SEC Bracket 2016 & SEC Tournament Predictions
SEC Tournament Information
2016 SEC tournament site: Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, TN
2016 SEC tournament dates: March 9th-13th, 2016
The values shown below were frozen prior to the beginning of the first round. However, you can still find our latest projected odds for each team to win the conference tournament in the last column of the standings table at the bottom of the page.
| 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 2016 SEC tournament bracket odds table above lists the round-by-round survival odds for every 2016 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 2016 SEC bracket.
Projected Conference Standings
SEC
| Current | Projection | Playoffs | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team | conf W | L | conf W | L | overall W | L | Win Conf | Win Tourn |
| Texas A&M | 13 | 5 | 13.0 | 5.0 | 26.0 | 7.0 | 100.0% | 41.5% |
| Kentucky | 13 | 5 | 13.0 | 5.0 | 25.0 | 8.0 | 0.0% | 58.5% |
| LSU | 11 | 7 | 11.0 | 7.0 | 19.0 | 14.0 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Vanderbilt | 11 | 7 | 11.0 | 7.0 | 19.0 | 13.0 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| S Carolina | 11 | 7 | 11.0 | 7.0 | 24.0 | 8.0 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Mississippi | 10 | 8 | 10.0 | 8.0 | 20.0 | 12.0 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Georgia | 10 | 8 | 10.0 | 8.0 | 19.0 | 13.0 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Arkansas | 9 | 9 | 9.0 | 9.0 | 16.0 | 16.0 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Florida | 9 | 9 | 9.0 | 9.0 | 19.0 | 14.0 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Alabama | 8 | 10 | 8.0 | 10.0 | 18.0 | 14.0 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Miss State | 7 | 11 | 7.0 | 11.0 | 14.0 | 17.0 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Tennessee | 6 | 12 | 6.0 | 12.0 | 15.0 | 19.0 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Auburn | 5 | 13 | 5.0 | 13.0 | 11.0 | 20.0 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Missouri | 3 | 15 | 3.0 | 15.0 | 10.0 | 21.0 | 0.0% | 0.0% |
A team's relative odds to win the 2016 SEC Tournament depend only partly on their SEC bracket seed. Winning the SEC Tournament also depends on the dynamics of the 2016 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 2016 SEC Tournament than lower seeded teams in the SEC bracket.