ATLANTA – If you thought SEC commissioner Greg Sankey has been insufferable these past few years while he’s been busy wrecking other conferences, stacking the deck in the new College Football Playoff format and pushing for an unnecessary NCAA men’s basketball tournament expansion while passing the blame to everyone else for all of college sports’ problems, just you wait until Sunday.Because by the time they cut down the nets here at the South Regional, it’s possible the SEC will have pulled off something that’s never happened in the history of this tournament.The conference of “It Just Means More” has a chance to sweep the Final Four, something no other conference has done.
A real chance.With overall No. 1 seed Auburn’s taking care of No.
5 seed Michigan here on Friday night 78-65, the SEC will officially have teams in all four regional finals. That’s a first for this event and just the third time any conference has achieved the feat.And it’s not like any of the four SEC teams are longshots.
Sankey would only need one or two mild upsets to pull off the all-time basketball brag, one-upping the Big East’s landmark moment 40 years ago when three of its members reached the Final Four.“Four teams in the Elite Eight,” Auburn coach Bruce Pearl said. “That’s pretty good.
”We have known since December that the SEC was going to be a force in the postseason. You can’t schedule or fluke your way to a 185-23 collective non-conference record. You can’t t.
