2019-2020 SEC Basketball Preview

In life, there are times when two completely different things can both be true. Take SEC basketball for example. It will never have the history or get the media love of the ACC or Big 12 (for reasons, unknown to me). But there is also no debating that no conference has taken a larger leap onto the national scale than this league either.

As the old saying goes “it just means more.” And that’s certainly the case in SEC hoops.

The facts aren’t debatable.

Three years ago, this league sent three teams to the Elite Eight. In 2018, they sent a league record eight teams to the NCAA Tournament. Last year, it was seven NCAA Tournament teams, with four in the Sweet 16, two in the Elite Eight and one in…