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College basketball Power Rankings: Conference play heats up, and how good is Kentucky?

With the holidays in the rearview mirror and league play getting ready to kick into high gear, the SEC is developing into arguably the most intriguing major conference in the country.

There might not currently be a clear-cut favorite or national championship contender among the group. But there have been seven different SEC teams in the Power Rankings at one point or another during the first half of the 2021-22 men's college basketball season, and there are four in the top 16 this week.

The SEC flavor of the week has been a constant carousel, too. Kentucky entered the season as the favorite, but lost its opener, and Arkansas took the mantle.