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Gordo: Even excellent basketball coaches can sink in deep SEC

Coaching basketball in Southeastern Conference has become as treacherous as working in the Big Ten or Atlantic Coast Conference.

Every SEC school throws real money at the sport. Every school expects to win and, well, that’s not possible.

Just ask Arkansas coach Eric Musselman. His Razorbacks have lost at Mississippi State, at home to Vanderbilt and at Texas A&M in their first three league games.

Next up for them is Missouri, which upset then-No. 15 Alabama on Saturday. The Crimson Tide rolled into to Boone County as 13 ½-point favorites and did not expect to get blitzed.