Jack DeWalt

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Vegas takes bets on whether there will be a streaker at the Super Bowl and who will win the the Division III playoffs, so... not impressed.
Uh-huh... in the Not InTeresting tournament. Can't spell "No one gives a sh!t" without "NIT".
Or is it more the 6-12 conference record and the home loss to Vandy?
That 35-point beatdown at Bud Walton still stings, huh?
"The NCAA script writers are going the NFL script writers a run for their money." It really helps to read stuff before posting. "Texas hired Barnes after the 2015 season, and only a few days later he was hired by former Tennessee AD Dave Hart." Hired, fired, whatever.
They seem to be moving more and more in that direction. And you are correct -- if comments go away, people will stop coming here. With writers as bad as SDS has, you have to give the readers a chance to vent or they just won't read at all.
According to the committee, Bama was the lowest 4 seed and was "punished" by being sent to the West regional... which has far fewer good teams. This year's committee is maybe the worst ever. They seemed to spend all their time trying to get cute with matchups, such as putting UConn, FAU, and SDSU (all Final Four teams last year) in the same group of eight teams; or pitting TAMU against Nebraska; or trying to get Rick Barnes matched up against Texas.
As usual, the committee already had their brackets filled out by Saturday morning, and except for adding the surprise automatic qualifiers, they didn't budge. What a joke.
Um, no. But they should've been higher than Bama, and there's no way Kentucky deserves a 3 seed. Absurd.
"Go figure that it was 2019 Auburn, who is the only non-double bye team to win the SEC Tournament since the field expanded to 14 in 2013. That sort of debunks the whole 'heavy legs' theory many refer to either when finding the spin zone for a conference tournament loss or when filling out March Madness brackets." Auburn won the 2019 SEC tournament final by blowing out a Tennessee team that had won a grueling game over Kentucky the day before. Yes, Auburn went to the Final Four, but only after coming within a hair of losing to NMSU in the first round. Auburn had firm control of that game, but faded down the stretch and looked very obviously fatigued. So yes, the "heavy legs" theory is entirely valid. The SEC should change the tournament format to give the teams in the conference tournament final a better chance of success in the NCAA tournament.
Yep... duh. :-) Academic now, since Tennessee isn't sharing the title with anyone.
Contrary to what the writer claims, Alabama HAS NOT been eliminated from the SEC title hunt. If the following happens... SCar beats Tennessee tonight Bama beats Arkansas on Saturday Kentucky beats Tennessee on Saturday Miss. State beats SCar on Saturday Kentucky & Auburn get their expected wins over Vandy & UGA ...then Tennessee, SCar, Kentucky, Auburn, and Bama would finish in a 5-way tie for the league title. The scenario above may not be the most likely outcome, but it is far from impossible. Tennessee losing twice is the main thing it is hard to imagine.
The article fails to answer the most important question which is, why is Justin Edwards smelling his finger?
Amen to that. It's always about seeding and matchups.
Cal's record in the tournament has been pretty bad for a decade now, and everyone knows he has deficiencies as a game-day coach. I wouldn't bet on Kentucky going very far.
This was the only statement Oats issued: "We received the discipline for Mo from the SEC and agree with the suspension. After reviewing the film, the penalty is understandable and appropriate." In other words, if the SEC hadn't forced the suspension, Oats would've done nothing... and he doesn't sound very upset that one of his players acted like this. Shameful.
Please note that there is no statement from Oates expressing any contrition or regret for this act. Translation: He doesn't give a cr@p if his players commit cheap shots. But we already knew that.
Well cr@p… that makes it even worse. The rest of us were hoping you had just escaped from an asylum somewhere and weren’t actually affiliated with our alma mater.
"The two players were inexplicably linked a year ago when Reese’s LSU Tigers defeated Clark’s Hawkeyes in the national championship." So the writer tells us the two players are "inexplicably" linked in the exact same paragraph where he explains why they are linked. Apparently, Derek has no idea what "inexplicably" means. SDS, man.
See... they pushed him completely out of the game. :-)
Mizzou is the worst team in the conference, and it's not even close.
Rinse and repeat. Every year for the past few seasons, we hear how the SEC is one of, if not the best, basketball conference. And every year, we underperform in March (just like the B1G). The physical style of play in the SEC doesn't translate to the tournament, where refs from finesse conferences call the games tighter. I don't expect this year to be any different.
Give me a break. This is par for the course in the sports world these days. Auburn was still being coached by Tommy "Pine Box" Tuberville when Nick Saban was declaring he absolutely would not be the next coach at Alabama. And that was almost 20 years ago. Pretending this kind of thing only goes on at one school is absurd.