Good Wins:  at Tennessee
Bad Losses:  at Utah (91-61), at Alabama, Vanderbilt
Strengths:
1. 1-2 Punch.  SEC Player of the Year Marcus Thornton and First Team All-SEC member Tasmin Mitchell give the Tigers one of the best 1-2 scoring tandems in the country. 
At 6′4″, 250-pounds, Thornton has a big body which he uses to get himself to the [...]

Good Wins: at Baylor
Bad Losses: at College of Charleston
Strengths:
1. Devan Downey. Coach Darrin Horn knew one thing for sure when he took the job at South Carolina: that he had a really good floor general in junior Devan Downey, a 5-9 point guard. Downey is in his second season at [...]

Good Wins:  South Carolina, Marquette (neutral site), at Florida, at South Carolina
Bad Losses:  at Temple, Kentucky, at Auburn, at Ole Miss, at Kentucky
Strengths:
1. Offensive rebounding in transition. The Volunteers are always pushing the ball in transition as they look for early offensive opportunities on the break. They get it off the [...]

It is no secret that when the tournament committee put together the 2009 2K Sports Classic benefiting Coaches vs. Cancer, they envisioned a Duke vs. UCLA final. Still, both Duke and UCLA have one more challenge before ESPN gets what they ultimately hoped for.
That is not always as easy to come by as it [...]

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 [...]