SEC as in a basketball conference The SEC has been synonymous with football power for decades. The gridiron teams need to move over and share the spotlight with the basketball squads. Selection Sunday saw 14 SEC schools get invited to the big dance.

The SEC rewrote the record book for most NCAA Tournament bids by a conference on Selection Sunday, sending 14 teams to the big dance this year with March Madness kicking off later this week. It toppled the previous record set by the Big East in back 2011, when the conference earned 11 bids for that year’s tournament.

The SEC’s NCAA tournament record is official. The conference had 14 of its 16 teams selected for the 68-team men’s NCAA tournament field in 2025. The SEC’s number of teams breaks the record the Big East set in 2011 when it got 11 of its 16 teams into the field.

Florida is the 2025 SEC tournament champion. The Gators defeated Tennessee 86-77 in Sunday's title game of the SEC men's basketball tournament at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. The second-seeded Gators and fourth-seeded Volunteers were each eyeing a conference crown and perhaps a No.

A decade-plus drought has ended for Florida basketball! With a 86-77 victory over Tennessee on Sunday, the Gators captured the Southeastern Conference’s men’s basketball tournament for the first time since 2014.

There are still five conference championship games before the NCAA releases the real bracket and four of those games could cause a change in the final bracket this afternoon. The most potentially impactful of those is the American Athletic Conference title game between top-seed Memphis and No.

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