The depth of the SEC led to many intriguing upsets via the common season and the joy ought to solely intensify within the convention match this week. The SEC Girls’s Basketball Match ideas off Wednesday and runs via Sunday at Bon Secours Wellness Area in Greenville, South Carolina.
Daybreak Staley’s South Carolina Gamecocks, the No. 1 general seed and the No. 3 crew within the nation, have been the crew to beat previously decade as they’ve gained 9 of the final 11 SEC Tournaments since 2015. Their competitors may be stiffer than ever this 12 months, nevertheless.
One of many greatest questions forward of the 2026 NCAA Match can be answered in Greenville as Texas and Vanderbilt are nonetheless in competitors for the ultimate No. 1 seed in March Insanity. South Carolina (29-1, 15-1 in SEC) has basically already locked certainly one of them in after profitable the SEC’s regular-season title. Unbeaten UConn and Large Ten champ UCLA have agency grips on No. 1 seeds as effectively. As of Sunday, the Longhorns have a slight edge over the Commodores. Texas was No. 4 and Vanderbilt was No. 5 within the NCAA’s newest prime 16 reveal. That being mentioned, the Commodores may steal it if they will make a deeper run than Texas this week.
Vanderbilt’s Mikayla Blakes may additionally use this match to make a stronger case for nationwide Participant of the Yr. Her greatest competitors in the meanwhile is UConn’s Sarah Robust. The Huskies are the reigning nationwide champions and nonetheless undefeated, however Blakes is main the Commodores in among the finest seasons in program historical past. In the meantime, Oklahoma’s Aaliyah Chavez is the strongest Freshman of the Yr candidate due to an explosive efficiency in a 94-82 additional time victory over South Carolina on Jan. 22, which was the Gamecocks’ solely convention loss this season.
LSU was additionally near upsetting South Carolina in February however fell quick. The Tigers have been a No. 3 seed within the NCAA Match yearly beneath Kim Mulkey, however they’re presently projected as a No. 2. They haven’t gained the SEC Match since 2003, however they did win a nationwide championship in 2023 with now-senior Flau’jae Johnson on the roster.
The latest NCAA prime 16 reveal confirmed 5 SEC groups, and it may have been six had Ole Miss not slipped up late within the common season. Regardless, control the Rebels as one of many groups that might make noise in March. A winter storm displaced them for a couple of weeks however they nonetheless managed to beat Vanderbilt in January. Will we see extra upsets within the coming week? We’ll simply have to attend and discover out.
Girls’s basketball SEC Match bracket
Girls’s basketball SEC Match schedule
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Wednesday, March 4 — First Spherical
- Sport 1: #16 Arkansas vs. #9 Kentucky– 11 a.m. (SEC Community)
- Sport 2: #13 Mississippi State vs. #12 Florida — 1:30 p.m. (SEC Community)
- Sport 3: #15 Auburn vs. #10 Texas A&M — 6 p.m. (SEC Community)
- Sport 4: #14 Missouri vs. #11 Alabama — 8:30 p.m. (SEC Community)
Thursday, March 5 — Second Spherical
- Sport 5: Sport 1 winner vs. #8 Georgia — 11 a.m. (SEC Community)
- Sport 6: Sport 2 winner vs. #5 Oklahoma — 1:30 p.m. (SEC Community)
- Sport 7: Sport 3 winner vs. #7 Ole Miss — 6 p.m. (SEC Community)
- Sport 8: Sport 4 winner vs. #6 Tennessee — 8:30 p.m. (SEC Community)
Friday, March 6 — Quarterfinals
- Sport 9: Sport 5 winner vs. #1 South Carolina — 12 p.m. (ESPN)
- Sport 10: Sport 6 winner vs. #4 LSU — 2:30 p.m. (ESPN)
- Sport 11: Sport 7 winner vs. #2 Vanderbilt– 6 p.m. (SEC Community)
- Sport 12: Sport 8 vs. #3 Texas — 8:30 p.m. (SEC Community)
Saturday, March 7 – Semifinals
- Sport 13: Sport 10 winner vs. Sport 9 winner — 4:30 p.m. (ESPN2)
- Sport 14: Sport 12 winner vs. Sport 11 winner — 7 p.m. (ESPN2)
Sunday, March 8 — Championship
Title sport: Sport 14 winner vs. Sport 13 winner — 3 p.m. (ESPN)
SEC Match odds
Odds as of March 2 through DraftKings
- Texas: -105
- South Carolina: +130
- LSU: +380
- Vanderbilt: +25000
- Ole Miss: +9000
- Oklahoma: +10000
- Tennessee: +17000
