Bracketology heading into SEC play

[Coach34]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JBRBracketology?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#JBRBracketology</a> - Seed List Friday 1/3.<br><br>-Happy New Year, 1st seed list of 2025!<br>-Big jumps from last week for teams like Illinois, UCLA, Memphis, Michigan, West Virginia, Utah State<br>-This is the last week where predictive metrics (BPI, KenPom, Torvik) still heavily weighed;? <a href="https://t.co/ugJyIxDBj0">pic.twitter.com/ugJyIxDBj0</a></p>&mdash; JBR Bracketology (@JBRBracketology) <a href="https://twitter.com/JBRBracketology/status/1875222308500976089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 3, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>


2 seed

[parabrave]

Wow I was hoping for a 4 seed. Hub gonna need to get hot early for us to get there. 5 of the top 8 teams from the SEC.

[StarkVegasSteve]

Wow I was hoping for a 4 seed. Hub gonna need to get hot early for us to get there. 5 of the top 8 teams from the SEC.

We're a 2 seed there. We're a 3 or a 4 everywhere else. We need to win 10-12 conference games to stay on that 2-3 line. Probably 8-10 will get you that 4-6 line. I mean 10-12 SEC wins probably means AT MINIMUM you won 8 additional Q1 games.

[Tater]

We're a 2 seed there. We're a 3 or a 4 everywhere else. We need to win 10-12 conference games to stay on that 2-3 line. Probably 8-10 will get you that 4-6 line. I mean 10-12 SEC wins probably means AT MINIMUM you won 8 additional Q1 games.

Not disagreeing with the prognostication and what we need to do to get a top seed line, but bracket matrix has two others with us as a 2-seed and overall we're a 3. High expectations. Time for some dental work.

https://haslametrics.com/ratings.php

https://twitter.com/CBBonFOX/status/1874123990509511113

http://www.bracketmatrix.com/

[Coach34]

We got to find a way to win in Nashville for a 2-0 start before Kentucky comes to the Hump for Game 3.

When we get road chances like Candy, SC, and Georgia- we need to take advantage

[StarkVegasSteve]

We got to find a way to win in Nashville for a 2-0 start before Kentucky comes to the Hump for Game 3.

When we get road chances like Candy, SC, and Georgia- we need to take advantage

Yep. There's just not many gimme games in the SEC this year so you have to take advantage of them when you get them. And even those teams are not gimme games. They are just games we will definitely have the talent advantage.

[BigDawg81]

Winning on the road in basketball is harder than any other sports. If State can get 3 road wins, that would be great.
State can win in Nashville,Columbia, Oxford, Athens and they can win in Fayetteville too. Win 3 of those and take care of business at home and now we are cooking.

[Coach34]

We need 10 SEC wins. We are golden at that point and a top 4 seed. We can live with 8-9 SEC wins- still a Top 6 likely.

[Tater]

Fun facts about the sec in that ranker.

2 of top 2
5 of top 8
6 of top 10
8 of top 19
10 of top 30
13 of top 40
15 of top 49

SCar is the only SEC missing, but we can't sleep on them tomorrow. They can pop up and beat anyone in the league, just some early growing pain losses. They could easily be a tourney team. We don't need to be a reason for that.