Pearl teaching SEC to stay on schedule

Pearl teaching SEC to stay on schedule

Tennessee basketball coach Bruce Pearl has only been in the SEC four years, but he has assumed a leadership role. He leads by scheduling.
There was more than one reason for the recent down year in SEC basketball. But scheduling is a good place to start in assessing why seven conference teams won 21 or more games yet only three made the NCAA tournament.

Those feckless non-conference opponents with which the SEC spent much of December came back to bite conference teams in March.

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5/25/09