As the 2022-23 men's college basketball season draws closer, ESPN.com's panel of experts is predicting the order of finish for the nation's top conferences. We've already looked at the mid-majors, American, Pac-12, Big East, and Big Ten. Now our focus turns to the SEC.
Anyone still believing the SEC is only a football conference hasn't been paying attention to the preseason hype in men's hoops. The same five teams are ranked in the top 20 in both the AP poll and at KenPom: Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Auburn and Alabama.