Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Undefeated seasons in SEC men's basketball history

Updated through 2016

There have been a total of 24 undefeated regular seasons in the history of SEC men's basketball (1932-33 to now).  No surprise, Kentucky owns 15 of them.


1933 Kentucky = 8-0
1934 Kentucky = 11-0
1935 Kentucky = 11-0
1935 LSU = 12-0 (also "national champions" although they only had to win 1 game for it)
1937 Georgia Tech = 10-0
1938 Kentucky = 6-0
1944 Georgia Tech = 2-0
1944 Tulane = 4-0
1946 LSU = 8-0
1946 Kentucky = 6-0
1947 Kentucky = 11-0
1948 Kentucky = 9-0
1949 Kentucky = 13-0
1951 Kentucky = 14-0
1952 Kentucky = 14-0
1953 LSU = 13-0
1954 LSU = 14-0
1954 Kentucky = 14-0
1956 Alabama = 14-0
1996 Kentucky = 16-0
2003 Kentucky = 16-0
2012 Kentucky = 16-0
2014 Florida = 18-0
2015 Kentucky = 18-0


Among those 24 teams, only 9 went on to also win the SEC tournament and complete a truly perfect conference season.  It's important to note that four teams (1953 LSU, 1954 LSU, 1954 Kentucky, 1956 Alabama) didn't get to play in a tournament because league tournaments weren't held from 1953 through 1978.  So to be truly accurate, 9 of 20 possible teams have completed the entire gauntlet.


Here are the seven clean SEC sweeps:


1933 Kentucky = 12-0
1946 Kentucky = 10-0
1947 Kentucky = 15-0
1948 Kentucky = 13-0
1949 Kentucky = 17-0
1952 Kentucky = 18-0
2003 Kentucky = 19-0
2014 Florida = 21-0
2015 Kentucky = 21-0

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