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Was the March Madness League overated or were the matchup's bad for the SEC division · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Kelly Ford on your radio. Make sure to find him at k ford Ratings
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  on x also kford Ratings dot com Tuesday edition of the program. So let
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  me ask you this, there's no way you know, a lot of times
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  we see this in bowl games. Now, bowl games a little different than
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  the NCAA tournament. The SEC or the ACC or the Big twelve or the
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  formerly now the Pac twelve would go say two and five in bowl season and
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  say, oh see, the conference is overrated and you kind of just shake
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  care Well, what's ball season? SEC outside of Tennessee and Alabama has did
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  not perform well at all. Are we at a point to say that the
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  league was overrated or the matchups were bad or how do you kind of quantify
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  the poor performance of the Southeastern Conference in the first two rounds. Yeah,
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  it's a fair question. Jake and I even had some fun with it based
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  on Thankee's comments about you know, I think we need more spots for high
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  power teams and we were losing valuable spots to be smaller conference AQ. So
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  I definitely took a little jab at what the SEC's record was at one point
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  just in response to that. But you know, if you take that aside
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  and an all seriousness evaluated objectively. It's such a small sample size and March
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  madness is just that. In most years, this year we didn't quite get
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  it. It's madness, and it's all about the matchup. What makes this
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  tournament great is it's not a best four out of seven, it's not a
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  best two out of three. It is one game, and whoever's better on
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  that day, whoever gets the bounces on that day, is going to have
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  the opportunity to advance. So no, I don't think that the SEC was
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  overrated. I think the SEC is one of the best men's basketball conferences in
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  the entire country. You've got blue blood brands in there, you've got really
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  high profile coaches, You've got really really good players. I don't think that
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  as He's overrated. I think maybe they had some bad matchups. I think
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  maybe they had some bad performances on the day of the game, and that's
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  what makes this tournament special. But I certainly wouldn't say that the SEC is
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  overrated as a conference, or even Jake that those teams were not deserving of
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  the seeds that they got. I'm not even gonna say they were overseeded.
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  Or over ranked going in. I think they were where they needed to be.
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  Bad matchup, bad performance on the day of the SEC is still one
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  of the premier men's basketball conferences in the entire country.