When sports fans think of the Southeast Conference, a 92-year-old tradition of football usually comes to mind.
During the 2024-25 sports cycle, people who look at home and the broadcasters saw the dry become such a significant threat to hardwood as on lawn.
Blue-Blood Kentucky leads the conference historically. However, some programs which are members of the SEC dominated the college hoops in other leagues before joining the conference that this season is deemed the strongest in the country before March’s madness.
With the dry tournament and the madness of March on us, we decided to discover it. To determine where the SEC teams are held, Tuscaloosa’s news has created a system of points that recognizes the achievements for each member school.
The classification criteria include the success of the SEC in addition to the league titles in other conferences to assess the first -year members Oklahoma and Texas fairly, as well as schools like Arkansa and the Missouri which have not been around the dry since Alabama,, AuburnKentucky, Tennessee and other members of the traditional conference.
The rankings we Calculated Based On A Points System Using The Following Criteria: NCAA Championships (10 points), Final Four Appearances (5), Regular-Season SEC Championships (2), Other Conference Regular-Season Championships (2), Sec Tournament Championships (2), Other Conference Tournament Championships (2) NCAA Tournament APPAURANCES (2), NCAA Tournament Wins (2), Nit Championships (5), The Nit wins (1), The players of the Conference of the Year (1), the All-American consensus (1), the NBA and the ABA collect (1) and the top 25 classification at the end of a season (2).
Since school has embarked on its first season in 1903, Kentucky made 17 appearances in the Final Four and won eight NCAA tournament titles, cement in history as a central. With two Nit championships also, the Wildcats are the only program in the country with several NCAA and Nit tournament titles – and there was a time when the NIT was held alongside NCAA as a major event. The Wildcats became the first to reach 1,000 program victories in 1968.
Joining the SEC for the 1991-1992 season, the Arkansas historically ranks second in the league. As a member of the Southwest Conference, the Razorbacks made 13 points at the NCAA tournament and reached the last four times three times. The Arkansas reduced the net after the renowned temple coach Nolan Richardson led the team to the national title in 1994.
If it is not for Oklahoma and Texas who join the League before the 2024-25 season, double national basketball champion FloridaWho saw the Final Four five times, would be third in the history of the dry. THE Sooners“ Stays in several conferences did not stop the coherence of the program on the field, saying seven titles of the championship tournament, 14 regular season championships and five finals of the Missouri Valley conference at Big 12.
More all-American consensus, writes at the next level and the weeks spent in the position of the final surveys in front of the former member of the Big 12 and the SWC Texas, which ranks fourth in the league historically by the point system with the last three and 38 years in the NCAA tournament.
Where do dry basketball programs classify each other historically?
The table below reflects the historic basketball achievements of each current SEC school, followed by the total points of a classification system created by the news of Tuscaloosa. Example: Alabama has an appearance in the final worth five points, while Arkansas has six for 30 points; Auburn has five regular season championships for 10 points, while Alabama has 10 points, etc.
