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Paul Finebaum reviews SEC’s March Madness performance: ‘That’s all people remember’
By Keith Farner
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Paul Finebaum has been in the middle of the conversation of conference performance this basketball season, and now that the ACC has 2 teams in the Final Four, while the SEC didn’t make it for another season.
Finebaum on his regular Monday appearance on “McElroy and Cubelic In the morning” on WJOX out of Birmingham, Alabama, recalled that ESPN commentator Seth Greenberg recently noted that the SEC had passed the ACC as a basketball conference.
“The criticism is coming from the ACC,” Finebaum said. “The reason is that most people, if not everyone, thought that the ACC had been passed … a lot of people are jumping on comments like that and hey, that’s fine. It was not a good year in the ACC, but when you have a big postseason it wipes away whatever you didn’t accomplish.”
Like in college football, if the SEC had a sub-par season overall, but then still produced both teams in the national championship, “That’s all people remember,” Finebaum said. “You can say on one hand the criticism is justified, but it doesn’t take away from what happened during the season. But ultimately, it has been 10 years since the SEC won the national championship in basketball, and been what 3 years with Auburn since it’s been to the Final Four and that’s what people remember.”
Finebaum said he tries to tell fans to not judge the college basketball season until it’s over, and right now, it’s about who’s in contention.
A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
