The league is coming off a breakthrough regular season it will hope to build on—and this time, sustain it through March.
As part of its 2022–23 men’s basketball preseason coverage, Sports Illustrated is rolling out previews for each of the top 10 conferences. Last up is the SEC.
Last season looked poised to be a breakout year for the SEC, long regarded as a notch below the truly elite college basketball conferences. Four member schools made up the NCAA tournament’s top-16 seeds and the SEC cracked the top three on KenPom’s conference rankings for the first time in a decade, achievements soured by dreadful performances in March Madness.