SEC Basketball Means More Than it Ever Has

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Sports Illustrated

By Kevin Sweeney Auburn’s win over Kentucky on Saturday showed that the conference is much more than its football teams. View the original article to see embedded media. For more than 24 hours, students camped out around the arena, desperate for a chance to get in and see the action. The general public, for whom tickets aren’t distributed on a first-come, first-serve basis, spent $300 a pop on standing-room-only tickets to get in the gym. It’s a scene that would be familiar in Krzyzewskiville at Duke, where college basketball has always reigned supreme. But at Auburn? In the SEC? Your first th…