9 SEC MBB teams won 20+ games

I dont think it was that big of an accomplishment for Miss.State or Auburn.. anybody could have won 20 with their schedules.

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Alabama 20-16

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This feels worse than the Shula years when Bama would go 6-6 and the fans would defend it with "at least we're bowl eligible!"

I mean Bama did play the 3rd toughest schedule in the country with the 4th youngest team. Im real excited about this coming up year.

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Auburn 26-8
Tennessee 26-9
Kentucky 26-11
Miss State 25-11
Arkansas 23-12
Texas A&M 22-13
Florida 21-13
Missouri 20-13
Alabama 20-16

Huge step forward this year by the SEC!

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There'll likely be a number of negative comments here because, for some reason, many SEC fans seem to take the "glass half empty" approach to new levels when criticizing their basketball programs.

However, this season was certainly another huge step forward.

Proof is not even in the actual W-L records but more importantly in the sheer amount of good OOC wins the league secured -- something missing the past few years.


The NCAA tourney was a bit of a letdown since no team outside of Villanova has seemed an insurmountable task to upset. SEC teams mainly played to their seeding, so no real negative. However, seems the chance was there for any of the SEC teams to get to the Elite 8.

I mean that in the sense that there's really not much difference between Florida St, Kansas St and any of the other 7-10 seeds --mainly just getting hot or matchups.


However, the tourney is a crapshoot in many ways and the important thing is just to keep getting into it and good things (favorable draw/upsets in your bracket etc) will eventually happen.

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I wonder if Bruce Pearl wishes they would have played not such a soft OOC schedule.

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Bruce Pearl probably wishes they didn't lose their best defender in the last couple of weeks of the season.

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They still couldn’t shoot to save their lives the last few games. That one player doesn’t affect that

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It absolutely did. Nothing about that team was the same once he went down.

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They still couldn’t shoot to save their lives the last few games. That one player doesn’t affect that

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Neither does playing a different schedule in December. Harper started to struggle and then Heron and Brown started playing one on one hero ball. They lost the offensive identity that made them so good for most of the season. I'm not sure if the added pressure of playing with fewer players or a different rotation was the primary cause, or if it was just one of those late season slides unrelated to the mclemore injury.

Kinda like Bama's football schedule.

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I mean Bama did play the 3rd toughest schedule in the country with the 4th youngest team. Im real excited about this coming up year.

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Overall, the SEC has a lot of young talent.

2017-2018 SEC Teams Ranked by Average Player Age:

1. Tennessee - 19.8
2t. Kentucky - 20.1
2t. Miss St. - 20.1
4. Auburn - 20.2
5t. LSU - 20.6
5t. Vandy - 20.6
7. Missouri - 20.7
8. Alabama - 20.8
9. Georgia - 21.0
10t. Arkansas - 21.1
10t. Texas A&M - 21.1
12t. Florida - 21.2
12t. South Carolina - 21.2
14. Ole Miss - 21.4

NCAA College Basketball Roster Analysis

SEC Strength of Schedule Analysis:

11. Texas A&M
14. Florida
15. Tennessee
16. Kentucky
21. Alabama
26. Arkansas
34. Georgia
35. Vanderbilt
39. Missouri
45. Auburn
47. LSU
51. South Carolina
53. Ole Miss
61. Miss St.

NCAA Strength of Schedule Rankings