SEC breaks the record for most teams in the NCAA tournament in the individual season Kentucky Kernel

Nashville, Tenn. – The SEC wrote history on Sunday and broke the record for most teams in the NCAA tournament in a single season for every conference.

The conference managed to sneak 14 teams into the big dance, although reports before the clip revealed that Texas may be left out. The previous record, which was held by the Big East and plays in 2011, was 11 teams from a league.

SEC basketball really thrives in the 2024-25 season, which makes unprecedented progress in the strength of the league.

Not only 14 teams – Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Texas A & M and Vanderbilt – qualify for the field.

The only teams from the 16-team conference, which were not to be heard, how their name was selected on Sunday were LSU and South Carolina.

The longhorns, who needed the most help with the SEC tournament, contain the LSU and South Carolina, both of whom needed a car bid or did not have a chance, received two Quadrant 1 victories against Vanderbilt and Texas A & M before fell after Tenessee in the quarterfinals.

After this defeat, Tennessee head coach Rick Barnes was convinced that the Longhorns were a tournament team.

“For me there is no doubt that they are a NCAA team, the fact that he came here and made them play as they were,” said Barnes. “Greatest respect for the University of Texas and Rodney (Terry) and its employees. I think this was the fifth or sixth game in which her entire team tried to play intact. They came here in a very difficult situation. “

SEC commissioner Greg Saney was also firmly over the league, which deserves 14 teams, in contrast to the 13, which she received in one Interview with Pete Thamel von Espn.

In this interview, Thamel reported that Saney asked the conference in January to advance the assumption that 14 was not only possible, but also the likely reality.

“We should never talk about less than 14,” said Saney in history. “We literally said that every expectation we communicate has at least 14 and maybe more, depending on how the season takes place.”

The expectations were hardly unfounded for a conference that went to the league 185-23 before entering the league to start the season, and the victories over each individual projected seed No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3, apart from Michigan State and Wisconsin, who did not play SEC schools, apart from Michigan State and Wisconsin. This includes the conference with non-consumption against Houston (Auburn) and Duke (Kentucky).

Due to this monumental performance, several squads were able to do the dance with loss of conference recordings because teams such as Arkansas, Mississippi State, Vanderbilt and Georgia, who had lost all SEC records, had completed their non-Conlates at 47-5.

“It is the best league that may ever be in a year of College basketball,” said Kentucky head coach Mark Pope in front of the Sec tournament. “This second is important.”

Outside of No. 1 line, Alabama and Tennessee earned both seeds in dance No. 2, while Kentucky heard that the name asked its no. 3 line.

On the other side of the bracket in terms of convenience, the long horns were sent to Dayton for the first four to face Xavier as one of the last four teams that create the field.

The rest of the conference filled out the rest of the clip in different locations, including Oklahoma, which made his first NCAA tournament under head coach Porter Moser in the first year in the conference.

The Sooners, who won the Battle 4 Atlantis against Louisville in the Non-Con and entered the conference game unbeaten, secured in dance with a win against Georgia in the first round of the Sec tournament.

“We are part of it,” said Moser when he was asked about his trust in the tournament after beating Georgia. “I mean, I thought we were in this game over the bladder. What the conference is is unprecedented. It is unprecedented what this league is, what you have to do in the evening in and at night. “

John Calipari's Arkansas Razorbacks also blocked her place in the dance in Nashville and did not necessarily need a victory, but only against South Carolina.

Before the conference tournament, Vanderbilt and Georgia had locked up in their positions in the last few weeks of the regular season, while the rest did so earlier.

Since the conference in history cemented the best of all time and gains its first national championship since 2012 (Kentucky), 14 teams at the conference give the best chance to do this.

The first conference team to be played in Dayton in Dayton on Wednesday, March 19, in Dayton.