Southeastern Conference basketball produced a boffo 2017-18, placing eight teams in the NCAA Tournament, besting the Big 12 beasties in the head-to-head January challenge, and finishing a strong fourth in the computer rankings.
Get this: It could be even better in 2018-19.
That’s true even with the departures of Kentucky’s Kevin Knox and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Alabama’s Collin Sexton, Texas A&M’s Robert Williams and Tyler Davis, and Missouri’s Michael Porter Jr., just to name a few.
Those losses should be offset by a group of prominent returnees who opted to delay their NBA Draft entries in favor of another year of college hoops.