5 Reasons Why Kentucky Is The Most Overexposed Team In NCAA Basketball

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The 23-time national champions the University of Kentucky cheerleaders and the Wildcat mascot.

#5 SEC's Focus on Football

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An Alabama Crimson Tide football player celebrating

The Southeastern Conference features several talented football schools which include the likes of Alabama Crimson Tide, Auburn Tigers, Florida Gators, Georgia Bulldogs, LSU Tigers and Tennessee Volunteers. By comparison, the Kentucky Wildcats football team tends to be paired with the Vanderbilt Commodores when it comes to college football attendance records despite UK football's recent success.

Which brings us to the Southeastern Conference men's basketball. Teams such as Auburn, Florida and Mississippi State are having outstanding seasons but almost never get any respect simply because those schools only care about football and not men's basketball.

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