Which team can dictate pace and whether the Vols' hot free throw shooting can travel to Tuscaloosa will go a long way to deciding this one.
The current state of SEC basketball in two sentences: before the Vols took down South Carolina on Saturday they had lost just one other game, a 23 point beat down in Tuscaloosa. It is Alabama's only conference win.
Texas A&M has become your clear leader early, 7-0 in league play and now seventh overall in KenPom. Kentucky, Florida, and LSU are all next at 5-2, with South Carolina at 4-2. And then it's a mess in the middle: Georgia at 4-3, with Arkansas, Auburn, Tennessee, and Vanderbilt all 3-4.