Auburn: worst in major conf. ever?

Yet to be fitted for my college basketball-watching shoes this season, but after listening to College Basketball RPI guru Jerry Palm today on Finebaum (mp3), I’m fixin’ to pull out the shoehorn. (AU NO) When asked by Finebaum to analyze the SEC West, Palm, who has tracked back to antiquity the NCAA hoops RPI ranking system so critical to the Big Dance, struck as significant - and historic! - chord as I’ve heard this season. Palm to Finebaum: “When you look at the (SEC) West, that’s an unmitigated disaster. There isn’t one good team in the West … Mississippi is remotely competent, but if that division was a league unto itself it would rank below the Ivy League in the College RPI rankings.” Ranked below the Ivy League? Hard to imagine it can get any worse than that. Unless you’re Auburn, that is. Palm: “Auburn might be the worst team ever in a major conference. Or at least in the last generation in a major ...