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Florida is surging at accurate the right time.
Right here’s the whole lot you wish to know entering the SEC tournament this weekend in Nashville.
Can Florida flee it merit? Florida is merit, right?
The Gators, after final year’s national championship web, struggled to launch up the season. They misplaced out of the gate, and then ended up falling out of the national rankings utterly by early January.
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But now, this team feels look after an fully more than just a few story. The Gators ended the season on an 11-game web fling, capped with an 84-77 web over Kentucky on Saturday. They’ve misplaced accurate twice since the turn of the unique year, too, and ended the season with a 25-6 narrative and their first traditional-season SEC title since 2014. They won it by three paunchy games as the relaxation of the convention accurate make of beat itself up.
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Now, this isn’t to divulge that no one else in the SEC can compete with Florida. Arkansas has regarded real at times, even though Florida beat it by extra than 30 features final month. Alabama won nine of its final 10 games to jump merit up in the league standings and to find a double bye after a 23-point loss at Florida. And Vanderbilt, after a 16-0 launch up, leveled out somewhat but silent held its enjoy in the SEC.
But all eyes this week in Nashville will in all probability be on the Gators, who with out warning look able to a success merit-to-merit national titles another time. As lengthy as it doesn’t budge early, Florida would possibly per chance well in actual fact cease up with a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament, which will most captivating assist in that quest.
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That belief accurate just a few months ago didn’t even seem possible.
When: March 11-15
Where: Bridgestone Arena | Nashville, Tennessee
TV: ESPN, SEC Community
The SEC males’s basketball tournament bracket is station. (SEC)
SEC males’s basketball agenda, results All times ET
Wednesday, March 11 – First Round
Game 1 | No. 16 LSU vs. No. 9 Kentucky | 12:30 p.m. | SEC Community
Game 2 | No. 13 Mississippi State vs. No. 12 Auburn | 3 p.m. | SEC Community
Game 3 | No. 15 Ole Miss vs. No. 10 Texas | 7 p.m. | SEC Community
Game 4 | No. 14 South Carolina vs. No. 11 Oklahoma | 9:30 p.m. | SEC Community
Thursday, March 12 — 2d Round
Game 5 | G1 winner vs. No. 8 Missouri | 12:30 p.m. | SEC Community
Game 6 | G2 winner vs. No. 5 Tennessee | 3 p.m. | SEC Community
Game 7 | G3 winner vs. No. 7 Georgia | 7 p.m. | SEC Community
Game 8 | G4 winner vs. No. 6 Texas A&M | 9:30 p.m. | SEC Community
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Friday, March 13 — Quarterfinals
Game 9 | G5 winner vs. No. 1 Florida | 1 p.m. | ESPN
Game 10 | G6 winner vs. No. 4 Vanderbilt | 3:30 p.m. | ESPN
Game 11 | G7 winner vs. No. 2 Alabama | 7 p.m. | SEC Community
Game 12 | G8 winner vs. No. 3 Arkansas | 9:30 p.m. | SEC Community
Saturday, March 14 — Semifinals
Game 13 | G9 winner vs. G10 winner | 1 p.m. | ESPN
Game 14 | G11 winner vs. G12 winner | 3:30 p.m. | ESPN
Sunday, March 15 — Championship
Game 15 | G13 winner vs. G14 winner | 1 p.m. | ESPN
