Draft:2026 SEC men's basketball tournament

2026 SEC men's basketball tournament
2026 SEC men's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2025–26
Teams	16
Site	Bridgestone Arena; Nashville, Tennessee
Television	SEC Network, ESPN
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Comment: Simply a case of WP:TOOSOON. Dan arndt (talk) 01:51, 24 April 2025 (UTC)

2025–26 Southeastern Conference men's basketball standings
v t e	Conf.				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
Alabama	0	–	0	–	0	–	0	–
Arkansas	0	–	0	–	0	–	0	–
Auburn	0	–	0	–	0	–	0	–
Florida	0	–	0	–	0	–	0	–
Georgia	0	–	0	–	0	–	0	–
Kentucky	0	–	0	–	0	–	0	–
LSU	0	–	0	–	0	–	0	–
Mississippi State	0	–	0	–	0	–	0	–
Missouri	0	–	0	–	0	–	0	–
Oklahoma	0	–	0	–	0	–	0	–
Ole Miss	0	–	0	–	0	–	0	–
South Carolina	0	–	0	–	0	–	0	–
Tennessee	0	–	0	–	0	–	0	–
Texas	0	–	0	–	0	–	0	–
Texas A&M	0	–	0	–	0	–	0	–
Vanderbilt	0	–	0	–	0	–	0	–

† 2026 SEC tournament winner Rankings from AP poll

The 2026 SEC men's basketball tournament will be a postseason men's basketball tournament for the 2025–26 season for the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The tournament will be held from March 11–15, 2026, at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee. This will the second tournament since the conference expanded to 16 teams with the additions of Oklahoma and Texas.^[1]

2024–25 season

Florida won its fifth tournament and received an automatic bid to the 2025 NCAA tournament, where they would go on to win it all after defeating Houston, 65–63, in the championship game.

Seeds

* – denotes overtime

Seed	School	Conf.	Over.	First round March 11	Second round March 12	Quarterfinals March 13
2026 SEC men's basketball tournament seeds and results
1.	#‡	0–0	0–0	Bye	Bye	vs. TBD
2.	‡	0–0	0–0	Bye	Bye	vs. TBD
3.	‡	0–0	0–0	Bye	Bye	vs. TBD
4.	‡	0–0	0–0	Bye	Bye	vs. TBD
5.	†	0–0	0–0	Bye	vs. TBD
6.	†	0–0	0–0	Bye	vs. TBD
7.	†	0–0	0–0	Bye	vs. TBD
8.	†	0–0	0–0	Bye	vs. TBD
9.		0–0	0–0	vs. TBD
10.		0–0	0–0	vs. TBD
11.		0–0	0–0	vs. TBD
12.		0–0	0–0	vs. TBD
13.		0–0	0–0	vs. TBD
14.		0–0	0–0	vs. TBD
15.		0–0	0–0	vs. TBD
16.		0–0	0–0	vs. TBD
# – SEC regular season champions, and tournament No. 1 seed ‡ – Received a double-bye into the conference tournament quarterfinal round † – Received a single-bye into the conference tournament second round Overall records include all games played in the SEC tournament.

Schedule

Game	Time*	Matchup^#	Final score	Television
First round – Wednesday, March 11
1	11:30 a.m.	No. 12 TBD vs No. 13 TBD	–	ESPN+
2	2:00 p.m.	No. 9 TBD vs No. 16 TBD	–
3	6:00 p.m.	No. 10 TBD vs No. 15 TBD	–
4	8:30 p.m.	No. 11 TBD vs No. 14 TBD	–
Second round – Thursday, March 12
5	11:30 a.m.	No. 5 TBD vs Game 1 Winner	–	ESPN
6	2:00 p.m.	No. 8 TBD vs Game 2 Winner	–	ESPN+
7	6:00 p.m.	No. 7 TBD vs Game 3 Winner	–	ESPN+
8	8:30 p.m.	No. 6 TBD vs Game 4 Winner	–	ESPN2
Quarterfinals – Friday, March 13
9	11:30 a.m.	No. 4 TBD vs Game 5 Winner	–	ESPN2
10	2:00 p.m.	No. 1 TBD vs Game 6 Winner	–	ESPN2
11	6:00 p.m.	No. 2 TBD vs Game 7 Winner	–	ESPN
12	8:30 p.m.	No. 3 TBD vs Game 8 Winner	–	ESPN
Semifinals – Saturday, March 14
13	6:00 p.m.	Game 9 Winner vs Game 10 Winner	–	ESPN2
14	8:30 p.m.	Game 11 Winner vs Game 12 Winner	–	ESPN2
Championship – Sunday, March 15
15	5:00 p.m.	Game 13 Winner vs Game 14 Winner	–	ESPN
*Game times in CDT. #-Rankings denote tournament seed.

Bracket


First round Wednesday, March 11	Second round Thursday, March 12	Quarterfinals Friday, March 13	Semifinals Saturday, March 14	Championship Sunday, March 15



		1

	8

9

16

		4

	5

12

13

		2

	7

10

15

		3

	6

11

14

* Indicates overtime game

Game summaries

First round

Second round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Championship

Tournament awards and honors

SEC All-Tournament Team

Name	Pos.	Height	Weight	Year	Team

SEC Tournament Most Outstanding Player

Name	Pos.	Height	Weight	Year	Team

References

^ Durando, Bennett. "SEC approves new basketball schedule, tournament structure for 16-team expansion". The Tennessean. Retrieved 2025-02-23.

[1] Durando, Bennett. "SEC approves new basketball schedule, tournament structure for 16-team expansion". The Tennessean. Retrieved 2025-02-23.

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