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SEC Basketball Power Rankings: Several teams keeping NCAA Tournament hopes alive

Roll Tide Wire breaks down the SEC basketball power rankings heading into postseason play. Several teams have made recent splashes while others have fallen off.

With the SEC Tournament upon us, several programs within the conference have positioned themselves to reach the NCAA Tournament while others are completely out of it.

Some of the teams that have solidified tournament bids up to this point are Alabama, Texas A&M, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouri. A few outside teams looking to make some noise are Auburn, Arkansas, Vanderbilt, and Mississippi State.

Meanwhile, other programs like Ole Miss, South Carolina, Florida, LSU, and Georgia have to win the SEC Tournament to receive an automatic bid. Otherwise, their seasons are over.

Today, Roll Tide Wire breaks down the latest SEC basketball power rankings ahead of the SEC Tournament.

Week 11 SEC Basketball Power Rankings: Auburn on top, Alabama falls

The Aggies and the Tigers of LSU are making moves.

The entire SEC was in action during week 10, and only three teams went 2-0. Auburn, LSU, and Texas A&M. That should give you an idea as to how wild the start of conference play has been.

Take Arkansas for instance. The Razorbacks, who got as high as No. 12 in the AP Poll back in week five, have now lost five out of their last six games, giving up 83.8 points per game in those losses. That losing stretch included losses to Vanderbilt, Mississippi State, and Texas A&M. Points being that anyone can beat anyone in the Southeastern Conference.

Here are the week 11 SEC basketball power rankings as we wade deeper into conference action.

SEC Basketball Power Rankings Week 8: Auburn claims No. 1 spot

Auburn is at the top in this week’s SEC Basketball Power Rankings.

We are this close to the start of conference play, and things are shaking up a little bit.

After defeating both Gonzaga and Houston, Alabama lost on the road to 6-4 Memphis (who holds losses to Georgia and Ole Miss already). The Crimson Tide, who held the No. 1 spot in last week’s power rankings, slides this week.

The SEC team on the other side of the Yellowhammer State has been holding steady. Auburn has now won nine straight with their most recent victory being a Quad 1 victory over St. Louis, a game where the Tigers were down 13 in the second half.

Kentucky Basketball has been confusing to watch this season, having lost their two most meaningful games (Duke and Notre Dame) of the season before absolutely crushing North Carolina last Saturday. The Wildcats’ 29-point victory was the second-largest victory for UK in series history.

Here are this week’s SEC Basketball Power Rankings heading into week eight.

Ranking the SEC’s 14 men’s basketball teams for 2021-22 season

Where does Alabama rank in the first edition of SEC basketball power rankings?

The SEC is poised to have a good showing during the 2021-22 basketball season and should add to last year’s success.

In the current week’s AP Poll, the SEC has five teams ranked in the top-25 with another team receiving votes.

All of the recent big-time hires from SEC programs are proof that ADs are cracking down on basketball mediocrity and are looking to fill up the trophy case.

This is how I would rank the SEC’s men’s basketball teams for the 2021-22 season.

SEC Basketball Power Rankings: Missouri falls, Florida rises

Here are the SEC basketball power rankings following week one!

We are officially underway.

The 2021-22 college basketball season has officially begun. There haven’t been any incredible surprises so far, but rather overall the teams that are expected to compete have looked good early, and the ones that aren’t expected to compete have played like they don’t in fact want to.

Eight teams are still undefeated, with South Carolina, Missouri, Georgia, and Kentucky all taking losses over the course of week one. the fact that Texas A&M is 3-0 might be the only legitimate surprise the conference has had in this early season.

Here are the SEC power rankings after one week of basketball action.

Auburn basketball lands in top half of The Athletic’s early SEC power rankings

Auburn basketball comes in the middle of the pack of The Athletic’s early SEC power rankings for the 2021-22 season.

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After a down year that saw star players have both eligibility issues and injuries, Auburn is expected to be back as a major SEC title and NCAA Tournament contender in 2021-22.

While the squad will look brand new due to departures, both incoming and outgoing transfers and the arrival of the highest-rated signee in program history, the Tigers are bound to be both talented and deep with a lot of skill players coming off the bench.

The Athletic released its early SEC power rankings for next season and has Auburn in the sixth place.

Here’s what the publication has to say:

Bruce Pearl really had it rolling: SEC title in 2018, Final Four in 2019, unprecedented third straight 25-win season in 2020. Then came COVID and all the weird stuff last season brought with it, and the Tigers fell off a cliff. Five-star freshman Sharife Cooper only played a dozen (albeit dazzling) games and rookie sharpshooter Justin Powell only got in 10 before a concussion shut him down for good. Auburn was never really whole or clicked, and went 13-14 and finished 10th in the league. But there’s a very good chance that was an anomaly. Even losing Cooper and JT Thor to the NBA Draft, Powell to Tennessee and part-time starter Jamal Johnson to UAB, the Tigers look well-equipped to challenge the best teams in the SEC again.

Three starters returned: Flanigan (14.3 ppg, 5.5 rpg), Cambridge (8.9 ppg, 3.6 rpg) and Williams (10.9 ppg, 4.7 rpg). Two five-star big men were added: McDonald’s All-American Jabari Smith, who is top-five in the Class of 2021 and the highest-rated recruit to pick Auburn in the history of 247Sports, and 7-foot-1 North Carolina transfer Walker Kessler. Three backcourt transfers round it out: Green, an All-OVC point guard who averaged 15.8 points and 5.0 assists at Eastern Kentucky; Jasper, an All-CAA shooting guard who averaged 15.6 points and made 37 percent of his career 3-pointers at College of Charleston; and K.D. Johnson, a former top-100 recruit who averaged 13.5 points and made 39 percent of his 3s as a freshman at Georgia. That’s more than enough for a Pearl-coached team with a normal offseason and typical schedule to get back on track.

Here’s how the rest of the SEC rankings go down:

1. Kentucky

2. Tennessee

3. Arkansas

4. Mississippi State

5. Alabama

6. Auburn

7. LSU

8. Ole Miss

9. Florida

10. Texas A&M

11. Missouri

12. South Carolina

13. Georgia

14. Vanderbilt