2025 SEC Tournament: Betting Odds and Team Analysis

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00:00dinner. Let's talk big picture first SEC tournament title odds

00:04at this moment. No surprise. Auburn is the favorite at plus

00:07145. But do you go to the top with the Tigers? Or do you look

00:11somewhere else in that board for maybe just a tad more value?

00:15I mean, I lean on Florida here.

00:19I know it's not only from a value perspective, I just think

00:21they're the best team. When you look at both ends of the floor,

00:24and that's not a disrespect to Auburn and where they are. But I

00:28don't know that that Florida isn't primed to win this

00:31tournament given the way they've played. And they seem to be

00:33getting better as the season goes along, right? They're

00:36playing probably the best version of their own basketball

00:38now, more so than ever. And so I like Florida at plus 270. I

00:43don't really give anybody else a shot like Tennessee, I think if

00:47their defense is on point certainly could make it life

00:50difficult for every other team. They would need to play three

00:54straight really stout defensive games. How much better is their

00:58defense? Or how consistent is their defense away from

01:00Knoxville? We haven't really seen a good picture of that so

01:03far this year. They've struggled a little bit on the road. Does

01:05the neutral side game mean on the road? I don't know. But

01:08we'll find out. But I think Tennessee probably is the other

01:10place I'd look just because their defense is that much

01:13better than everybody else's.

01:15It's a good point that you bring up too, because you take a look

01:17at some of the best offenses in the country. According to Ken

01:19Palm, you got one, three, four, five and six along one difference

01:24there, as I assume it's probably Duke at number two overall.

01:27Usually when I look at neutral side court and you play, let's

01:30just say in the SEC, which is an unbelievable conference, do you

01:33really rely more on defense? Because it's true that Tennessee

01:35is the best defensive team in the country. And they still do

01:38have a quality offense on that end. Do you look more

01:40offensively or defensively when you're picking neutral courts

01:43here? Or does it matter to you at that point?

01:46I mean, look, for all intents purposes, you use the same exact

01:49method used for six games in March, right? It's it's guard

01:51playing defense, right? If you have those two things, then you

01:55have a chance to make a run through any tournament, right,

01:57whether it's conference tournament or the NCAA

01:59tournament. And that's what Tennessee really excels at,

02:01right, they got great guard play, and they play great

02:04defense. So I think Tennessee, Tennessee's offense at times,

02:10can look a little bit lackluster. But remember,

02:13Tennessee's pace is so dreadfully slow, that, you know,

02:17it sort of can make their offense look not as good as what

02:22it really is. It's still efficient, but they're just not

02:25pushing the pace and because they're willing to slow things

02:27down, you're not going to get a lot of points scored. That

02:30brings a little bit of variance in when it comes into, you know,

02:33beating better teams. I just think that Tennessee, you know,

02:36again, for them, it's about game script. And if they can

02:38control the other team from the outset, they do it in the first

02:4020 minutes, guess what, they're gonna have a great chance to do

02:43it for a full 40 minutes, because they know what works

02:45against whoever they're playing, and they stick with it.

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