The NCAA Selection committee gave the SEC seven of the 16 host sites.
Mississippi State got the last spot. They finished one game behind Arkansas in the standings, lost head to head series in Fayetteville, and went 1-1 in Hoover.
I guess they couldn’t keep a 40 win team from hosting. Their RPI was 13 and they had 9 quad 1 wins.
Arkansas RPI was 21 and 18 quad 1 wins. The only teams in the top 18 of the RPI not to host are USC (9) and Ole Miss (16). Kansas at 18 had lowest RPI of any host.
And now Calipari gets a tech and he smiles it off.
These refs sure are something tonight.
Wouldn’t have changed the outcome, but abysmal performance from the stripes tonight.