As has been the case for the past two years, Kentucky will enter the 2016-17 college basketball season as the overwhelming favorite to win the SEC.
Frankly, it's hard to even find a challenger to the Wildcats—both because Kentucky is great and because there's not another surefire NCAA tournament team in the bunch.
Unable to compete with John Calipari on the recruiting market, many SEC coaches have blazed a trail on the secondary recruiting market: junior college. Kentucky has five of the top 25 freshmen in this year's class, but the SEC is also responsible for nine of the top 25 JUCO transfers, as rated by 247Sports.