{"id":219829,"date":"2025-10-12T19:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T19:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/219829\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T19:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T19:21:07","slug":"defending-champion-florida-headlines-3-sec-teams-in-kenp-top-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/219829\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending champion Florida headlines 3 SEC teams in KenP Top-10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BY ALEJANDRO LOPEZ<\/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<p>Houston<\/p>\n<p>Florida<\/p>\n<p>Purdue<\/p>\n<p>Kentucky<\/p>\n<p>Conneticut<\/p>\n<p>Illinois<\/p>\n<p>Duke<\/p>\n<p>Gonzaga<\/p>\n<p>Tennessee<\/p>\n<p>UCLA<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdamZagoria\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Follow Adam Zagoria on Twitte<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/zagsbloghoops\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">r<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/zagsbloghoops\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Follow ZAGSBLOGHoops on Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ZagsBlog\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">And Like ZAGS on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/alo_hoops\" rel=\"nofollow\">Follow Alejandro Lopez on Twitter<\/a><\/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":2,"featured_media":219830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,398,400,401,99],"class_list":["post-219829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaabasketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}