College Hoops 6th Best Conference History - SEC

 We posted out of order, but the 6th best conference in college basketball history is the SEC. This is based on the top six teams in the Value Add Basketball Game going 20-8 with a rating of 4.1.

The conference has been dominated by Kentucky, and the 1996 "Untouchable" Kentucky squad with nine future NBA players is the truly dominant team in the rankings. The 2012 Kentucky team is 4-2 against other great teams, but certainly have potential to be one of the top few teams. 

Beyond Kentucky, the 2019 Auburn team is 8-1 in the game and in real life seemed to have the national championship team if not for the injury to their top player Chuma Okeke before the Final Four during their route of Kentucky. Arkansas' 40 minutes of hell, and Florida's team that won the first of two titles in 2006 when the school was also taking the national football title with Tim Tebow.

Many of the greatest players of all time came out of the SEC and have teams in the game, including - Anthony Davis, Shaq, Bernard King, Charles Barkley, Sidney Moncrief, Dan Issel, Dominique Wilkins, Pete Maravich and Antoine Walker. 

Rnk	Great Team	Year	Key Player	W	L	Pts	Allow	Rate
	Top 6 SEC			20	8	72.9	69.8	4.1
1	Kentucky	1996	Antoine Walker	1	1	72.5	71.0	13.3
2	Auburn	2019	Chuma Okeke	8	1	71.0	65.3	4.2
3	Kentucky	2012	Anthony Davis	4	2	72.2	65.7	3.7
4	Arkansas	1994	Corliss Williamson	0	1	78.0	79.0	2.8
5	Missouri	1982	Steve Stipanovich	2	0	69.5	65.5	1.5
6	Florida	2006	Joakim Noah	5	3	74.4	72.0	-0.7
7	LSU	1992	Shaquille O'Neal	0	1	85.0	88.0	-1.2
8	South Carolina	2017	Sindarius Thornwell	1	2	65.3	65.7	-3.4
9	Kentucky	1948	Alex Groza	1	1	71.0	81.5	-3.8
10	Tennessee	1977	Bernard King	1	1	76.0	83.0	-5.7
11	LSU	2006	Glen Davis	1	2	66.3	75.0	-6.4
12	Alabama	1977	Reggie King	0	1	70.0	71.0	-6.6
13	South Carolina	1973	Mike Dunleavy	0	1	66.0	72.0	-8.2
14	Auburn	1984	Charles Barkley	1	1	71.5	77.0	-8.3
15	Kentucky	1970	Dan Issel	0	1	116.0	138.0	-8.6
16	Arkansas	1978	Sidney Moncrief	0	1	58.0	79.0	-9.6
17	Georgia	1982	Dominique Wilkins	1	1	70.0	78.0	-9.7
18	LSU	1970	Pete Maravich	0	1	66.0	67.0	-13.0

We invented the Value Add Basketball Game, and since then have grown it to to 135 teams of all-time great teams and players. We have played 188 games to date, and 63,000 unique visitors have clicked on the game. 

Seven current conferences have at least six all-time great teams in the game. We decided to rank those conferences based on the average rating of their top six teams so far in our games against other teams.

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