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Kelley Ford's ratings on potential exist for basketball teams · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  There's no way to know until we see it on selection Sunday. But you
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  know, we talked a little bit with you about the SEC getting you know,
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  possibly aligne you know, eight teams, nine teams, and I do
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  think there is now a defined cut between you know, Mississippi State, who
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  is the ninth team in the league at five and six in the league,
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  sixteen and eight, and then Georgia the next team it's fourteen and ten,
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  four and seven, and then you work you know upwards from there Missisippi State,
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  Old Miss, Texas A and M you go up the chain. Do
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  you still feel that the SEC could potentially get eight or nine teams or is
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  it more like six or seven. I do think the potential exists to get
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  eight or nine jakes. As you mentioned, there is kind of there are
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  a couple of lines of cutting there, right. So you've got your Auburn,
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  Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina, like Kentucky, Florida. I think
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  those teams feel pretty darn good that they're going to be not just in,
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  but some have some good seeds too. It's really as you mentioned, the
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  two teams right there in your backyard, Mississippi State, Old Miss and I
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  throw Texas A and M in there as well. That's gonna be where the
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  cut is is how many of those three get in. I think six is
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  six is your minimum. Nine is your upside, and I wouldn't be surprised
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  to see any number there, seven, eight, nine, depending on how
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  those teams specifically missed the eas State, Texas A and M and Ole miss
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  finished the year. And then what have been able to do in the conference
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  tournament and how many big steals do we see in conference championship week from the
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  other conferences. Let's go back while I got you just for moments, to
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  your k Ford ratings, and I'm looking through here. You know, you
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  obviously see your normal teams that we talk about, Your Arizona's, your Yukon's,
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  Houston has become a mainstay at the top, even I guess you could
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  make a case over the last three four years, even more so the Gonzaga
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  who you have at nineteen. Now, obviously Gonzaga has been extremely successful,
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  but you look at teams like Creighton, no stranger to this, at fifteen.
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  You look at San Diego State twenty seven, who was in the championship
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  game, Dayton at thirty, Xavier, your Villan, Nova's, you know,
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  not your you know your Saint John's all in this in this list,
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  New Mexico, a lot of non traditional power type teams. Obviously Villanova's won
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  one championships have been there and so Exavier. But you kind of follow me
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  here like it looks like there's a we're kind of littered here. Saint Mary's
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  is in here at twenty one of teams that could cause a lot of fits
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  for a lot of people in the bracket. Yeah, Jake, there are
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  and that's exciting and people like that about marsh Mandis. Obviously, it's one
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  of the main draws of it, I think, and we've talked about this
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  maybe it's been a couple of weeks now, but the Mountain West a lot
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  of those teams you just named are Mountain West teams. I mean, the
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  potential exists for you know, five or six teams from the Mountain West Conference
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  to get into the tournament. That's as many as maybe the Big Ten.
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  And we talked about the Big Ten being you know, clearly one of if
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  not the best conferences in men's basketball this year. I'd say the Big twelve
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  is there. But in terms of you know, top teams. The Big
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  Ten is always getting mentioned. The Mountain West is right there with some really
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  good teams. I mean you mentioned New Mexico, San Diego State. Those
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  are probably the two that jump out to me the most. But I think
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  they're deep enough they're going to get five or six teams in the tournament too,
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  and that is good to see. It's fun to see in college basketball,
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  in particular, teams from outside the Power six will call it soon to
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  be Power five when you throw in the Big East in there too, and
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  the going away of the Pax twelve, it's fun to see them involved.
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  And the Americans going to get a couple, the Apen is going to get
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  a couple. It's gonna be a fun march for sure, and it just
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  adds to the drama and intrigue. And I wouldn't be surprised at all if
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  we saw a team like Florida Atlanta make a deep from last year make a
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  deep run this march. Kelly Forward, make sure to find him on exit
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  k Ford Ratings also Kford Ratings dot com. Kelly, I appreciate your time.
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  We'll jump back into it next week, more college basketball and we'll start
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  to peek in a little spring football as well. Love it, Jake,
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  looking forward to it. Hope you guys have a great one. Thanks for
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  having me.