The SEC tournament has the potential to be the most entertaining conference championship in men's basketball due to the instability displayed by many teams over the course of the regular season.
Auburn, Tennessee, Florida and Kentucky have byes into the quarterfinals, but they won't be the main focus of the tournament, as an array of teams seeded between fifth and ninth are fighting to either maintain their position in the NCAA men's basketball tournament or get off the bubble before Selection Sunday.
The action in St. Louis begins Wednesday with a pair of first-round games, but the real drama begins Thursday, when the teams jockeying for spots in the Big Dance take the floor for the first time.