How many teams can make it to the tournament from one conference? Well historically the most a conference has ever sent was 11 in 2011 from the Big East. Where they sent a 1 seed, a 2 seed, two 3 seeds, a 4 seed, a 5 seed, three 6 seeds, a 9 seed, and an 11 seed.

This wasn't an all that impressive run, we did not see a bid stealer from this conference, and in-fact villanova, who was a 9 seed in march, was a 10 seed in the Big East conference tournament who lost in the first round to 15 seed rutgers and the committee still gave them the nod. They also had 2 teams that made it who lost in the second round, not even making it to the quarter finals of the Big East Tournament.

The conference had 9 ranked teams when the Big East Tournament started, with the best team Pitt, being 27-4 (15-3) and the "worst" team to make it being 18-13 (9-9).


Now why did I say all that? Well I was setting the stage for my point, I think the SEC this year could tie this record, or get very close to it (9-10 teams). Last year the conference sent 8 teams, and I think the conference got better.

I think our 7 ranked teams that I would almost say are "locks" to make the tournament are as follows
- Tennessee
- Auburn
- Alabama
- Kentucky
- Florida
- Texas
- Arkansas

I think 2 teams are in great shape for March, but won't be ranked are
- Ole Miss
- Texas a&m

I think the 2 teams that will make it but are going to be pretty close to 50/50 odds are
- UGA
- Miss State

I think that with how strong the SEC is this year, and how many teams will have opportunities to make strong resumes for themselves, that 9 teams is very likely for march, and seeing 10-11 is very plausible and I think this will be a strong year for the SEC. As long as the Dawgs take care of business, win the games they should, and avoid bas losses, we should be playing in March, and we will see a very similar year in the SEC to 2011 Big East (they had the national champion too that year)