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How the SEC became the most dominant conference in college basketball

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The SEC is projected to send 13 teams to the NCAA tournament, which would break Big East's record of 11 .

Six SEC teams -- Alabama, Auburn , Florida , Kentucky , Tennessee and Texas A&M -- are in position to get top-three seeds.

Six different schools in the conference have won national championships going back to the BCS in 1998 .

Kentucky has been to the Final Four in seven of the past eight decades (not including this one) John Calipari is in his first season at Arkansas , but it's his 16th in the SEC after 15 years at Kentucky .

There was a lingering stigma that hovered over basketball in the league, that it was more tolerated than embraced by most of the schools not named Kentucky .

The SEC is ranked No. 1 and No. 2 in the men's basketball rankings.

The league's four top-4 seeds a year ago were its most since 2002 .

Auburn has six fifth-year or older players, and the average age of its starting five is 23.2 .

The SEC 's nonconference winning percentage was889 ( 185-23 ) in nonconference play.

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