US EditionMarch Madness: SEC gets record number of teams into NCAA Tournament
- The Southeastern Conference has set a new record by sending 14 of its 16 teams to the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, breaking the previous record of 11 teams set by the Big East in 2011.
- Only South Carolina and LSU from the SEC did not qualify for the tournament this season.
- Auburn Tigers, with a record of 28-5, received the tournament's top overall seed for the men's competition.
- In the women's bracket, UCLA earned the top overall seed for the first time in program history, despite never reaching the Final Four.
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SEC Sets NCAA Tournament Record With 14 Teams As Texas Sneaks Into Bracket
"It just means more." That's the SEC's official conference slogan. Maybe it can now change it to "it just means more teams in the NCAA Tournament than any conference ever" after the league sent a record 14 teams to the Big Dance. The biggest question mark for the league surrounded Texas, a team that many "bracketologists" had as one of the "First Teams Out" of the tournament. But the selection committee felt differently, electing to give Texas a…
March Madness brackets are set. The SEC dominates the men's with a record 14 teams
In an all-time record, 14 of the 68 teams in the men's tournament all come from one conference — the SEC. In the women's, UCLA and South Carolina are top seeds. Games tip off this coming week.
The NCAA Tournament runs through the SEC (and Cooper Flagg)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – On Saturday and Sunday, a Final Four happened here. Not Final Four. That’s slotted for three weeks from now in a city a thousand miles southwest. But you might’ve been forgiven for believing it was the real thing: a quartet of men’s college basketball teams, all among the country’s top six programs by almost every measure, all with legitimate aspirations for a national championship, converging in one spot to play a couple games
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