The 2023-24 college basketball regular season is entering the home stretch with March Madness quickly approaching. Conference play is heating up around the country, and the SEC Tournament will be here before we know it.
The 2024 SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament takes place at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee. The conference tournament gets underway with a pair of first-round matchups March 13 and concludes with the championship game March 17.
Each of the league’s 14 teams are set to participate in the SEC Tournament. The top 10 seeds in the conference receive a first-round bye, while the top four seeds get to bypass the first two rounds.
The SEC Tournament champion secures an automatic bid into the 68-team field for the 2024 NCAA Tournament, which includes 32 automatic qualifiers and 36 at-large bids. The full NCAA Tournament field will be finalized on Sunday, March 17, and the bracket will be revealed during the March Madness Selection Show on CBS.
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With that in mind, the current SEC standings can be seen below, along with the full schedule for the 2024 SEC Tournament and the conference tiebreaking procedures.
SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE STANDINGS
Updated through Feb. 21.
1) Alabama Crimson Tide (11-2)
2) Tennessee Volunteers (10-3)
3) Auburn Tigers (9-4)
4) South Carolina Gamecocks (9-4)
5) Florida Gators (8-5)
6) Kentucky Wildcats (8-5)
7) Mississippi State Bulldogs (7-6)
8) LSU Tigers (6-7)
9) Ole Miss Rebels (6-7)
10) Texas A&M Aggies (6-7)
11) Georgia Bulldogs (5-8)
12) Arkansas Razorbacks (4-9)
13) Vanderbilt Commodores (2-11)
14) Missouri Tigers (0-13)
2024 SEC TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE
Note: All times central.
First round: Wednesday, March 13
Game 1: No. 12 seed vs. No. 13 seed | 6 p.m. | SEC Network
Game 2: No. 11 seed vs. No. 14 seed | 25 min. after Game 1 | SEC Network
Second round: Thursday, March 14
Game 3: No. 8 seed vs. No. 9 seed | Noon | SEC Network
Game 4: No. 5 seed vs. Game 1 winner | 25 min. after Game 3 | SEC Network
Game 5: No. 7 seed vs. No. 10 seed | 6 p.m. | SEC Network
Game 6: No. 6 seed vs. Game 2 winner | 25 min. after Game 5 | SEC Network
Quarterfinals: Friday, March 15
Game 7: No. 1 seed vs. Game 3 winner | Noon | ESPN
Game 8: No. 4 seed vs. Game 4 winner | 25 min. after Game 7 | ESPN
Game 9: No. 2 seed vs. Game 5 winner | 6 p.m. | SEC Network
Game 10: No. 3 seed vs. Game 6 winner | 25 min. after Game 9 | SEC Network
Semifinals: Saturday, March 16
Game 11: Game 7 winner vs. Game 8 winner | Noon | ESPN
Game 12: Game 9 winner vs. Game 10 winner | 25 min. after Game 11 | ESPN
Championship: Sunday, March 17
Game 13: Game 11 winner vs. Game 12 winner | Noon | ESPN
SEC TIEBREAKERS
Teams will be seeded No. 1 through No. 14 in the SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament bracket based upon the final regular season Conference standings. Teams that finished No. 1 through No. 4 in the final regular season standings shall receive a “bye” on the first and second days of the SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament.
Two-Team Tie
The following procedure will be used in the following order until the tie is broken:
1) Won-lost results of head-to-head competition between the two teams.
2) Won-lost record of the two teams versus the No. 1 seed (and proceeding through the No. 14 seed, if necessary).
3) Coin flip by the Commissioner.
Three-Team Tie (or more)
When three or more teams are tied, the following procedure will be used in the following order until the tie is broken. If two teams re- main tied after a tiebreaker provision, the two-team tiebreaker formula will be used.
1) Best winning percentage of games played among the tied teams (Example: Team A is 3-1, Team B is 2-2 and Team C is 1-3 – Team A would be seeded highest, Team B second-highest and Team C lowest of the three).
2) Best winning percentage of the tied teams versus the No. 1 seed (and proceed- ing through the No. 14 seed, if necessary).
3) If two teams remain, coin flip by the Commissioner.
4) If three or more teams remain, draw by the Commissioner.
For the purpose of seeding, if an institution is precluded from participating in the tournament, such institution will automatically be seeded last. However, for the purpose of breaking ties, that team will remain where it finished in the regular-season standings BEFORE being seeded last.
