The college sports world made the complete segueway from football to basketball tonight, so perhaps it was appropriate that Alabama was in action and going down to defeat. The SEC began conference play and Missouri knocked off the Tide 84-68. Mizzou is one of three teams with a legitimate shot at the conference crown, as we lay out the landscape for the coming two months in SEC basketball.
Saturday has been all about football since the beginning of September, but we’ve got a week off before bowl season. And what better way to signify the transition of the seasons than to shift gears in the SEC and talk about what’s going on in hoops rather than what’s going on in the gridiron. Kentucky completed the league’s sweep of the BCS & Final Four a year ago, but is now unranked. Florida missed the Final Four by a bucket last March and is in the Top 10. Let’s take a brief look at the top of SEC basketball as teams enter the second half of their non-conference schedules.