All for Tennessee Official Men’s Basketball SEC Power Rankings for Jan. 23: A Clear Top 2

Beating the Missouri Tigers is nothing to be proud of, and it’s the only thing that is keeping Johnny Jones’s team from being at the bottom of the SEC Power Rankings themselves.

But with no Ben Simmons to keep up the scoring this year, the Tigers are just getting blown out by not stopping anybody.

This may be the worst defensive team in the history of SEC basketball, as the Tigers have given up over 90 points in four of their seven SEC games. The dismissal of Craig Victor II is clearly a huge loss for this team and threw things for a loop.

But they still have three other guys averaging double-figures in scoring, and they have been putting up 76 points a game.

So it’s the atrocious defense that has kept this team from doing anything. Often times, lack of defense comes down to coaching, so losing because of that does not help Jones’s case at all.

And this week, things will only get worse. The Tigers have to play an angry Florida Gators team this week, and over the weekend they’ll travel to Texas Tech to take on the 14-5 Red Raiders.

That’s likely two more losses to drop this team to 9-11 and only further heat up Jones’s seat.