{"id":84882,"date":"2025-03-05T15:23:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T21:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/greg-sankey-calls-out-danny-kanell-ken-pomeroy-over-claims-sec-is-overrated\/"},"modified":"2025-03-05T15:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T21:23:06","slug":"greg-sankey-calls-out-danny-kanell-ken-pomeroy-over-claims-sec-is-overrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/greg-sankey-calls-out-danny-kanell-ken-pomeroy-over-claims-sec-is-overrated\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Sankey calls out Danny Kanell, Ken Pomeroy over claims SEC is \u2018overrated\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

In his newsletter Tuesday, basketball analyst Ken Pomeroy<\/strong> questioned<\/a><\/strong> whether the SEC is \u201coverrated\u201d this season despite emerging as the top conference in the country. CBS Sports\u2019 Danny Kanell<\/strong> posted a screenshot agreeing<\/a> with the column \u2013 and it led to a response<\/a> from SEC commissioner Greg Sankey<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Sankey brought numbers to social media to respond to the idea the SEC is \u201coverrated\u201d ahead of the conference tournament. He pointed out league teams\u2019 records against their counterparts in the ACC, Big 12 and Big Ten.<\/p>\n

SEC teams are 30-4 against the ACC, 14-2 vs. the Big 12 and 10-9 against the Big Ten. In non-conference play, the conference went 185-25, and Sankey also got in on the joke about the SEC being .500 in conference play this year. But those numbers, he argued, are why the SEC isn\u2019t \u201coverrated.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Just helping explain why the @SEC<\/a> is \u201coverrated:\u201d
\u201430 Ws\/4 Ls vs ACC (wow)
\u201414 Ws\/2 Ls vs Big 12 (oh my)
\u201410 W\/9 Ls vs Big Ten ()
\u2014185 Ws\/23 Ls in non-conf games ()<\/p>\n

I confess @SEC<\/a> teams have a .500 record in games after 1\/4\/25 (). Sure, let\u2019s go with \u201coverrated\u201d ()! https:\/\/t.co\/LcxdSwbLMG<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Greg Sankey (@GregSankey) March 5, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/span>\n<\/div>\n

The SEC is currently in line to have the most NCAA Tournament bids of any conference this year. ESPN\u2019s Joe Lunardi<\/strong> currently has 12 teams from the league in the field in his latest Bracketology<\/a><\/strong>, including projected No. 1 seeds Auburn<\/a><\/strong> and Tennessee<\/a><\/strong>. Oklahoma<\/a><\/strong> is also just on the outside of Lunardi\u2019s projected Field of 68.<\/p>\n

The KenPom rankings<\/a> also show the strength the SEC has this year. The conference has a net efficiency rating of +22.07, which is more than four full points ahead of the Big Ten \u2013 the second-most efficient league.<\/p>\n

In his column, though, Pomeroy noted his point wasn\u2019t about the SEC\u2019s strength this season. After all, the conference\u2019s non-conference record and margin of victory both rank alongside the 1997 ACC, which had six teams in the field.<\/p>\n

Instead, Pomeroy argued, the regular-season strength might not necessarily translate to success in the NCAA Tournament. He cited both the 1997 ACC and 2024 Big 12, which both had historic non-conference winning percentages, as examples. Neither conference had a team make the national championship in those respective NCAA Tournaments.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne takeaway is that it\u2019s not unusual for historically great conferences to fail in the tournament. So maybe it\u2019s time to sell the SEC,\u201d Pomeroy wrote. \u201cBefore Greg Sankey throws a fit, it\u2019s important to note I\u2019m not disputing the SEC\u2019s conference supremacy this season. Just that it\u2019s likely the SEC\u2019s tournament performance will not be entirely consistent with being the best conference of all-time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Only a couple games remain in the regular season before the SEC Tournament gets underway in Nashville next week. From there, it\u2019s off to Selection Sunday, which is when we\u2019ll find out just how many teams from the league are going dancing.<\/p>\n

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