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All for Tennessee Official Men’s Basketball SEC Power Rankings for Jan. 30: Vols Shoot Up

By Caleb Calhoun

Jan 28, 2017; Knoxville, TN, USA; The Tennessee Volunteers bench reacts after a three pointer against the Kansas State Wildcats during the second half at Thompson-Boling Arena. Tennessee won 70 to 58. Mandatory Credit: Randy Sartin-USA TODAY Sports
Jan 28, 2017; Knoxville, TN, USA; The Tennessee Volunteers bench reacts after a three pointer against the Kansas State Wildcats during the second half at Thompson-Boling Arena. Tennessee won 70 to 58. Mandatory Credit: Randy Sartin-USA TODAY Sports /
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Jan 24, 2017; Knoxville, TN, USA; Tennessee Volunteers forward Grant Williams (2) and guard Jordan Bone (0) celebrate after defeating the Kentucky Wildcats 82-80 at Thompson-Boling Arena. Mandatory Credit: Bryan Lynn-USA TODAY Sports
Jan 24, 2017; Knoxville, TN, USA; Tennessee Volunteers forward Grant Williams (2) and guard Jordan Bone (0) celebrate after defeating the Kentucky Wildcats 82-80 at Thompson-Boling Arena. Mandatory Credit: Bryan Lynn-USA TODAY Sports /

See how far the Tennessee Volunteers moved up in the All for Tennessee official Men’s Basketball SEC Power Rankings for Jan. 30, 2017.

On Rocky Top, the story of SEC basketball is how the Tennessee Vols have immediately jumped onto the relevant stage. And it’s reflected in their standing in this week’s SEC Power Rankings.

But that’s not the only story of the Southeastern Conference of this past week.

The top team in the conference looks especially vulnerable now, and the conference as a whole looks a lot better than people initially thought it would.

That is evidenced by the fact that they went .500 in the SEC/Big 12 challenge this past week. That’s a major level of overachievement, and it has changed everything in the conference in terms of the NCAA Tournament outlook.

Currently, three SEC teams are in the Top 25 of the RPI, five are in the Top 50 overall, and 11 are in the Top 80. All 11 of those teams are vying for an NCAA Tournament bid right now.

However, a few of them took significant drops in the rankings after the way they played this past week, and we had to drop them in our SEC Power Rankings as well.

But while the bottom two remain consistently the worst teams in the conference, and while the Vols earned the right to shoot up, where does everybody else stand?

Did the upsets reorder the Top Three in the conference? Did the other teams outside of Tennessee have any significant changes?

And is the No. 1 team still the same? Let’s find all that out here.

These are the official All for Tennessee Men’s Basketball SEC Power Rankings for the week beginning on Monday, Jan. 30, 2017.

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