re: SEC Basketball Standings since 2017-2018 season

Bless your heart, that took me less than 2 min to type from memory because some of us actually watch CBB and know more than just what our team is doing (and only on winning years). Some of us have been to multiple Final Fours in person that our team didn’t even participate in, because we actually like CBB. We’ll see how long AU can sustain their “fandom” after Pearl leaves and tDecline sets in.

This should make me feel better about LSU basketball, but it makes me feel worse

Maybe you’re an idiot and shouldn’t have offspring. Arkansas was nationally relevant under Muss except for his last year.

I guess winning 25+ games and going to Elite 8s isn’t “nationally relevant” to you.

I’m sure Auburn has a banner hanging in their gym that says “Auburn basketball has finally arrived, Arkansas fans stormed the court after they beat our best team’s arse.”

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Some of us have been to multiple Final Fours in person that our team didn’t even participate in, because we actually like CBB. We’ll see how long AU can sustain their “fandom” after Pearl leaves and tDecline sets in.

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Bama fans act as if they are as knowledgeable and passionate about basketball as Kentucky fans, yet unless Auburn is coming to Coleman, they can’t ever fill up their trash arena.

I’ve been to 15 SEC basketball Tournaments and zero of those were when Bruce Pearl was head coach of Auburn. What’s your point?

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I’m sure Auburn has a banner hanging in their gym that says “Auburn basketball has finally arrived, Arkansas fans stormed the court after they beat our best team’s arse.”

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No program is more butt hurt over Auburn’s basketball success as the Arkansas Razorbacks. A 31-year drought with no SEC basketball titles will I guess do that to you.

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Bama fans act as if they are as knowledgeable and passionate about basketball as Kentucky fans

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Some of us are as knowledgeable, very few as passionate. On the whole, our fan base clearly ranks behind KY and Arkansas on these areas.

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What’s your point?

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Let me see if I can lay it out for you and then give you a chance to redeem yourself. My point was that a knowledgeable CBB fan would never have made the mistake of labeling programs B&C from the below list as the 2 best basketball programs in the SEC since the 2017-2018 season:

Program A:
86 conference wins
2 SECC
2 SECT
3 S16s
1 E8
1 F4

Programs B-D w/respect to program A:

Program B
+ 3 regular season conference wins
- 2 S16s
+ an opening round loss to #13 Yale

Program C
+ 5 regular season conference wins
- 1 SECT
- 1 F4

Program D
+ 5 regular season conference wins (and highest winning % of the 4)
- 1 SECC
- 1 SECT
- 1 S16
- 1 F4
+ Some serious opening round embarrassments

There isn’t a knowledgeable CBB fan in the country that would choose B or C over A, let alone both. The only metric that could even possibly be used would be conference regular season games, which would make program D the winner.

Question to redeem yourself:
Assuming A doesn’t win a conf title or make it past the 2nd round, what does B have to do this year to take over as the best SEC program since the 2017-2018 season? (Hint: it’s less than making another F4 and more than making a S16 with no conf titles)

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Important to note that two teams went 0-18 in the conference in a season during this stretch.

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Missouri 2023-24

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It’s wild that gates can have a 0-18 season and still have a better record than McMahon.