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SEC Tournament 2023: Bracket, schedule, TV info released for March 9
By Keith Farner
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The SEC Tournament continues on Thursday with 4 matchups in Nashville.
No. 9-seeded Mississippi State will meet No. 8-seeded Florida at 1 p.m. ET to begin action on Thursday. Ole Miss at No. 13 seed will meet No. 5 Tennessee at 3 p.m. No. 10 Arkansas and No. 7 Auburn will meet at 7 p.m., and No. 14 LSU faces off with No. 6 Vanderbilt to wrap up action at 9 p.m.
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All of the action will be on the SEC Network.
Here’s a look at the bracket for the 2023 SEC Tournament:
Mississippi State finished the regular season as one of the SEC’s hottest teams winning 8 of the last 11 games. Florida secured back-to-back wins at Georgia and against LSU to close out the regular season. State needs all the wins it can get to improve its March Madness stock.
Tennessee, meanwhile, has had a rough stretch recently with 2 buzzer-beating defeats and difficult injury news. Arkansas and Auburn appear safe, but could upgrade their NCAA Tournament seeding.
Joe Lunardi at ESPN has 8 SEC teams in the field: Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, Texas A&M, Missouri, Arkansas, Auburn and Mississippi State. Vanderbilt is another team that could play its way in with a couple more wins.
Here’s a look at the full schedule for the rest of the week in Nashville (all times Eastern):
Quarterfinals (Friday)
- Mississippi State-Florida winner vs. Alabama — 1 p.m. ESPN
- Ole Miss-Tennessee winner vs. Missouri — 3 p.m ESPN
- Arkansas-Auburn winner vs. Texas A&M — 7 p.m. SEC Network
- LSU-Vanderbilt winner vs. Kentucky — 9 p.m. SEC Network
Semifinals (Saturday)
- Alabama-Mississippi State-Florida winner vs. Missouri-Tennessee-Ole Miss winner — 1 p.m. ESPN
- Kentucky-LSU-Vanderbilt winner vs. Texas A&M-Arkansas-Auburn winner — 3 p.m. ESPN
The championship game is set for 1 p.m. on Sunday on ESPN.
A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
