Inside the Locker Room’s SEC Basketball Rankings

Editor's note: Wimp and Barry Sanderson will be using their decades of college basketball coaching experience to provide their own SEC rankings each week along with some insight. This is the second installment.

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The SEC had some teams play very well this weekend during the SEC vs Big 12 matchup, but the Big 12 got the upper hand with a 7-3 record.

Things could have been much different if the SEC could have come out on top in two big games that went down to the wire, but Kansas beat Kentucky in overtime and Oklahoma held on to defeat LSU by two points.

Now, we begin the month of February with teams fighting for a spot in the NCAA Tournament. Here's how we see the conference on February 1.

Barry's rankings

Texas A&M
Kentucky
Florida
South Carolina
LSU
Vandy
Ole Miss
Arkansas
Georgia
Alabama
Tennessee
Mississippi State
Auburn
Missouri

Wimp's Rankings

Texas A&M
Kentucky
Florida
South Carolina
LSU
Vandy
Georgia
Arkansas
Ole Miss
Alabama
Tennessee
Auburn
Mississippi State
Missouri

A few additional thoughts:

Florida really helped their NCAA hopes with a win over #9 West Virginia and Texas A&M helped its NCAA seeding with a 10 point victory over #14 Iowa State 72-62.
Vanderbilt and LSU missed huge opportunities to get a quality win and for now they are on the outside looking in for a bid to the NCAA tournament.
Arkansas seem to be making the most improvement with wins over Texas A&M and Texas Tech this week.
Alabama will have a good chance to pick up 2 wins this week playing 2 bottom teams in Mississippi State and Missouri.