Auburn heads into the final weekend of the regular season with a chance to win the Southeastern Conference regular season title outright.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Herb Jones scored 20 points to help Alabama pull away from Iona and coach Rick Pitino for a 68-55 victory in the NCAA Tournament. Jones had a steal and layup to highlight an 11-0 run to give the second-seeded Crimson Tide breathing room. Pitino was taking his fifth school to the tournament and came in as a…
The Southeastern Conference has announced the postponement of four women’s basketball and three men’s basketball games on Thursday due to the icy weather that is moving throughout the region this week. Make-up dates for these games have not been determined at this time. SEC Women’s Basketball Postponements: Thursday, February 18 Ole Miss at Arkansas Auburn at Mississippi State LSU at…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (sec.org) – The Southeastern Conference unveiled its 13th annual men’s basketball coaches preseason All-SEC first and second teams Thursday, tipping off another great season of SEC men’s basketball. Ten different schools are represented on the two teams with Kentucky having four selections while Arkansas, Florida, Georgia and Vanderbilt have two selections each. In all, 31 different players received…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (sec.org)– Kentucky was predicted to win the 2017 Southeastern Conference men’s basketball championship in voting by a select panel of both SEC and national media members. The Wildcats are the overall preseason favorite for the 12th time since the 1998-99 season. Arkansas senior forward Moses Kingsley was the choice of the media for SEC Men’s Basketball Player of…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (sec.org) – The Southeastern Conference unveiled its 126-game men’s basketball schedule for the 2016-17 season. Conference play tips off on Thursday, December 29, with five games and continues on either Tuesday, January 3, or Wednesday, January 4. The December 29 start date will be the first time a conference game has been played in the month of December…
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (secsports.com) – Dan Leibovitz, a veteran basketball coach on the collegiate and professional levels and currently the primary men’s basketball administrator for The American Athletic Conference, has been named Associate Commissioner for Men’s Basketball for the Southeastern Conference, SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey announced Thursday. As the SEC’s Associate Commissioner for Men’s Basketball, Leibovitz will ensure ongoing communication related…
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Jamal Murray scored 23 points, Alex Poythress made a career-best four 3-pointers and No. 16 Kentucky had an easy time in an 83-59 rout of Alabama on Friday night in the Southeastern Conference Tournament. Playing about 50 miles southeast of his Clarksville, Tennessee, home, Poythress put on an offensive show in his final SEC tournament with…
