This might have been one of the best weeks of basketball since the start of SEC play. We’ve had plenty of awesome games up to this point, including some wild upsets and some buzzer beaters. But not much that tops the excitement of the double-overtime thriller between Arkansas and Alabama or watching Josh Hubbard put up 35 points in one half. The weekend games weren’t quite up to the same level as the mid-week ones, but they nonetheless entertained.
It’s hard to believe, but the 2025-26 regular season is nearly over. With only two weeks left until the conference tournament starts, here are the latest SEC basketball power rankings:
16. Ole Miss Rebels (11-16, 3-11)
Following nine straight losses, Ole Miss has finally fallen to the bottom spot in these rankings, and looking back, it probably should have been here a little earlier. The Rebels nearly stopped the skid this week, but couldn’t get the job done in a three-point loss to Texas A&M. They then got run off the court in a 19-point loss to Florida. This team has no identity right now. The offense has continued to be bad, and the once reliable defense has completely fallen off a cliff. Luckily for the fans in Oxford, the season will be over in just a couple of short weeks.
15. LSU Tigers (14-13, 2-12)
The last time LSU won consecutive games was late December, before conference play had started. And with close losses to Texas and Alabama pushing the Tigers’ current losing streak to five games, LSU has now had losing streaks of three, four, and five games during SEC play. On the bright side, the Tigers haven’t been so bad that most games are a blowout, though that’s little consolation with how poorly conference play has gone in Baton Rouge. There are still a couple of chances to pick up wins over the last four games of the year, so maybe the season won’t end as a complete failure.
14. South Carolina Gamecocks (12-15, 3-11)
Wins have been few and far between since the start of conference play for the Gamecocks. South Carolina had lost its last seven games coming into this weekend, with most of those defeats being nowhere close. However, the Gamecocks did manage to snag their third SEC win this season on Saturday, taking down Mississippi State 97-89 at home. This season is already well out of hand, so there isn’t a lot for South Carolina to play for over the next two weeks. But the fact that the Gamecocks are still competing and haven’t thrown in the towel quite yet, which has to count for something.
13. Oklahoma Sooners (13-14, 3-11)
Oklahoma’s attempt to salvage its season was short-lived. The Sooners’ two-game winning streak leading into the week was clearly a blip on the radar. Since then, Oklahoma has dropped two straight, the worst being earlier in the week, where the Sooners got run off the court by a less-than-stellar Tennessee offense, losing that game by 23 points. This season has turned into a real disappointment considering the offensive firepower on the roster. Porter Moser tried to do the Alabama thing of having enough scoring to overcome a bad defense, and clearly that was the wrong choice for this season.