Finebaum comes out swinging at SEC basketball critics: ‘They have broken their jaw’
Paul Finebaum came out swinging Monday, a day after half of the NCAA Tournament’s Final Four is populated by SEC teams.
The SEC Network’s analyst’s targets were all the critics of the conference’s basketball programs.
“The SEC has completely silenced the critics,” Finebaum told “McElroy and Cubelic in the Morning” on Monday. “They have not only silenced them, they have broken their jaw and emptied their mouth of teeth.”
The numbers are staggering. The SEC had 14 teams in March Madness, set a record with seven teams in the Sweet 16. Four teams made the Elite Eight.
“It is such a remarkable achievement that 2 SEC schools have made it to the Final Four, but it almost seems like a letdown after what we have seen this basketball season and really during the last couple days of the tournament,” he said of both Auburn and Florida advancing to the final weekend. “Because there was a moment Saturday when I was thinking ‘You know what, they might all get there (to the Final Four)‘.”
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