The SEC landscape has changed in the offseason, beyond even the addition of Texas and Oklahoma.
FILE - John Calipari answers questions from reporters during a press conference after being introduced as Arkansas's head head basketball coach Wednesday, April 10, 2024, in Fayetteville, Ark.are along for the ride now, too. The SEC has matched its record with eight NCAA Tournament teams each of the past two years and has valid reasons to expect even more with the league now at 16 members. after making the program’s first Final Four.
“We’ll have to create some other type of motivational factors because we won’t have a chip on our shoulder from getting picked fifth or whatever.”It’s a rare instance when Alabama is ranked higher in basketball than football . But guard Mark Sears points to a former Tide football coach’s philosophy on outside distractions as rat poison.“Like Nick Saban said, you can’t let the rat poison affect you,” said Sears, the preseason SEC player of the year.
Former BYU coach and Kentucky player Mark Pope took his place at the school where he was a captain on the 1996 national championship team. Pope had to rebuild the roster from scratch, bringing in nine transfers and three freshmen with no returning scholarship players.“I don’t have a lot of guys that are trying desperately to hold on to a way they did it somewhere else or how they’ve done it before,” Pope said.
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