Last weekend, three Southeastern Conference basketball teams played in the Elite Eight. No other league had more than one.
On Wednesday night, six future SEC players competed in the McDonald’s All-American Game in Chicago — more than any other conference — and Missouri commitment Michael Porter Jr. took home the game’s MVP honors.
On Saturday night, South Carolina — the unlikeliest squad to advance to this year’s Final Four — will play Gonzaga with a trip to the national title game on the line.
“We're supposed to be a bad league,” UK Coach John Calipari said sarcastically from the Wildcats’ NCAA Tournament site in Memphis a few days ago.