any opponent. But that's just the top. Arkansas crushed UConn and topped Oklahoma. Tennessee beat Purdue last week. Missouri blew a double-digit lead in a loss to West Virginia on Sunday, but Cuonzo Martin's squad will be a handful for SEC foes -- even without the injured Michael Porter Jr. -- if it continues to play with the same fire.