You'll be hard-pressed to find a prediction for the forthcoming SEC basketball season that doesn't put the Kentucky Wildcats in first place. Those who dare to downgrade the talented Cats are quickly deluged with feedback berating them for trying to be "shocking" or "controversial."

Of course, that same feedback was plentiful last year, and it was Florida, not UK, that steamrolled the rest of the conference. Evaluated on a piece-by-piece basis, it's unlikely that the Gators would have been picked to dominate as thoroughly as they did.

We've all learned by now that teams will frequently add up to more or less than the sum of their parts, but it's still fun to break the projected starters out by position and weigh them against...

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