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All for Tennessee Women’s Basketball SEC Power Rankings for Feb. 8: Huge Drop for Lady Vols

By Caleb Calhoun

Dec 4, 2016; Knoxville, TN, USA; Tennessee Lady Volunteers head coach Holly Warlick speaks with her team during the second half against the Tennessee Lady Volunteers at Thompson-Boling Arena. Baylor won 88 to 66. Mandatory Credit: Randy Sartin-USA TODAY Sports
Dec 4, 2016; Knoxville, TN, USA; Tennessee Lady Volunteers head coach Holly Warlick speaks with her team during the second half against the Tennessee Lady Volunteers at Thompson-Boling Arena. Baylor won 88 to 66. Mandatory Credit: Randy Sartin-USA TODAY Sports /
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Jan 1, 2017; Knoxville, TN, USA; Kentucky head coach Matthew Mitchell yells at his players during the first half against Tennessee at Thompson-Boling Arena. Mandatory Credit: Brianna Paciorka/Knoxville News Sentinel via USA TODAY NETWORK
Jan 1, 2017; Knoxville, TN, USA; Kentucky head coach Matthew Mitchell yells at his players during the first half against Tennessee at Thompson-Boling Arena. Mandatory Credit: Brianna Paciorka/Knoxville News Sentinel via USA TODAY NETWORK /

Nothing really changes for the Kentucky Wildcats this week. They lost to one of the best teams in the SEC and then beat the worst team in the SEC. And despite everything changing around them, Matthew Mitchell’s team stayed right at No. 5 in our SEC Power Rankings.

Thanks to the No. 3 ranked strength of schedule, the Wildcats are just behind the Lady Vols in the RPI with the No. 18 ranking. The two teams have been nearly interchangeable, but with Tennessee’s bad loss this week, they fall below Kentucky despite having beaten the Wildcats earlier in the year.

This team is clearly still firmly in the NCAA Tournament, though, and they are also ever so slightly still in the race for thee SEC Championship due to that 7-4 conference record that puts them at fourth in the SEC standings.

But if they want to even have a chance to win the conference, they’ll have to upset the South Carolina Gamecocks and Mississippi State Bulldogs the final two games of the season.

Before that, they have three tough but winnable games with the Georgia Bulldogs and Arkansas Razorbacks on the road and then the Florida Gators at home.

They should be able to win all three games, but anything could happen.