{"id":26,"date":"2016-03-08T05:51:19","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T11:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/67.227.157.91\/~kenpom\/wp_blog\/2016-sec-tournament-preview\/"},"modified":"2016-03-08T05:51:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T11:51:19","slug":"2016-sec-tournament-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/2016-sec-tournament-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 SEC tournament preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Southeastern Conference <br \/>\nMarch 9-13. All games at Nashville.<br \/>\nkPOY: Jamal Murray, Kentucky.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nThe SEC tournament begins on Wednesday with a first-round game at Bridgestone Arena.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s really nothing I can surprise you with here. People expected Kentucky to be the best team in the SEC when the season started, and while it wasn\u2019t always smooth sailing, the Wildcats are favored in the SEC tournament. People expected Texas A&amp;M and Vanderbilt to be Kentucky\u2019s top challengers, and the those two teams have the second- and third-best chances respectively. <\/p>\n<p>LSU was expected to be a challenger as well, but that didn\u2019t quite work out. The Tigers have the sixth-best chance and that\u2019s even propped up slightly by getting a bye to the quarterfinals. When my preseason ratings come out, people are surprised that incoming freshmen don\u2019t have a huge effect on the forecasts. But even if LSU salvages some dignity over the next month, this season will be another data point in the regression that waters down the impact of elite freshmen.<\/p>\n<pre>                     Rd1  Qtrs Semis Final Champ\n 2 Kentucky          100   100  79.1  59.7  37.9\n 1 Texas A&amp;M         100   100  68.0  41.8  22.5\n 5 Vanderbilt        100  84.4  61.1  32.7  16.6\n 3 South Carolina    100   100  57.4  19.1   7.6\n 8 Florida           100  62.3  22.5  10.7   4.3\n 4 LSU               100   100  33.5  10.3   3.1\n 6 Georgia           100  51.3  22.2   6.3   2.1\n 7 Mississippi       100  55.8  12.6   6.0   2.0\n11 Mississippi St.   100  48.7  20.4   5.5   1.8\n10 Alabama           100  44.2   8.3   3.5   1.0\n 9 Arkansas          100  37.7   9.5   3.5   1.0\n12 Tennessee        67.5  12.4   4.6   1.0   0.2\n13 Auburn           32.5   3.2   0.7   0.08  0.009\n\n<\/pre>\n<p><u><strong>SEC tourney records (since 1999)<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n<pre>Kentucky        31-10\nFlorida         26-13\nMississippi St. 18-15\nArkansas        15-16\nSouth Carolina  15-17\nVanderbilt      14-16\nMississippi     13-16\nLSU             13-17\nGeorgia         11-15\nAlabama         12-17\nTennessee       12-17\nMissouri         2- 3\nAuburn           9-17\nTexas A&amp;M        1- 3\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southeastern Conference March 9-13. All games at Nashville. kPOY: Jamal Murray, Kentucky. The SEC tournament begins on Wednesday with a first-round game at Bridgestone Arena. There\u2019s really nothing I can surprise you with here. People expected Kentucky to be the best team in the SEC when the season started, and while it wasn\u2019t always smooth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenpom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}