Greetings, BBN!
SEC basketball is underway. Most of December is uneventful and slow after the Thanksgiving week tournaments and season tipoff events that fill November with action, but there’s no going
back now. SEC play is in full swing, and will stay that way all the way to Selection Sunday.
Hopefully you’re ready, because now it’s an 18-game quest for the league crown. The first two games are in the books for all the teams, and already there’s chaos with Florida and Kentucky falling to Missouri, Alabama becoming undefeated, Vanderbilt’s latest victim, LSU going from 12-1 to 12-3, and much more.
Here are your SEC standings after Wednesday night’s games:
SEC Basketball Standings
Notes:
- Vanderbilt finished nonconference play 13-0 and faced South Carolina in their first league game. Their 12-point win there was just taking care of business, but Wednesday night hosting Alabama and besting them 96-90 turned some heads. They might be for real.
- After their infamous 0-5 start to league play last year in Calipari’s first year, the Arkansas Razorbacks are 2-0 after a home win over Tennessee and a road win at Ole Miss.
- Missouri was not in the NCAA Tournament picture a week ago, nor were they on the bubble, but they’ve just knocked off Florida and Kentucky in back-to-back games. They’re now 12-3 with winnable games against Ole Miss and Auburn next week that could continue a fantastic start.
- On the first day of conference play on Saturday, Mississippi State took out Texas on the road 103-98 in overtime. Their guard Josh Hubbard scored 38 points while Texas’s Dailyn Swain logged 34. Two fantastic efforts that led to a fantastic game decided by just a couple bounces of the basketball.
- Kentucky’s next game is at home against Mississippi State, who actually has both a better SEC record and overall record than the Cats right now. It’s important that UK get a win there and in their road trip to LSU, because after that is a trip to Knoxville.
