The SEC sent the second most teams to the NCAA Tournament, behind only the Big 12, but the team hasn’t enjoyed the success it had hoped given its seed lines.
The SEC was on the wrong side of the two biggest upsets of the 2024 NCAA Tournament with No. 3 Kentucky losing to No. 14 Oakland and No. 4 Auburn losing to No. 13 Yale in the first round. However, the likes of Tennessee has been able to advance to the second weekend of the ‘Big Dance.’
Elsewhere, Alabama scored the most points of any team in the first round, scoring 109 points on Charleston on Friday night, but the same can’t be said for Mississippi State, who lost by double digits in the first game of the NCAA Tournament on Thursday.