2026 SEC Tournament

#77
#77
Purplehaze26 said:
If UT loses to Vandy, looks like 3 or 4 teams could tie for 4th
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Up to 5 teams could maybe tie for third. We’d lose the head-to-head tie breakers with Kentucky, Missouri, and Arkansas but have it over Texas A&M. Bama would finish with a better record and get the #2 seed. It gets complicated with 3, 4, or 5 way ties but losing to KY twice, Arkansas, and Missouri would hurt our chances. The best thing to do is to just beat Vandy and secure the double bye.
 
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#79
bleedingTNorange said:
How can we get to a 2?
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I forgot that we just lost to Bama so we don’t have tge head-to-head.

Bama loses to Barn. We beat Vandy. Then we’re tied with Bama in W/Ls. But they probably have all possible tie breaker scenarios with their wins over Arkansas, Missouri, and Kentucky. And Texas A&M as well, so maybe #3 is our best possible SECT seed.
 
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#82
JMSqb11 said:
So basically the losses to Mizzou and Bama were for nothing. No harm no foul. Double bye here we come.
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I mean it took out 2nd place. Highest we can get is 3rd if Arky loses their last two and we beat Vandy.
 
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#83
#83
I think if we lose Saturday, then Vandy knocks us out of the double bye. We’d be 1-1 head-to-head with them, but they’re 1-0 versus Bama while we’re 1-1.
 
#84
#84
The tie breaker might have an unintended consequence. Losing to a bottom feeder might not be as bad as losing to a top team. TN’s losses are all versus the better teams.

Key SEC Tournament Tiebreaker Rules:

Two-Team Tie:
Head-to-head result.
Record against the highest-seeded team and moving down.
If still tied, a coin flip by the Commissioner.

Three-Team Tie (or more):
Winning percentage of games played among the tied teams.
If still tied, the best record against the highest-seeded team, proceeding down the standings.
If three or more teams remain tied after that, a draw by the Commissioner.
 
#85
#85
I know I am one of the few who think the conference tournaments matter and this is another case where I think it does.

With as many teams bunched up, there has to be a means to separate them and I believe the league tournament will be part of what does that
 
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#86
99gator said:
I know I am one of the few who think the conference tournaments matter and this is another case where I think it does.

With as many teams bunched up, there has to be a means to separate them and I believe the league tournament will be part of what does that
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It matters a lot to Auburn and Oklahoma. They’ll probably be out of the NCAAT if they go 0-1 in the SECT.
 
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#87
99gator said:
I know I am one of the few who think the conference tournaments matter and this is another case where I think it does.

With as many teams bunched up, there has to be a means to separate them and I believe the league tournament will be part of what does that
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The SECT matters, until the final games are played. I'm pretty positive seeding is done Saturday night, and they just wait for automatic bids on those Sunday games.

Now if the SECT Championship game was Saturday night then I'd say it matters.

But right now I think the only way the championship game really matters is if a team on the outside (Auburn) wins the thing.
 
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#88
MoCo_Vol said:
The SECT matters, until the final games are played. I'm pretty positive seeding is done Saturday night, and they just wait for automatic bids on those Sunday games.

Now if the SECT Championship game was Saturday night then I'd say it matters.

But right now I think the only way the championship game really matters is if a team on the outside (Auburn) wins the thing.
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Wade Houston almost stole an NCAAT spot in 1991 with a 13-21 record. Bama said “nope” in the SECT championship game.

I feel bad that Allan Houston never got to play in the NCAAT. Our GOAT on the perimeter.
 
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GBO18 said:
Oklahoma is not in. At all. They would have to win the SEC tourney.
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Well, they’re 16-14. A win at Texas on Saturday is 17-14. Then 2-1, 3-1, or 4-1 in the SECT is 19-15, 20-15, or 21-15. Plus if the committee still values later wins over earlier wins they’d have a couple of decent ones. They lost 9 in a row to START the SEC season 1-9. I don’t think that Oklahoma has to win the SECT for an NCAAT bid.
 
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Thunder Good-Oil said:
Well, they’re 16-14. A win at Texas on Saturday is 17-14. Then 2-1, 3-1, or 4-1 in the SECT is 19-15, 20-15, or 21-15. Plus if the committee still values later wins over earlier wins they’d have a couple of decent ones. They lost 9 in a row to START the SEC season 1-9. I don’t think that Oklahoma has to win the SECT for an NCAAT bid.
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Let’s see if they show up on anyone’s brackets if they beat Texas.
 
#92
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GBO18 said:
I mean it took out 2nd place. Highest we can get is 3rd if Arky loses their last two and we beat Vandy.
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I don't think there was legitimate thinking we'd get 2nd over Arkansas to be honest. To me the 2nd or 3rd spot is the same because its on other side of bracket from Florida, which is what we should really want. While the tourney means little, I was hoping for us to be full health before Ament injuries so we could get on a good run to continue peaking at the right time.

2nd or 3rd finish was really irrelevant for league tourney. Now a 2nd place finish with a 14-2 close to regular season could have shot us up a seed in the big tourney
 
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#94
TennesseeFan07 said:
I played around on the predictor tool last night. Scenarios ranged from T-2nd (3rd seed in SECT) to playing games on Wednesday.
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I’ve also got 3rd seed still in play, but Arkansas has to lose tonight and on Saturday.

We have a 1.5 game lead over #9 Texas so they could tie us at 11-7 if they win 2 and we lose Saturday. We have the head-to-head tie breaker with them. They’re 1-0 versus Missouri and would be 1-0 versus Arkansas and they’d be 1-0 versus Vandy which is better than us at 1-1. So with a log jam at 11-7 it must be possible that Texas has a scenario to leap ahead of us and bump us down to #9.
 
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MoCo_Vol said:
The SECT matters, until the final games are played. I'm pretty positive seeding is done Saturday night, and they just wait for automatic bids on those Sunday games.

Now if the SECT Championship game was Saturday night then I'd say it matters.

But right now I think the only way the championship game really matters is if a team on the outside (Auburn) wins the thing.
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I don’t think any conference championship game matters much except for potentially allowing a stolen bid by someone who wouldn’t have gotten in otherwise. I say that because, championship or not, the committee isn’t going to put much weight in a single game with 30+ others already done and considered.
 
#97
#97
7x teams could tie for #3 with 11-7 records.

1) Vandy (10-7) beats TN
2) TN (11-6) loses to Vandy

3) Texas (9-7) beats Arkansas and Oklahoma
4) Missouri (10-7) beats Arkansas
5) Arkansas (11-5) loses to Texas and Missouri

6) Texas A&M (10-7) beats LSU
7) Kentucky (10-7) beats Florida
 
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#98
#98
The first tie breaker in a 3+ way tie is the combined winning percentages versus all the rest in the group. We’d be 3-5 in a 7-way tie.
 
#99
#99
I almost want Arkansas to beat Texas tonight (and make our best possible finish 4 instead of 3) so that the pressure of avoiding an opening round game isn’t a possibility when we play Saturday.
 
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