Enough of the bullshite, time to talk basketball. The SEC is in trouble

Kentucky has not looked good either.

This could be an interesting year in the Southeastern Conference

The conference is very meh. Better hope Tenner beats Zaga. Kentucky takes down Kansas and UNC to bolster the conference. Not looking good.

Is that the sport we play while we are waiting on baseball season?

Girls play it too, right?

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margin of victory. It also relies on game results, strength of schedule, game location, net offensive and defensive efficiency, and the quality of wins and losses.

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This is how the rankings are being based. You can forget ever looking at the RPI...it’s dead.

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Too bad auburn is not playing

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True, but it's a good thing Mizzou isn't playing...so far 0-2 with two beatdowns from the Big 12 for Mizzou.

If Auburn loses to either Dayton or NC State, then their seeding tanks for a solid NCAA seed in March.

SEC teams can not have loses vs OOC at home, or it will take a big hit in these rankings.

It's way too early to take these rankings seriously. Does anyone really believe that Georgia Southern is better than Tennessee?

I was just about to start a basketball thread when I saw yours... so I'll post this here:

So far this is how the SEC looks:

1-9 record against the KenPom Top 25
2-17 record against the KenPom Top 50
12-23 record against the KenPom Top 100

At this pace, the SEC may only get 4 teams into the NCAA Tournament. It appears the league is going to take a major step backward after making some very big strides the last couple of years.

Here is how each school looks thus far against the KenPom To 100 (ranked in order of most wins)

3-1 Auburn
2-1 Tennessee
1-0 Vanderbilt
1-1 Arkansas
1-1 Mississippi St
1-1 Alabama
1-2 Ole Miss
1-2 LSU
1-2 Missouri
0-1 Kentucky
0-1 S. Carolina
0-3 Florida
0-3 Georgia
0-4 Texas A&M

Additionally though, there have been two bad losses:

*Vandy lost to #161 Kent State
*South Carolina lost to #179 Stony Brook

It's early, but Auburn and Tennessee are the only teams who are making a strong case for an NCAA Bid.... I assume Kentucky will too once they start playing some stiffer competition. Mississippi State and LSU have the talent, but they are going to need to win more big games or they have the NIT in their future.

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It's way too early to look at this. Like RPI in previous years it is close to meaningless until the new year.

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You are correct in that it won't make a ton of sense until the New Year (evidenced by Ohio State being ranked #1 in the initial NET rankings). But what the OP is trying to say is that by the time the new year rolls around, the cake is already in the oven when it comes to how many teams the SEC may get in.

You can't be 2-17 against the KenPom Top 50 and expect to get 6 or 7 teams into the Big Dance. How many SEC teams get into the NCAA Tournament will essentially be decided by the end of December.

The way things are looking, we will get a minimum of three teams with an absolute MAX of five teams unless our conference steps it up in the next 3-4 weeks.

For reference, last season the SEC got 8 teams into the NCAA Tournament with 2 others making the NIT. That was possible because the SEC had such a strong showing in OOC play.