The Southeastern Conference’s basketball league will look much different next season and really will be good overall for the state of the league. Change is good and what it does is simply puts the SEC standings in a No. 1 through No. 12 format rather than by six-team divisions.
Due to this change in having all the teams lumped together, the SEC’s postseason tournament may feature a different look. With divisional champions and runners-up no longer a reality, first-round byes will be awarded to the top four teams regardless of geographic location.
Regular-season schedules will remain untouched — for now. SEC teams currently play a 16-game conference schedule but this could change in the future as it was voted by the coaches to create a task force to evaluate possibilities involved with altering schedules to better fit the new, single-division construct. So you could see a conference schedule with anywhere from 18-22 games in the future.
Based on the upcoming change, here is how last season would have looked if the change was in place –
2010-11 SEC Standings (if there had been no divisions)
| School |
SEC Record |
Overall Record |
| Florida |
13-3 |
29-8 |
| Alabama |
12-4 |
25-12 |
| Kentucky |
10-6 |
29-9 |
| Vanderbilt |
9-7 |
23-11 |
| Georgia |
9-7 |
21-12 |
| Miss. State |
9-7 |
17-14 |
| Tennessee |
8-8 |
19-15 |
| Ole Miss |
7-9 |
20-14 |
| Arkansas |
7-9 |
18-13 |
| S. Carolina |
5-11 |
14-16 |
| Auburn |
4-12 |
11-20 |
| LSU |
3-13 |
11-21 |
I like it. Do you?
Oh, USC has work to do. Let’s hope Horn never sees third from last again.
