Picks For Thursday: SEC Tournament
There’s another interesting dynamic at work in the SEC tournament–the conference doesn’t have a representative on the NCAA selection committee this year. What this means is that a ‘bubble’ team from another conference is more likely to make the cut than a similarly credentialed team from the SEC. That’s part of the scam that is the NCAA–you won’t see any out and out screwjobs in most years (at least not involving the major conferences) but NCAA tournament bids mean money and exposure for the conferences and to the committee members go the spoils. There’s three teams that will definitely get a NCAA bid–Kentucky, Vanderbilt and Tennessee each of whom have 23 or more wins. But there’s three more teams with 20 or more wins and they’re not all going to make it. Of these teams, 20 win Florida may have a better shot at an at-large bid than 21 win Mississippi or Mississippi State for a number of reasons–not the least of which is their back to back NCAA championship wins in 2006 and 2007.
SportsUntapped.com
3/11/10
Magnolia Tribune
