This year’s SEC continues to bolster its case as one of the strongest basketball conferences in recent memory.
The league will send at least six teams to the Sweet 16, tying a record set by the ACC nine years ago.
Alabama became the sixth SEC team to advance to the NCAA tournament’s second week on Sunday evening when the Crimson Tide shoved aside seventh-seeded Saint Mary’s 80-66. Kentucky and Florida had previously clinched their spots in the Sweet 16, as had Auburn, Tennessee and Arkansas.
The SEC will have a chance to break the record for most Sweet 16 bids from one conference if sixth-seeded Ole Miss can upset third-seeded Iowa State on Sunday night.