SEC Men’s Basketball Conference Championship Game: Full Schedule, Bracket and How to Watch

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The SEC men’s basketball conference tournament tipped off Wednesday with the first round of action. While all 16 teams in the conference get an invite to the conference tournament, the top four teams from the regular season received byes to the quarterfinals, and didn’t play their first game of the tournament until Friday.
There’s plenty at stake, from the teams in the basement of the conference looking to make a miraculous run to March Madness.
Below is everything you need to know about the SEC tournament.
SEC men’s basketball final regular-season standings
Seed | Team (AP rank) | Conference record | Overall record |
|---|---|---|---|
1. | (4) Florida | 16–2 | 25–6 |
2. | (15) Alabama | 13–5 | 23–8 |
3. | (17) Arkansas | 13–5 | 23–8 |
4. | (22) Vanderbilt | 11–7 | 24–7 |
5. | (25) Tennessee | 11–7 | 21–10 |
6. | Texas A&M | 11–7 | 21–10 |
7. | Georgia | 10–8 | 22–9 |
8. | Missouri | 10–8 | 20–11 |
9. | Kentucky | 10–8 | 19–12 |
10. | Texas | 9–9 | 18–13 |
11. | Oklahoma | 7–11 | 17–14 |
12. | Auburn | 7–11 | 16–15 |
13. | Mississippi State | 5–13 | 13–18 |
14. | South Carolina | 4–14 | 13–18 |
15. | Ole Miss | 4–14 | 12–19 |
16. | LSU | 3–15 | 15–16 |
SEC men’s basketball conference tournament bracket

SEC men’s basketball conference tournament full schedule
March 11: First round
Game 1: No. 9 Kentucky 87, No. 16 LSU 82
Game 2: No. 12 Auburn 79, No. 13 Mississippi State 61
Game 3: No. 15 Ole Miss 76, No. 10 Texas 66
Game 4: No. 11 Oklahoma 86, No. 14 South Carolina 74
March 12: Second round
Game 5: No. 9 Kentucky 78, No. 8 Missouri 72
Game 6: No. 5 Tennessee 72, No. 12 Auburn 62
Game 7: No. 15 Ole Miss 76, No. 7 Georgia 72
Game 8: No. 11 Oklahoma 83, No. 6 Texas A&M 63
March 13: Quarterfinals
Game 9: No. 1 Florida 71, No. 9 Kentucky 63
Game 10: No. 4 Vanderbilt 75, No. 5 Tennessee 68
Game 11: No. 15 Ole Miss 80, No. 2 Alabama 79
Game 12: No. 3 Arkansas 82, No. 11 Oklahoma 79
March 14: Semifinals
Game 13: No. 4 Vanderbilt 91, No. 1 Florida 74
Game 14: No. 3 Arkansas 93, No. 15 Ole Miss 90 (OT)
March 15: Championship game
Game 15: No. 4 Vanderbilt vs. No. 3 Arkansas, 1 p.m. ET (ESPN)
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Tyler Lauletta is a staff writer for the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. Before joining SI, he covered sports for nearly a decade at Business Insider, and helped design and launch the OffBall newsletter. He is a graduate of Temple University in Philadelphia, and remains an Eagles and Phillies sicko. When not watching or blogging about sports, Tyler can be found scratching his dog behind the ears.