"SEC: ¿Su propio peor enemigo? Explorando la élite subestimada - The Athletic"

Particularmente de una liga específica, cuyo canibalismo podría ser lo único que le impida establecer un nuevo récord de participaciones en el torneo de la NCAA. Hablando de esto:

What more can we say about the SEC, which has 14 teams in KenPom’s top 50, and none outside of the top 100? (Every other power conference has at least two cellar dwellers, by the way, led by the ACC’s seven.) Here’s the thing, though: While the SEC earned that lofty reputation by kicking butt and taking names in nonconference, now the call is coming from inside the house. When two good teams play one another — spoiler alert — one of them has to lose.

There’s no better example of that than Arkansas: a fine-but-nothing-special team that might be in for a rude awakening the next two months. The Razorbacks have a Hall of Fame coach in John Calipari, maybe the breakout player of this season in Adou Thiero, a potential first-round pick in freshman point guard Boogie Fland … and they’re 0-2 in the SEC after Wednesday’s 7-point home loss to Ole Miss. It’s the first time in Calipari’s career that he has ever started 0-2 in SEC play — and that includes Kentucky’s disastrous 2020-21 season when the Cats went 9-16 and missed the NCAA Tournament. Despite shooting 75.5 percent at the rim, per CBB Analytics — 13 percent better than the DI average — Arkansas is taking under 30 percent of its shots from in close, which is below the DI average. Plus, outside of a neutral-court win over Michigan, the Hogs’ resume is mighty thin. Things don’t get easier with Florida coming to town Saturday. Starting 0-3 in this SEC isn’t necessarily fatal, but it isn’t good.