SEC Tournament Information

2020 SEC tournament site: Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, TV
2020 SEC tournament dates: March 11th-15th, 2020

These 2020 SEC tournament advancement odds and average projected seeds are based on our projected conference standings.

Seed Team R2 Quarter Semi Champ Win

NOTE: We use the structure below to calculate home advantage.

In some cases this may not be the true game location; instead we may use a proxy location that we think makes our home advantage calculation more accurate than simply treating the location as a neutral court.

  • First Round - neutral site.
  • Second Round - neutral site.
  • Quarterfinals - neutral site.
  • Semifinals - neutral site.
  • Championship Game - neutral site.

The 2020 SEC tournament bracket odds table above lists the round-by-round survival odds for every 2020 SEC tournament team. Using win odds calculations derived from our sophisticated power ratings, we analyze the likelihood and expected outcome of every possible path to the SEC tournament championship for every team in the 2020 SEC bracket.

Projected Conference Standings

SEC

  Current Projection Playoffs
Team conf W L conf W L overall W L Win Conf Win Tourn
Kentucky 12 2 14.7 3.3 24.7 6.3 86.5% 25.1%
Auburn 10 4 12.5 5.5 25.5 5.5 12.0% 16.1%
LSU 10 4 12.5 5.5 21.5 9.5 0.9% 15.6%
Florida 9 5 11.3 6.7 19.3 11.7 0.6% 15.3%
Miss State 8 6 10.3 7.7 19.3 11.7 0.0% 5.7%
S Carolina 8 6 10.2 7.8 18.2 12.8 0.0% 2.8%
Alabama 7 7 9.6 8.4 17.6 13.4 0.0% 6.5%
Texas A&M 8 6 8.8 9.2 14.8 15.2 0.0% 0.3%
Tennessee 7 7 8.5 9.5 16.5 14.5 0.0% 3.7%
Arkansas 5 9 7.5 10.5 19.5 11.5 0.0% 6.2%
Missouri 5 9 7.0 11.0 15.0 16.0 0.0% 1.1%
Mississippi 4 10 5.9 12.1 14.9 16.1 0.0% 0.8%
Georgia 4 10 5.3 12.7 15.3 15.7 0.0% 0.6%
Vanderbilt 1 13 2.1 15.9 10.1 20.9 0.0% 0.0%

The 2020 SEC projected standings help determine the seeds of the teams in the 2020 SEC Championship bracket. The remainder of the season is simulated a large number of times, and the resulting seeds are used to simulate the SEC tournament.

A team's relative odds to win the 2020 SEC Tournament depend only partly on their SEC bracket seed. Winning the SEC Tournament also depends on the dynamics of the 2020 SEC bracket. In some cases, the team with a better SEC Tournament seed may actually face a harder path to the SEC Tournament championship than a team with a worse SEC tournament seed.

In addition, because SEC tournament seeds are based on win-loss records in SEC conference games, SEC tournament seeds are not always the most accurate measure of a team's true performance level. This is another reason why higher seeded teams in the SEC bracket can have better odds to win the 2020 SEC Tournament than lower seeded teams in the SEC bracket.