FAYETTEVILLE -- To a point, the SEC craves to improve its men's basketball and is taking an administrative step in that direction.
The conference now has a Special Advisor to the Commissioner for men's basketball.
The hiring of Mike Tranghese was announced by SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey two days after the NCAA included only SEC co-champions Kentucky and Texas A&M plus Vanderbilt in its Tournament field on the March 13 Selection Sunday.
Tranghese is a former commissioner of the formerly basketball powerful Big East.
"We are not meeting our own expectations," Sankey said of present day SEC basketball.