Just dropping one spot tells me the powers that be think the SEC as a whole is pretty good. Or,,,, that playing on the road in the SEC is a pretty sure loss. Home crowd, home leaning officiating, home team AT HOME and on and on.
We were under-ranked most of December and January and over-ranked now...The thing to remember with rankings is that these are the 19 best teams to date, not the 19 best teams right now....
I just don't get why this thinking is so prevalent. It's almost as if we have a football mentality in that ever loss is the end of the world. EVERYONE loses in hoops. We aren't in a funk as we a doing exactly what every other good team is doing right now.
We are in a funk now. In our last 3 games, we have 2 double digit losses (1 against a NIT team and 1 against a bubble team in which we were run off the court) and an ugly home win against a team that might be playing postseason basketball this season. I don't have the "football mentality" in February over 1 game but there's a 3 game trend that's a bit alarming.