Coming into the season, the buzz around college basketball was about how the SEC finally had several quality teams. And while that is not completely false, the cream of the conference is already starting to rise to the top.
The Tennessee Volunteers and Auburn Tigers were supposed to compete for the conference title. Tennessee is now the No. 1 team in the country, and Auburn has fallen out of the polls.
Vanderbilt was supposed to ride the wave of top freshmen Simi Shittu and Darius Garland, but after Garland’s injury the Commodores have gone into a free fall, perhaps hitting rock bottom against Kentucky on Tuesday.