re: This Week in SEC Basketball (Jan 5 - Jan 11)

well they also might get 5 in.

I've always put it like this:

You don't win your tourney bid because a good OOC record, but you can get certainly lose your tourney bid due to a bad OOC record. Especially in the SEC where there is certainly a lack of confidence in the quality.

The best case for the SEC is for the teams who won a major OOC game to play well in the conference. Those wins will help validate their quality. Those teams are:

rankings are KenPom
LSU - @ #12West Virginia
Georgia - vs #29 Seton Hall
Kentucky - vs #16 Kansas, vs 52 Providence, vs #22 Texas, vs #9 UNC, @ #7 Louisville
Arkansas - @ #33 SMU, vs #49 Dayton
South Carolina - vs #24 Okie St, vs #20 Iowa St

Possibly:
Ole Miss - vs #42 Cincy (but have bad losses)

So for the SEC's best chances at 5 teams in tournament you have to look at those, with Bama being the only team without a top 50 win that could still be considered because all three losses came to very good teams and they kept the games relatively close.

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Georgia is favored over Arkansas by 3 1/2 points. I didn't realize they an extra 2 days rest. That is a big disadvantage for us, our team won't even make it to bed until probably 3-4am Friday morning then we have to hurry up and prepare for UGA who has already done all prep work for us.

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In High School and AAU most of these kids have played 3 games in 2 days multiple times. This early in the season, there need not be any fatigue or "dead legs" excuses made. The Tigers look to be in excellent condition as a team and are perfectly capable of winning both games this week.

That's a tough turnaround playing at Missouri Thursday night and then a good Georgia team Saturday. It'll be tough but I'd love to see a 2-0 start.

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