The SEC's top four seeds lived up to the hype in the quarterfinals of the SEC Tournament on Friday at Bridgestone Arena as each advanced to create a semifinal slugfest on Saturday between squads that can all be regarded as national championship contenders.

We are officially done with regular-season college basketball and have reached the postseason. Each conference tournament is underway or auto-bids have already been given out. Even just typing out “auto-bids” is giving me goosebumps.

Creighton has turned into one of the best basketball programs in the Big East since it joined the league ahead of the 2013-14 campaign, but it has never won the Big East Tournament. That can change in less than 24 hours after Creighton outlasted UConn in Friday's second semifinal bout.