Arkansas Razorbacks 22-10 (9-7)
Key Wins: N-Baylor, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Vanderbilt, N-Tennessee
Key Losses: N-Providence, Appalachian State, South Carolina, at Georgia, N-Georgia
Key Stat: Bench Scoring 38-percent
Biggest Strengths: The Razorbacks are deep, they have great size and they are experienced.
Their bench has been a key to their success all season long. The […]
Mississippi State Bulldogs 22-10 (12-4)
Key Wins: Kentucky, Ole Miss, Arkansas, at Florida
Key Losses: N-Southern Illinois, N-Miami (OH), at South Alabama, at Ole Miss
Key Stat: 7.9 Blocks Per Game
Biggest Strengths: Defensively the Bulldogs are one of the best teams in the country. They are holding opponents to 65 points-per-game and 36-percent […]
Record: 18-12 (12-4)
Key Wins: Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Arkansas, Ole Miss
Key Losses: Gardner-Webb, N-UAB, at Houston, San Diego
Key Stat: 12-4 in SEC Play
Biggest Strengths: The Cats are tough. They’ve been through so much this season, there’s nothing that is really going to catch them by surprise. This is a team that […]
Record: 28-3 (14-2)
Key Wins: @Xavier, Vanderbilt, @Memphis, @Mississippi State
Key Losses: N-Texas, @Kentucky, @Vanderbilt
Key Stat: The Volunteers have forced opponents into 90 turnovers while attempting to inbound the basketball this season, another 18 times opponents called timeout because they can’t get the ball in play.
Biggest Strengths: This Tennessee team could easily be the […]
Record: 25-6 (10-6)
Key Wins: Kentucky, Florida, Tennessee, Mississippi State
Key Losses: at Florida, at Mississippi, at Arkansas, at Alabama
Key Stat: 3-Point FG% (.402)
Biggest Strengths: The Commodores play as a team. Sure, they have talented individuals, but they play as a unit. They play the game in a way that would […]
A game that was billed as a battle of two premier senior guards didn’t really turn out that way. Both Alex Harris of UCSB and Jaycee Carroll of Utah State struggled the majority of the night. They still got their points, 20 and 15 respectively, but they shot a combined 13 for 36 from the […]
In Friday’s BracketBuster nightcap on ESPNU, the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos (19-6, 8-4) will visit the Utah State Aggies (18-9, 8-4). This will be the first meeting between the former Big West Conference rivals since the Aggies bolted for the Western Athletic Conference following the 2004-05 season.
The two teams enter Friday’s match-up in different […]
How bad is the SEC? Entering conference play, many believed it to be the worst of the six major conferences. According to the overall RPI, the league hasn’t done much to prove that prediction incorrect. The SEC is fifth in the country in conference RPI, ahead of only the Big Ten.
However, just […]
Vanderbilt and Ole Miss remain two of the six undefeated teams in the nation while Kentucky stumbles in with a sub .500 record. Such is the topsy-turvy world that is college basketball!
Tennessee (12-1)
Best Wins: West Virginia (N), at Xavier, Gonzaga (N)
Entering conference play, the Volunteers have easily the best resume of any SEC […]
In the past the Maui Invitational has brought us teams coming off of Final Four appearances. The championship in Maui often seems like a potential preview of April’s National Championship.
This year Maui has a little bit of a different feel.
I’m not saying that this field isn’t talented. Duke and Marquette definitely have dreams of getting […]
Nick Evans is the Assistant Director of Media & Public Relations with the Louisville Bats. He earned a Masters Degree in Sports Management at the University of Kentucky. He focuses primarily on SEC action at Bracketography.