College basketball is where those of us with a Midwestern/Eastern bent go to get a break from the SEC. After Alabama & Georgia played for the football title in January, the need was even greater. But there’s no respite from Southeastern Conference athletics this year. According to ESPN analyst Joe Lunardi, SEC basketball would place eight […]
There are four teams on the NCAA Tournament bubble, and with anywhere from 0-4 possibly qualifying, this is the league to watch if you root for another team whose March fate is uncertain. As a basic primer, we’ll run through our Notebook Nine, nine basic points to know for understanding the state of SEC basketball…
In no college conference is the change from the first Monday of January to the first Tuesday more stark. The SEC usually has its football champion playing for a national title on Monday, and last night’s Auburn-Florida State game was no different. Then on Tuesday it’s the beginning of conference play on basketball, one of the later starts on the college hoops calendar. Here’s our look at SEC basketball, what each of the league’s 14 teams have accomplished thus far, and who they’re doing it with.
If you thought it was safe to ignore Alabama sports just because football’s not in season, think again. Alabama basketball has been quietly lurking for much of the year and with SEC leader Florida losing at Missouri last night, the Crimson Tide are now within a game of first place in the loss column. Alabama is one of a few surprise teams that are in position to win championships in the power conferences. But the Tide is the only one that’s also squarely on the bubble of the NCAA Tournament, thanks to a poor non-conference showing. In short, that makes Alabama basketball the most interesting team in the country from now until Selection Sunday. So let’s take a closer took at what the Tide has…
The college sports world made the complete segueway from football to basketball tonight, so perhaps it was appropriate that Alabama was in action and going down to defeat. The SEC began conference play and Missouri knocked off the Tide 84-68. Mizzou is one of three teams with a legitimate shot at the conference crown, as we lay out the landscape for the coming two months in SEC basketball.
Saturday has been all about football since the beginning of September, but we’ve got a week off before bowl season. And what better way to signify the transition of the seasons than to shift gears in the SEC and talk about what’s going on in hoops rather than what’s going on in the gridiron. Kentucky completed the league’s sweep of the BCS & Final Four a year ago, but is now unranked. Florida missed the Final Four by a bucket last March and is in the Top 10. Let’s take a brief look at the top of SEC basketball as teams enter the second half of their non-conference schedules.
The SEC gave the country a good Saturday of college basketball. Tennessee upset UConn and within conference play Kentucky survived Alabama 77-71, and Mississippi State won an overtime thriller over Vanderbilt, with all three games on national television. Today, TheSportsNotebook will take a look at the race for the conference championship and how the contenders […]