Editor's note: The NCAA tournament Bubble Watch has been updated through the games of Thursday, Feb. 14.
Put away the jokes about the Southeastern Conference being "just" a football conference. These are actually the best of times for SEC hoops.
In fact, the conference is poised to make its biggest splash on the top four seed lines of the NCAA tournament bracket in 17 years. Consider Joe Lunardi's projected bracket.
Lunardi has Tennessee as a No. 1 seed, Kentucky as a No. 2 and LSU on the No.