“I was thinking about this as I was changing: what about this tournament we’ve got in Nashville? I don’t know — maybe we won’t show. Why even go and get the — just beat up? It doesn’t matter who you play, everybody is going to be good. And it’s going to be war, war, war. Or war, one war, or two wars. And then you’ve got to go to the NCAA Tournament because all those teams that are playing after that first round are all in. They’re going to be in that tournament.”
Eight SEC teams made the tournament last year.