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Jay Bilas is a guy who I usually respect a good deal as a basketball analyst. I am not an ESPN insider, but he is ranking the Big 10 as the top conference in the country for basketball.

Jay Bilas: Ranking college basketball's top conferences - ESPN


If I worked as a sportswriter I would request an opt out for preseason predictions, but I will watch with interest lots and lots of basketball in November and December and will be ready to argue for fun on here about SEC basketball and other conferences after that.

If Bilas is close to being right, the SEC will not be running with the Big 10 this year. If the SEC West ends up having 2 NCAA tournament worthy schools (instead of zero which looks possible now) and the East looks as great as I think TN, Kentucky and Florida might with even UGA looking pretty good people on here may see the SEC as back as a top 3-4 basketball conference.

Last year the argument was whether the SEC was 4th or 5th best on here. This year I think the SEC could end up 3rd or 4th. We will see.

We definitely are bringing in more talent than almost anyone as a conference. If we do that consistently and have good player development the SEC should firmly move into the top 3 as a basketball conference which would be great for those of us who love college basketball and the conference the Vols play in.
 
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MikeHamiltonFan said:
Jay Bilas is a guy who I usually respect a good deal as a basketball analyst. I am not an ESPN insider, but he is ranking the Big 10 as the top conference in the country for basketball.

Jay Bilas: Ranking college basketball's top conferences - ESPN


If I worked as a sportswriter I would request an opt out for preseason predictions, but I will watch with interest lots and lots of basketball in November and December and will be ready to argue for fun on here about SEC basketball and other conferences after that.

If Bilas is close to being right, the SEC will not be running with the Big 10 this year. If the SEC West ends up having 2 NCAA tournament worthy schools (instead of zero which looks possible now) and the East looks as great as I think TN, Kentucky and Florida might with even UGA looking pretty good people on here may see the SEC as back as a top 3-4 basketball conference.

Last year the argument was whether the SEC was 4th or 5th best on here. This year I think the SEC could end up 3rd or 4th. We will see.

We definitely are bringing in more talent than almost anyone as a conference. If we do that consistently and have good player development the SEC should firmly move into the top 3 as a basketball conference which would be great for those of us who love college basketball and the conference the Vols play in.
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When he picked Cornell against UK last year in the tourney it kinda raised a red flag. I like the guy and he is normally pretty spot on. We will find out soon enough.
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MikeHamiltonFan said:
Jay Bilas is a guy who I usually respect a good deal as a basketball analyst. I am not an ESPN insider, but he is ranking the Big 10 as the top conference in the country for basketball.

Jay Bilas: Ranking college basketball's top conferences - ESPN


If I worked as a sportswriter I would request an opt out for preseason predictions, but I will watch with interest lots and lots of basketball in November and December and will be ready to argue for fun on here about SEC basketball and other conferences after that.

If Bilas is close to being right, the SEC will not be running with the Big 10 this year. If the SEC West ends up having 2 NCAA tournament worthy schools (instead of zero which looks possible now) and the East looks as great as I think TN, Kentucky and Florida might with even UGA looking pretty good people on here may see the SEC as back as a top 3-4 basketball conference.

Last year the argument was whether the SEC was 4th or 5th best on here. This year I think the SEC could end up 3rd or 4th. We will see.

We definitely are bringing in more talent than almost anyone as a conference. If we do that consistently and have good player development the SEC should firmly move into the top 3 as a basketball conference which would be great for those of us who love college basketball and the conference the Vols play in.
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you're kidding, you really aren't an ESPN insider? Hard to believe.
 
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The problem is the SEC West is worse than the mid-level OVC teams. They don't show much hope for improvement if not a potential for being even worse. The SEC east is as good a division as you will see in the NCAA, but the west is about the worst. I see being 4th-6th as a conference as a whole and set the over/under for teams from the west beating teams from the east at 3 for the season. Don't forget about Vandy, they can play and have one of the best home-court advantages in the nation. UGA will be a fierce team to play on the road but I am still not convinced they will do a whole lot on the road in eastern division play. The east should be a very, very interesting race come conference play.

Go Vols!!!
 
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MikeHamiltonFan said:
Jay Bilas is a guy who I usually respect a good deal as a basketball analyst. I am not an ESPN insider, but he is ranking the Big 10 as the top conference in the country for basketball.
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Humell is out for the season for Purdue with a re-torn ACL. it doesn't drop them from the rankings, but it certainly is a huge loss for Purdue and brings the Big Ten down slightly with his loss.
 
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Yes, I think Illinois will be quite legit, but they have a lot to live up to as well.

If Purdue and Illinois are not in the top 25 which is unlikely but possible, there is no way the Big 10 is the top conference.

The whole "which is the best conference?" debate will be really fun in December after lots of OOC play.

I do not like Madison as a town, but it is fun and funny that somehow they experience so much success over the last decade in basketball and football despite being a cow school in the middle of a snow bank.
 
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Hardwood_fanatic said:
Humell is out for the season for Purdue with a re-torn ACL. it doesn't drop them from the rankings, but it certainly is a huge loss for Purdue and brings the Big Ten down slightly with his loss.
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I can't really explain why, but I think if I were a Purdue fan, I'd be so incredibly pissed off at Humell. Like, "what the f*** is this guy's problem? Re-torn ACL? Seriously? What an ass."
 
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MikeHamiltonFan said:
If I worked as a sportswriter I would request an opt out for preseason predictions...
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That would be insane.

Preseason predictions are pure gold. They are by nature controversial (since you're evaluating teams that haven't actually PLAYED yet), and the fans eat them up (because we're all dying for the season to start and we'll take anything). So you get a bunch of rabid fans, all of whom think their own teams are the Greatest Ever, and they repost and relink and shout and argue and wring their hands and wag their fingers.

All of which, obviously, is exactly what you'd want as a writer.
 
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MikeHamiltonFan said:
Jay Bilas is a guy who I usually respect a good deal as a basketball analyst. I am not an ESPN insider, but he is ranking the Big 10 as the top conference in the country for basketball.

Jay Bilas: Ranking college basketball's top conferences - ESPN


If I worked as a sportswriter I would request an opt out for preseason predictions, but I will watch with interest lots and lots of basketball in November and December and will be ready to argue for fun on here about SEC basketball and other conferences after that.

If Bilas is close to being right, the SEC will not be running with the Big 10 this year. If the SEC West ends up having 2 NCAA tournament worthy schools (instead of zero which looks possible now) and the East looks as great as I think TN, Kentucky and Florida might with even UGA looking pretty good people on here may see the SEC as back as a top 3-4 basketball conference.

Last year the argument was whether the SEC was 4th or 5th best on here. This year I think the SEC could end up 3rd or 4th. We will see.

We definitely are bringing in more talent than almost anyone as a conference. If we do that consistently and have good player development the SEC should firmly move into the top 3 as a basketball conference which would be great for those of us who love college basketball and the conference the Vols play in.
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Why don't you opt out as a consistent poster who wants to do nothing but make senseless preseason predictions?
I will have to agree that if the SEC brings in more talent than anyone and has good player development, we may actually have the coaching to be in the top 3 as a basketball conference---another brilliant deduction.
 
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