With one week until the official start of college basketball, national outlets continue to roll out their season previews. Last week, ESPN picked Kentucky to finish first in the SEC. Yesterday, CBS Sports’ panel of hoops writers unveiled their SEC predictions and they aren’t quite as rosy.
The group (Gary Parrish, Matt Norlander, Kyle Boone, David Cobb, and Jerry Palm) voted Kentucky to finish third in the league behind Alabama and Arkansas. When you look at the vote breakdown, not a single writer picked the Cats to finish first; in fact, Boone and Cobb have Kentucky in fourth place.