On Sagarin's all-time ranking a few years back he had Kentucky 1, Kansas 3. He had 4 Big 8 schools (OSU, OU, KSU, Missouri) before his next SEC school. The idea that the SEC is a respectable basketball league historically is a complete lie and easily disproven:
http://assets.espn.go.com/photo/2009/1004/cbe1.pdf