With just one day left until Selection Sunday and March Madness just around the corner, it’s crunch time in conference tournaments around the country.
In the SEC, it’s all about Florida and whether the Gators can run it back with another national title. The Gators struggled to start the season and then even fell out of the national rankings completely by early January. But now, this team feels like a completely different story. The Gators ended the season on an 11-game win streak and their first regular-season SEC title since 2014.
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Which other teams could contend in Nashville? Follow along below for scores, highlights, bracketology and more (scroll for live updates).
SEC men’s basketball tournament
When: March 11-15
Where: Bridgestone Arena | Nashville, Tennessee
TV: ESPN, SEC Network
SEC tournament bracket, scores
SEC schedule, results (all times ET)
Saturday, March 14 — Semifinals
Game 13 | No. 1 Florida vs. No. 4 Vanderbilt | 1 p.m. | ESPN
Game 14 | No. 15 Ole Miss vs. No. 3 Arkansas | 3:30 p.m. | ESPN
Sunday, March 15 — Championship
Game 15 | G13 winner vs. G14 winner | 1 p.m. | ESPN
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Yahoo Sports Staff
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Yahoo Sports Staff
Duke Miles hasn’t hit a shot yet but he just got fouled on a 3-point attempt and made all three of his free throws.
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Yahoo Sports Staff
No surprise the Gators and Commodores are playing at a fast, back-and-forth pace. Tyler Tanner has seven points in the early going.
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Yahoo Sports Staff
Duke Miles scored 30 points in Vandy’s quarterfinal win over Tennessee on Friday. The Vols didn’t have much of answer for either Miles or point guard Tyler Tanner.
Florida’s size, however, could give Vanderbilt trouble.
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Yahoo Sports Staff
Welcome back to our SEC tournament live blog!
We still have about a half hour until the first semifinal of the day between Florida and Vanderbilt.
The two teams have only played once this year and it was a high-scoring game that went down to the final seconds. The Gators came out on top in that one, 98-94; five Florida players had 14+ points in the win.
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Ian Casselberry
Vanderbilt plays Florida in Saturday’s first SEC semifinal matchup with tipoff at 1 p.m. ET.
That’s followed by Arkansas facing Ole Miss (the first No. 15 seed to reach the semifinal) at 3 p.m. ET.
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Ian Casselberry
Tae Davis scored to pull Oklahoma to within two points once again. Nijel Pack then fouled Darius Acuff Jr., who made one of two free throws.
That gave Oklahoma a chance for a game-tying 3, but Pack missed his shot from deep behind the arc with five seconds left. Arkansas got the rebound and time ran out on the Sooners.
Acuff scored 37 points, two away from an Arkansas SEC tournament record (39 by Todd Day). He added five rebounds, five assists and three steals to lift the Razorbacks to the SEC tournament semifinals.
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Ian Casselberry
Xzayvier Brown makes a layup for Oklahoma to once again cut Arkansas’ lead to two points, but then fouls Maleek Thomas.
Thomas hits both free throws to restore the Sooners’ lead to 81-77 with 18 seconds left.
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Ian Casselberry
With a 77-75 lead, Arkansas’ Darius Acuff Jr. curls off a screen and hits a baseline jumper to increase the Razorbacks’ lead to four points with 27 seconds remaining in regulation.
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Ian Casselberry
Mohamed Wague makes one of two free throws to close Oklahoma’s deficit to 77-73, but Tae Davis rebounds the miss and is fouled.
Davis makes both free throws and the Sooners trail 77-75 with 53 seconds left in the game.
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Ian Casselberry
Arkansas may be starting to pull away here. Darius Acuff Jr. took a fearless 3-pointer from the top of the arc and drilled it, giving the Razorbacks a 7-point lead with 2:27 remaining.
Acuff has 34 points, 5 rebounds and 5 assists.
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Ian Casselberry
Malique Ewin broke yet another deadlock driving to the rim for a dunk. He then stole a Nijel Pack pass, leading to a layup from Billy Richmond III and 71-67 lead for Arkansas.
Sensing a surge, Oklahoma coach Porter Moser calls timeout with 4:25 remaining in the game.
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Ian Casselberry
Oklahoma extended its lead to 61-57 on a Derrion Reid free throw and Nijel Pack 3-pointer.
But Arkansas quickly evened it up on two Trevon Brazile free throws and a layup from Malique Ewin.
Back and forth they go in Nashville!
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Ian Casselberry
A 7-3 run by Oklahoma has tied the score at 57-57 with Derrion Reid leading the way with four points.
Reid now has 17 points for the Sooners with five rebounds.
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Ian Casselberry
Arkansas has the lead again after a 10-4 surge with Darius Acuff Jr. and Trevon Brazile each scoring four points during the run.
The Razorbacks have a 54-50 lead and Oklahoma calls timeout.
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Ian Casselberry
If the opening minutes of the second half are any indication, this is going to be a back-and-forth game to the finish.
Oklahoma goes back on top, 46-44, with a Derrion Reid 3-pointer from the corner.
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Ian Casselberry
Arkansas has regained the lead, 43-42, on a 3-pointer from Maleek Thomas and tip-in dunk by Nick Pringle.
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Ian Casselberry
Oklahoma and Arkansas are underway for the second half. The Sooners have a 39-37 lead, having led for most of the first half.
Again, an NCAA tournament bid might be on the line for Oklahoma, which bracketologists see as the first team out with a loss tonight.
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Ian Casselberry
Darius Acuff Jr. dashed down the court to drill a 3-pointer from just past the halfcourt logo to close Arkansas to within 39-37 at halftime.
Acuff has a game-high 21 points on 7-of-10 shooting (4-of-7 on 3s). Nijel Pack leads Oklahoma with 16 points. They are the two players who have scored in double figures thus far.
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Ian Casselberry
Oklahoma has its largest lead of the first half at 35-27 after Nijel Pack was fouled on a 3-point attempt and converted all three free throws. He leads the Sooners with 14 points, shooting 5-for-8 from the floor.
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Ian Casselberry
The Sooners are cleaning the glass thus far, snatching an 18-8 lead in rebounds over the Razorbacks.
Mohamed Wague and Jadon Jones each have four boards for Oklahoma, and Xzayvier Brown has three.
