FAYETTEVILLE - Trying to figure out which team will end up where in the Southeastern Conference basketball standings is folly.
There are tiers, but even those are crumbly at the edges. Kentucky, largely the consensus favorite since John Calipari has been coach, is in that cat bird’s seat but vulnerable. Texas A&M, a team that whipped Arkansas in the SEC opener, appears to be next in line to the throne. South Carolina, picked in the bottom third nearly every season for the last five, is unbeaten 14 games in. A mark down are Ole Miss, Vanderbilt, LSU, Georgia and Florida.