{"id":298070,"date":"2025-10-12T19:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T19:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/298070\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T19:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T19:49:09","slug":"defending-champion-florida-headlines-3-sec-teams-in-kenp-top-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/298070\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending champion Florida headlines 3 SEC teams in KenP Top-10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY ALEJANDRO LOPE<\/strong>Z<\/p>\n<p>The SEC was the dominant conference in college basketball last season and could continue that dominance heading into the 2025-26 season. <\/p>\n<p>Three SEC teams were featured in the top 10 of KenPom\u2019s preseason rankings, headlined by the defending National Champion, Florida. <\/p>\n<p>The other SEC teams included in KenPom\u2019s top 10 rankings are Kentucky and Tennessee. <\/p>\n<p>The full top-10 rankings are as follows: <\/p>\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Houston<\/li>\n<li>Florida<\/li>\n<li>Purdue<\/li>\n<li>Kentucky<\/li>\n<li>Conneticut<\/li>\n<li>Illinois<\/li>\n<li>Duke<\/li>\n<li>Gonzaga<\/li>\n<li>Tennessee<\/li>\n<li>UCLA<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamZagoria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Follow Adam Zagoria on Twitte<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/zagsbloghoops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>r<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/zagsbloghoops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Follow ZAGSBLOGHoops on Instagram<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZagsBlog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>And Like ZAGS on Facebook<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/alo_hoops\">Follow Alejandro Lopez on Twitter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BY ALEJANDRO LOPEZ The SEC was the dominant conference in college basketball last season and could continue that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":298071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,1317,1337,1338,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-298070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115362933242246306","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}