CBS's Margaret Brennan asked Vice President J.D. Vance how "lower income" states like Mississippi, Alabama, and Kentucky would be able to handle natural disasters without help from FEMA during an interview Sunday on "Face The Nation.

Kentucky visits Tennessee in Knoxville! Let's continue our College Basketball odds series with a Kentucky-Tennessee prediction and pick.

Auburn (1), Alabama (4), Florida (6), Tennessee (8), Kentucky (12), Mississippi State (13), Texas A&M (15), Missouri (21) and Ole Miss (23) are ranked in the top 25 from the SEC. The entire USA TODAY Sports Men’s Basketball Coaches Poll can be viewed here.

Initially, many Kentucky fans weren’t sold on Pope, whose BYU team made an early exit from the NCAA Tournament last March. He didn’t have the sexy resume, wasn’t drenched in blue-blood perfume from the Big Ten or SEC that would warrant taking such a lofty post in Lexington.

The start to the season for the Kentucky Wildcats has been interesting as Mark Pope's team has four wins over the top 15 teams but three losses against unranked

The SEC had 10 teams ranked in the AP Top 25. Tennessee (17-3) fell two spots to No. 8 with the Kentucky Wildcats (14-5) falling three spots to No. 12. Texas A&M (No. 13, 15-5), Missouri (No. 20, 16-4), Ole Miss (No. 23, 15-5) and Vanderbilt (No. 24, 16-4) were all ranked.

Auburn continues to reside in the No. 1 spot in the Associated Press Top 25 poll after surviving a scare Saturday against Tennessee. Kentucky wasn't

Tennessee Basketball came in at No. 8 in Monday’s updated Associated Press Top 25 and Coaches Poll, moving down one spot in the Coaches Poll and two spots in the AP Top 25 after splitting games last week,

No. 25 UConn (14-6) vs. DePaul (10-11), 8 p.m. No. 16 Oregon (16-4) at UCLA (14-6), 10:30 p.m. No. 18 Illinois (14-6) at Nebraska (12-8), 8:30 p.m. No. 19 Memphis (16-4) at Tulane (11-9), 9 p.m.

Texas Tech made its Top 25 season debut at No. 22 after beating Cincinnati and Oklahoma State to run its Big 12 winning streak to four games. Vanderbilt entered the poll at No. 24 for the first time since Dec. 7, 2015, as the women’s team also cracked the poll this week for the first time since 2014.

Holy Cross at Boston U., 7 p.m. Towson at Northeastern, 9 p.m. Bethune-Cookman at Alcorn St., 6 p.m. Southern Miss. at Troy, 6 p.m. Houston Christian at SE Louisiana, 7 p.m.

Most assuredly, these folks coming together to select and bracket this year’s 68-team field will have prepared for this moment. However, maybe it’s not from the conference they expected. When the Pac-12 cratered and moved teams to the Midwest and East Coast leagues,