Complete SEC Tournament Preview

Here's the SEC Tournament preview I wrote for the SBN.com mothership. Don't be fooled by the weird name it's posted under; that's still me.

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Looking at this year's SEC, one thing struck me as interesting

Florida is dead-last in the East in intra-division play. And Tennessee and Vanderbilt aren’t exactly dominant either. Look at this:

Kentucky: 8-2
Vanderbilt: 6-4
Tennessee: 5-5
South Carolina: 4-6
Georgia: 4-6
Florida: 3-7

What really separated the top four was their ability to win against the West. If Carolina and Georgia had had the success against the West that the top four did, we’d be looking at FIVE ten-win teams residing in the SEC East. This is bad for Carolina and Georgia, as they begin by matching up against SEC West teams. Tennessee and Florida take it more positively. Should they keep winning, it will be their third game before they even have a chance of seeing a team from the East. So basically, if teams play like they did during the regular season, Carolina and Georgia may not make those faux-surprising runs that many are predicting for them. But UT and Florida should make the semis.

by Incipient_Senescence on Mar 10, 2010 5:54 PM EST reply actions

Also, while UGA was strong at home it couldn’t buy a win on the road – it lost at LSU, for pity’s sake. (Though there were some very close calls, to be fair.) So a neutral court run might not be in the cards for the Dawgs.

SC doesn’t have any real pattern that I can see – they beat Kentucky and Vandy (on the road too), but got spanked by Arky, and lost back-to-back at home to Miss St and Bama.

by peachy rex on Mar 10, 2010 6:05 PM EST up reply actions

So you are the guy that developed that test at the combine.......

j/k

Some say a comet will fall from the sky. Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves.
Followed by faultlines that cannot sit still. Followed by millions of dumbfounded dips**ts.

by btcoop71 on Mar 10, 2010 9:17 PM EST reply actions