|
School |
NCAA Championships |
Appearances of the last four |
Regular Seasonsec titles |
Dry tournament titles |
Other regular seasonal titles of the conference |
Other victories of the conference tournament |
NCAA tournament wins |
Apparitions of the NCAA tournament |
Nit Championships |
Nit wins |
Conference poty |
All-Americans consensus |
NBA / ABA RECOMMEND |
Survey of the final season survey (coaches / AP) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Alabama |
0 |
1 (5) |
9 (18) |
8 (16) |
1 (2) |
1 (2) |
27 * (54) |
24 * (48) |
0 |
24 (48) |
7 (7) |
3 (3) |
49/5 (54) |
18/18 (72) |
|
Arkansa |
1 (10) |
6 (30) |
2 (4) |
1 (2) |
22 (44) |
6 (12) |
50 (100) |
35 (70) |
0 |
6 (6) |
9 (9) |
9 (9) |
47/2 (49) |
19/18 (74) |
|
Auburn |
0 (0) |
1 (5) |
4 (8) |
3 (6) |
1 (2) |
0 |
19 (38) |
13 (26) |
0 |
4 (4) |
2 (2) |
2 (2) |
35/3 (38) |
9/10 (38) |
|
Florida |
2 (20) |
5 (25) |
7 (14) |
4 (8) |
0 |
0 |
45 * (90) |
22 * (44) |
0 |
14 (14) |
2 (2) |
1 (1) |
37/4 (41) |
16/15 (62) |
|
Georgia |
0 |
1 (5) |
1 (2) |
2 (4) |
3 (6) |
1 (2) |
5 (10) |
10 (20) |
0 |
16 (16) |
3 (3) |
0 |
40/3 (43) |
2/5 (14) |
|
Kentucky |
8 (80) |
17 (85) |
49 (98) |
31 (62) |
2 (4) |
1 (2) |
130 * (260) |
61 * (122) |
2 (10) |
17 (17) |
18 (18) |
51 (51) |
141/14 (155) |
54/55 (218) |
|
Lsu |
0 |
4 (20) |
11 (22) |
1 (2) |
1 (2) |
0 |
27 (54) |
24 (48) |
0 |
5 (5) |
12 (12) |
12 (12) |
59/8 (67) |
11/13 (48) |
|
Mississippi condition |
0 |
1 (5) |
6 (12) |
3 (6) |
4 (8) |
0 |
11 (11) |
13 (26) |
0 |
13 (13) |
3 (3) |
3 (3) |
26/1 (27) |
8/11 (38) |
|
Missouri |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
15 (30) |
8 (16) |
20 * (40) |
28 * (56) |
0 |
2 (2) |
0 |
16 (16) |
51/7 (58) |
16/15 (62) |
|
Oklahola |
0 |
5 (25) |
0 |
0 |
14 (28) |
7 (14) |
43 (86) |
33 (66) |
0 |
11 (11) |
3 (3) |
17 (17) |
54/9 (63) |
21/19 (80) |
|
OLE MISS |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 (4) |
0 |
1 (2) |
5 (10) |
9 (18) |
0 |
15 (15) |
2 (2) |
2 (2) |
16/1 (17) |
2/2 (8) |
|
South Carolina |
0 |
1 (5) |
1 (2) |
0 |
5 (10) |
2 (4) |
8 (16) |
10 (20) |
2 (10) |
22 (22) |
3 (3) |
5 (5) |
40/11 (51) |
1/9 (40) |
|
Tennessee |
0 |
0 |
11 (22) |
5 (10) |
0 |
0 |
28 (56) |
26 (52) |
0 |
13 (13) |
15 (15) |
9 (9) |
56/8 (64) |
16/15 (62) |
|
Texas |
0 |
3 (15) |
0 |
0 |
25 (50) |
4 (8) |
40 (80) |
38 (76) |
2 (10) |
11 (11) |
6 (6) |
10 (10) |
46/3 (49) |
14/15 (58) |
|
Texas A & M |
0 |
0 |
1 (2) |
0 |
12 (24) |
2 (4) |
14 (28) |
16 (32) |
0 |
11 (11) |
0 |
1 (1) |
30/2 (32) |
5/5 (20) |
|
Vander |
0 |
0 |
3 (6) |
2 (4) |
1 (2) |
1 (2) |
10 (20) |
15 (30) |
1 (5) |
24 (24) |
8 (8) |
4 (4) |
42/12 (54) |
11/11 (44) |
Here is how the member schools of the SEC finished in order of total points:
1. Kentucky – 1,182 points
2. Arkansa – 419
3. Overère – 393
4. Texas – 373
5. Florida – 321
6. Alabama – 305
7. Tennessee – 303
8. LSU – 292
9. Missouri – 280
10. Vanderbilt – 203
11. Texas A & M – 199
12. South Carolina – 188
13. Auburn – 169
14. CONDITION OF MISSISSIPPI – 163
15 Georgia – 124
16, Ole Miss – 78
Emilee Smarr covers Alabama and Crimson Tide Athletics basketball for Tuscaloosa news. It can be contacted by e-mail at esmarr@gannett.com.
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