St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Jan 4, 2023
Tipsheet: SEC basketball could be even crazier than usual this season
LSU coach Matt McMahon celebrates with guard Justice Hill after the team's win over Arkansas in an NCAA college basketball game in Baton Rouge, La., Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2022.The Southeastern Conference basketball is going to be a grind. We say that every season but, seriously, this is going to be a grind.
Surprising Missouri cracked the Top 25 this week, joining SEC rivals Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas and Auburn in the rankings. Mississippi State and Kentucky just fell out out of the rankings and surprising LSU just missed getting in.
LSU has a new coach, like Missouri. Matt McMahon rounded up a transfer-laded team in Baton Rouge, as Dennis Gates did in Boone County, and blended them quickly.