SEC teams in the NCAA Tournament, including Kentucky, Auburn, Florida, South Carolina, and Mississippi State, faced early eliminations in the first round. This poor showing has led to criticism of SEC commissioner Greg Sankey for his comments on tournament expansion and mid-majors. The SEC's disappointing performance has been attributed to greed and arrogance, with critics highlighting losses to smaller-conference teams like Oakland and Yale. The tournament's unit system incentivizes success for conferences with multiple teams. Despite calls for expansion, some argue that the NCAA Tournament is already perfect and should not be altered for financial gain.
The NCAA Tournament is nearly perfect. We don't need to expand it for greed purposes. https://t.co/BClOxuuhm2 https://t.co/BClOxuuhm2
NCAA tournament expanding would be all about the💵 https://t.co/RuF11WVjvZ
Greg Sankey's arrogance reeks. “We are giving away highly competitive opportunities for automatic qualifiers (from smaller conferences)” The Davis vs. Goliath opportunities make the tournament special. i.e. Oakland and Yale oh yeah they KO’ed SEC teams. https://t.co/HDZgOrjeeJ
Christopher L. Gasper | Possibly expanding the men’s basketball NCAA Tournament is about greed, plain and simple https://t.co/BGwWYxOVFm
During March Madness, the conferences with the most teams in the NCAA Tournament stand to make the most money thanks to a “unit” system that rewards success. | By @dennisromboy https://t.co/3aSAoVxrP3
The SEC's first round losses in the men's tournament: ◽️Mississippi State ◽️South Carolina ◽️Kentucky ◽️Florida ◽️Auburn All to lower seeds. Is conference commissioner Greg Sankey starting to put too much dip on his chip? https://t.co/AOZ6EQOG6m https://t.co/YIOw9UmZso
The SEC's first round losses in the men's tournament: ◽️Mississippi State ◽️South Carolina ◽️Kentucky ◽️Florida ◽️Auburn All to lower seeds. Is conference commissioner Greg Sankey starting to put too much dip on his chip in regards to realignment? https://t.co/AOZ6EQOG6m https://t.co/vMcHQK7YF6
THREAD: The SEC 1000% deserves to get dunked on for the rough start to men's tournament 3 wins out of 8 teams is ROUGH Especially when touted as one of the top conferences & UK/Auburn upsets But man a lot of columnists took the click bait low hanging fruit route on it....
SEC’s March Madness flops show the greed of Greg Sankey’s expansion effort https://t.co/faOhRCc6Cr
SEC’s March Madness flops show the greed of Greg Sankey’s expansion effort ⤵️ https://t.co/rpqOaSTkX6
COLUMN: Greg Sankey questioned the competitiveness of small-conference AQ’s. Then the SEC flopped and lost to AQ’s Oakland and Yale. Because that’s March Madness. Expansion talk is about greed and nothing more. https://t.co/BClOxuuhm2 https://t.co/BClOxuuhm2
The SEC did a lot of chest-thumping this year that it was one of the best basketball leagues in the country. Then the first round of the men's tournament arrived. @ChrisVannini on how March Madness has exposed the greed of commissioner Greg Sankey ⤵️ https://t.co/AOZ6EQPdVU
Five SEC teams got upset in NCAA Tournament 1st round, and folks are laughing at Greg Sankey. https://t.co/zYhZPAzYk2
The basketball gods sent Greg Sankey and the SEC a message this week: Keep your greedy hands off the NCAA Tournament https://t.co/xUoeXsi418 via @USATODAY
This remains the best 4 day period of the sports calendar. The NCAA Tournament is perfect.
SEC struggles show Greg Sankey should keep hands off of NCAA Tournament expansion https://t.co/eZIq60hsrJ
COLUMN: SEC commissioner Greg Sankey angered the basketball gods. Now they’re sending him a message: keep your hands off our NCAA Tournament https://t.co/xUoeXsi418 via @USATODAY
On the same day that Greg Sankey upset the NCAA Tournaments by taking a jab at the mid-majors, Bruce Pearl called his shot for the SEC. A week later, both have egg on their face after the SEC's most embarrassing Round 1 showing ever: https://t.co/6hrPoHGlba
Honestly I’m retroactively thrilled that Greg Sankey did the “maybe the NCAA Tournament should have less mid-majors and more power teams?” thing directly before his conference did a week-long pants-pooping in the tourney. The poor timing might delay changes by years
#SEC teams in the #NCAATournament: #Kentucky: Adios #Auburn: Gone #Florida: See ya #SouthCarolina: Eliminated #HailState: Buh-bye At least #Tennessee won.