South Carolina basketball is still looking for its first SEC win of the 2024-25 season. That hasn’t changed since the last stat dive was published. But if there is a bit of good news to be had, Jamarii Thomas is back.

When Kentucky took on the Tennessee Volunteers in Knoxville there was a five-star recruit in attendance to visit Tennessee. That five-star is Nate Ament from Virginia. After Caleb Wilson chose North Carolina over Kentucky,

The day starts at noon on ESPN with perhaps the biggest game of the day, featuring No. 5 Florida visiting Rocky Top to take on a slumping Tennessee squad that desperately needs a win to stay in the top 10. Without any further ado, let’s dive into the rankings for this weekend’s 8 SEC men’s hoops games:

Wilton Jackson II covers the Atlanta Dream and the SEC for The Next. A native of Jackson, Miss., Wilton previously worked for Sports Illustrated along with other media outlets. He also freelances for different media entities as well.

Missouri has only beaten Mississippi State once in the 10 games played in Starkville. The​​ Tigers' lone win in Bulldog territory was a 78-36 beatdown in 2013.

John Calipari's anticipated return to Kentucky is just 1 of the 10 things Neil Blackmon is overreacting to this week in SEC basketball.

Mark Sears was benched over the weekend against LSU, but he bounced back nicely against Mississippi State.

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With three key Kentucky players sidelined, Mark Pope’s team pulled off its most impressive victory of the season. Here’s how the Wildcats did it.

Ignore the hype. Ignore the noise. Ignore the circus that is sure to surround the return of John Vincent Calipari, who in a 15-year run as the UK coach took the Wildcats to four Final Fours and a national championship before his Big Blue express ran out of steam.

Mississippi State basketball suffered another loss to a top-10 team, but one of the positives that emerged was Josh Hubbard, who scored 38 points.

Mark Pope and the banged-up Kentucky Wildcats are making the trip to Knoxville to take on the Tennessee Volunteers. The Wildcats will be without Lamont Butler in this game, and Andrew Carr is ...