[Cactus Jack]

Which would you choose if you had to pick just one scenario?

Scenario 1 : Cats win SEC Tournament championship. Bow out in round of 16 in NCAAT.

Scenario 2: Cats bow out in semis of SECT . Advance to Final Four, losing in the national semis.

I'd prefer scenario #2, at least for a few years and it became a discussion about how they couldn't win the big one.

Kentucky is tied for third in Final Four appearances. The Cats and Duke have 17 each, UCLA has 18 (with 1 vacated) and North Carolina has 21. Getting the lead in that along with all-time wins and being second in national championships would be nice.

Kentucky has 31 SEC tournament titles (and 56 regular season championships). For other conference tournaments, Duke has 22 ACC titles, UNC has 18 ACC titles, Kansas has 20* Big XII titles (out of a possible 24), and UCLA has 4 Pac-12 titles (though there haven't been very many tournaments & they have 32 regular season titles).

Kentucky has quite a lead in those records, so adding to the Final Four total is an even bigger deal, especially if the ACC or even Big XII joins the Pac-12 in folding and the number of conference titles gets a bit murkier (though I'd still say the schools should be compared based on how many times they won the regular season or postseason tournament of the conference that they were in at the time).