The time has passed for SEC Basketball until March to March and reduced the final net from April to the NCAA tournament

Raise your hand if you had Greg Sankey to come from the top rope on the bottom feeder Danny Kanell on the SEC Basketball theme on your Bingo 2025 card.

Neither do I, but here it is.

It started when Kanell noticed an article of the Ken Pomeroy basketball analysis. The title read: “Why didn’t anyone say that the SEC is overvalued?” Followed by subhead, “sec is probably overvalued.”

Kanell, the former Florida State Quarterback whose anti-Sec rhetoric. He talked a screenshot of the title and added this comment: “The smartest man in basketball says in a loud voice what I have thought in the last 3 months … Thank you @kenpomeroy.”

Kanell and thinking rarely collide, but the dry commissioner decided to climb Turnbuckle and Body-Slam, anyway, in fact. The best body blow was the 30-4 century record this season against Kanell’s ACC beloved ACC.

No matter how funny the exchange of social media was, especially given the obvious mismatch between the most powerful man in college sports and the largest football heel from college, highlighted the importance of the next month for the best college basketball conference, with any measure.

In short, it was the past time to score until March too large to ignore and stage an April attack in the final Four in San Antonio.

It has been 13 years since a dry school has won the national championship in the male basketball, with the phenomenon of Anthony Davis, leading Kentucky to the 2012 title. Of the 11 NCAA tournaments – Covid canceled the 2020 event – The Big East won five (Louisville 2013, Villanova 2016 and ’18); ACC Three (Duke 2015, North Carolina 2017, Virginia 2019); The Big 12 Two (Baylor 2021, Kansas 2022); and the one AAC. UCONN 2014 was a member of the American.

There are additional bullet points to illustrate the SEC semi -finished products when it matters the most. The golden era of the postseason dry basketball took place in 1993-2007. In that period of 15 years, five different schools made 12 end four appearances in nine different tournaments. They compiled a record of 13-7 Final Four, and three of them – Kentucky (1996 and ’98), Florida (2006 and ’07) and Arkansas (1994) – were combined to win five national championships.

Contrast that takes place with the 16 tournaments NCAA since then. In the period 2008-24, five different schools made eight Final Four appearances in seven different tournaments. They compiled a 3-7 Final Four record and only that 2012 Kentucky team won everything.

In fact, the conference goes with a series of five Final Four games losing in the future big dance. Now is the time to change the narrative when the greatest public follows the story.

The dry basketball is healthier, richer and deeper than it ever was, as witnessed at the ridiculous non-conference record of 185-23 this season, which Sankey noted to Kanell. But you do not have to know Ball to know that march – covered until the first weekend in April – it matters more for more people than for the SEC championship of Auburn season or whatever happens at next week’s conference tour.

Tigers, in particular, despite their fun of history through the hardest century in memory, will have unfinished business when Madness March begins seriously. Tuesday at Texas A&M is easy to understand and forget. The Flameout of the NCAA tournament in the first round last year against Yale will live in infamy for a long time, unless I can eclipse it with a national championship.

You know, the way Virginia did in 2019 and, if you need three officials who ignore a double-tear at the crisis time in the national semifinals to do so.

The opinions will vary depending on the minimum requirements of the following month for the SEC to validate their regular unmatched season in the minds of the casual observers in March. If the League indeed sends a 12 or 13 team records, anything less than providing a quarter of Sweet 16 and a half of the Final Four will be a disappointment.

SEC advanced four teams in the regional semifinals three times in 1986, 1996 and 2019. He put two teams in the final four four times in 1994, 1996, 2006 and 2014. Both personal are in danger, given the quality depth of this season.

ACC has set the record with six Sweet 16 teams in 2016. This is definitely out of reach. As well as the Final Four record, which has been 40 years old.

The Big East remains the only conference that has filled three places in a single Four Four. Georgetown, St. John’s and shocking Villanova champion possibly set that bar in 1985 in the first 64 team tournament, which ended in the SEC country at RUPP Arena.

As Texas is now part of the print fingerprint, it would be suitable for Johni Broyome’s house, Mark Sears, Walter Clayton and Zakai Ziegler to stage a dry Four at the Alamo House.

Danny Kanells in the world will watch hatred by 7 April. Imagine their mentions if Auburn, Alabama, Florida or Tennessee reduce the last mesh on one of the other’s expenses, while the confetti falls on Sankey and the All-Sec holiday. This would be a bright moment for centuries.