The Georgia Bulldogs' SEC Basketball Tournament Scenarios Take Shape
by T Kyle King on Mar 6, 2011 12:15 AM EST
in Georgia Bulldogs Basketball
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PrintTaking into account all applicable tiebreakers, here is how the SEC standings would look if the college basketball regular season ended today. (Well, all right, the college basketball regular season does end today in the SEC, but you get my meaning.) Here is the skinny, also known as the straight poop:
| Position | East Team | SEC | All | West Team | SEC | All |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Florida Gators | 13-3 | 24-6 | Alabama Crimson Tide | 12-4 | 20-10 |
| 2 | Kentucky Wildcats | 9-6 | 21-8 | Mississippi St. Bulldogs | 9-7 | 17-13 |
| 3 | Vanderbilt Commodores | 9-7 | 21-9 | Mississippi Rebels | 7-9 | 19-12 |
| 4 | Georgia Bulldogs | 9-7 | 20-10 | Arkansas Razorbacks | 7-9 | 18-12 |
| 5 | Tennessee Volunteers | 8-7 | 18-12 | Auburn Tigers | 4-12 | 11-19 |
| 6 | South Carolina Gamecocks | 5-11 | 14-15 | LSU Tigers | 3-13 | 11-20 |
The West is now set in stone. The only game remaining to be played in the East is the contest between Kentucky and Tennessee at high noon on CBS. If the Wildcats win, they will finish in sole possession of second place in the division at 10-6 and the Volunteers will finish in sole possession of fifth place at 8-8. The third-place tie between Georgia and Vanderbilt at 9-7 will be broken in favor of the Commodores, leaving the Bulldogs as the fourth seed from the East.
If, on the other hand, the Big Orange beat the Big Blue in Knoxville, there will be a four-way snarl of 9-7 teams claiming a share of second place, and the tiebreakers will operate against the Red and Black, stranding the Fox Hounds at the fifth spot in the standings.
Each No. 4 seed will face the No. 5 seed from the opposite division in the first round of the SEC Tournament on March 10. The Eastern Division fourth seed will open against Western Division fifth seed Auburn at 1:00 on Thursday afternoon. The winner of that game will face Alabama at 1:00 on Friday afternoon, with the victor to take on the club that prevailed in the second-round matchup featuring the second seed out of the East. That semifinal game will take place at 1:00 on Saturday.
The Eastern Division fifth seed, on the other hand, will open against Western Division fourth seed Arkansas at 7:30 on Thursday night. The winner of that game will face Florida at 7:30 on Friday night, with the victor to take on the club that prevailed in the second-round matchup featuring Mississippi State. That semifinal game will take place at 3:30 on Saturday.
For Georgia to finish fourth in the East, Kentucky would have to finish second in the division. That means the Bulldogs would face the Plainsmen, the Crimson Tide, and possibly the Wildcats as a fourth seed. As a fifth seed, by contrast, the Red and Black would encounter the Razorbacks, the Gators, and possibly the Bulldogs. Clearly, the former course is preferable, although it is hard to imagine the Athenians losing in the first round or winning in the second round under either scenario.
The bottom line is that hailtogeorgia is right: Bulldog Nation must give voice to its inner Ashley Judd and pull for Kentucky this afternoon.
Go ‘Dawgs! . . . and go ‘Cats!
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Go Cats!
I’m glad the “rooting guide” for today breaks down the way it does. It just feels wrong not to root against the team wearing orange.
And after all,
being forced to see Ashley Judd in the stands isn’t bad either.
Was the schedule I pulled up the other day wrong?
According to that one, the fourth seed from the East plays the fifth seed from the West at 6:30 Thursday evening, and then the winner from that game plays at 6:30 Friday evening. Is this wrong? If so, that sucks, because I’m trying to attend a game.
After looking at the schedule I found the other day,
apparently it was wrong (assuming the schedule on the SEC website is correct. That’s odd. Apparently ncaatournamentbracket.org isn’t the site to consult on these sort of things.
by hailtogeorgia on Mar 6, 2011 12:19 PM EST up reply actions
I'm a little disapointed here.
It’s all playing out just as I kinda thought it would…Vandy loses both their last two and now UT is going to beat UK (yeah, I’m laying that one on the line right now)—except we blew it and lost the one part of this we could control, beating Alabama.
Second in the East and a bye for the first round could have been ours…but instead we’re going to get fifth, a first-round game, and a tougher opponent.
I hope we can take care of business better in the tournament so we can pull a decent seed for the NCAAs.
In Munson world we'd have beaten Alabama but UK would lost to UT in triple overtime after holding double digit leads
more than once late in the game. And yeah, it would be EXACTLY like 2007 in football.
Separated at birth?
…I am the monarch of the sea….
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
They're not related.
Sallah was a good guy.
Congrats to the ’Cats and thanks for the fourth seed!
Go 'Dawgs!
I was thinking more biblically...
in a Cain and Abel kind of way.
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
Gotcha.
I’m definitely comfortable with the idea of that unspeakably hideous orange blazer being the mark of Cain.
Go 'Dawgs!
4th is ours.
I’m sure Lunardi will move UT up to a 4 seed or something.
by D.N. Nation on Mar 6, 2011 2:19 PM EST via mobile reply actions
We get Auburn on Thursday in the Dome
@ 1:00 P.M., barring any tornadoes, microbursts, macrobursts, locusts plagues, earthquakes, tsunamis or unexpected visits from Charlie Sheen.
Then a hopeful rematch with Bama.
"If we score, we may win. If they never score, we'll never lose."
-Erk Russell
I like this just fine.
"One thing I will never do as long as I’m at Georgia is lose to Florida." - Herschel Walker
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