Greg Sankey, SEC basketball clowned on social media after Auburn, Florida fall in upset fashion

Greg Sankey is taking some heat, to put it lightly.

The SEC Commissioner was jettisoned into the spotlight when he advocated for a change to the NCAA Tournament to expand to make way for more major conference teams in place of conference champions from smaller conferences.

In other words, Sankey wants more money and for terrible, undeserving SEC squads to make the tournament over teams such as Yale who just embarrassed 4-seed Auburn and Oakland who did similar last night to 3-seed Kentucky.

Let’s call it what it is.

Fans from around the country are politely (well, maybe not) bringing up the SEC’s current record of 1-5 in the NCAA Tournament heading into Friday afternoon with Alabama and Texas A&M’s games still yet to go final. Auburn, Kentucky, South Carolina, Mississippi State and Florida all fell to their first-round opponents, with only Tennessee moving on thus far with a dominant win over 15-seed Saint Peter’s.

Check out some of the best reaction on social media below:

Friendly reminder that SEC commissioner Greg Sankey is a stain on college sports and his precious “competitive basketball league” is proving to be quite fraudulent pic.twitter.com/XDSCDr0mPx

— RedditCFB (@RedditCFB) March 22, 2024

Greg Sankey seeing the SEC teams in the first round pic.twitter.com/Cm5qEOz04L

— dogwood maple (@dogwood_maple) March 22, 2024

… did Greg Sankey jinx the SEC????

— Nicole Auerbach (@NicoleAuerbach) March 22, 2024

Live look in at Jimmy Dykes watching this disastrous first round for the SEC. pic.twitter.com/jNI3vVNqSM

— Ryan Schumpert (@rschump00) March 22, 2024

It’s an absolute shame that Tennessee is having to carry the SEC single-handedly in the tournament

— Jon Reed (@Jon__Reed) March 22, 2024

SEC is 1-5 in NCAA Tourney despite being higher seeded team in all 6 games

SEC teams have lost to:

No. 9 Michigan State
No. 10 Colorado
No. 11 Oregon
No. 13 Yale
No. 14 Oakland

Only win vs. No. 15 St. Peter’s

— Brett McMurphy (@Brett_McMurphy) March 22, 2024

Maybe Greg Sankey can get the NCAA to change the tournament rules so the SEC can replace teams that lose in the first round with more, worse, SEC teams

— Eamonn Brennan (@eamonnbrennan) March 22, 2024

today too SEC good job https://t.co/pKY1UrIjnS

— Jay Cuda (@JayCuda) March 22, 2024

Greg Sankey really just said the NCAA Tournament should get rid of auto bids right before 2 of the SEC’s 3 best teams lost to Oakland & Yale: pic.twitter.com/WCssgVqD5I

— College Sports Only (@CollegeSportsO) March 22, 2024

The SEC is now 1-5 in the tournament (Alabama and A&M still to play) with losses to Oakland and Yale. No wonder Greg Sankey wants to get all these small schools out of the dance.

— Tom Fornelli (@TomFornelli) March 22, 2024

Can Alabama and Texas A&M take care of business?

Texas A&M is currently up 47-37 on Nebraska with just a few minutes remaining in the first half. The Aggies, despite the woes of the Southeastern conference, have looked strong against the Cornhuskers thus far, just as they did in the SEC tournament.

Alabama is currently favored (-8 on DraftKings) against Charleston. The Tide and Cougars will face off at 8:08 p.m. ET tonight.

Ethan Stone

Ethan Stone is a Tennessee graduate and loves all things college football and college basketball. Firm believer in fouling while up 3.