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Can the SEC really get 14 out of 16?

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13 are pretty solidly in right now. Vandy fading a little. And Arkansas finally won 2 games and that's all it takes in the rugged SEC. As for LSU, my fear that they would go 2-16 is realized. They may not even get 2.
 
13 are pretty solidly in right now. Vandy fading a little. And Arkansas finally won 2 games and that's all it takes in the rugged SEC. As for LSU, my fear that they would go 2-16 is realized. They may not even get 2.
No. I’d say 13 is max.
 
Vandy is not safely in. Nor are Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, or Georgia.

I think Texas gets in thanks to their recent run, and 2-3 of the others.
 
I hope Texas gets left out and the sanctimonious sankey can bitch and complain. This is exactly the reason why they want to expand to 76. Just so every team in the Big 10 and SEC can get in.
 
Yet somehow has made more final fours and won more Nattys than SEC since then as well.
Good point. I was thinking in terms of overall benefit to all the teams getting into the tournament.

But this SEC favoritism is a new thing. Let's see how things go on the next 10 years, if they can produce multiple champions or not.
 
One person’s view. Of course, the prior couple years it was the Big 12. Probably some truth here:
 
I thought the committee would pick one or two of the teams to use as their annual non conference strength of schedule whipping boy, but I was wrong.
 
Not only did the SEC get 14 teams but almost all of them were rewarded in their seeding. Case in point Oklahoma which is a 9 seed with 13 losses while Louisville is an 8 seed after winning 20 ACC games.
 
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I dont like the SEC but it's unfair to limit a conference. The SEC is legitimately the best conference of all time. Even their non-conference performance was historic. They definitely deserved 14.
Call me when they get three of the four participants into the Final Four.
 
Texas had 15 loses. The only tournament they should be in is the one that the NCAA has for teams from power conferences that had 15 loses or more. Wouldn’t that be a big ratings winner
 
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Texas was "in" on 87 of the final brackets on bracketmatrix. Were they part of some ESPN conspiracy?.
I thought they might miss it in favor of Indiana or WVU (I also correctly thought UNC would be in), but it's hard to argue with the other 13 teams. None were really even on the bubble.
 
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