The SEC tournament continues on Friday with the quarterfinal round. Only two teams are assured a spot in the NCAA Tournament, but there are a handful of teams hoping to crash the party.
SEC Tournament 2014 schedule and bracket: Florida, Kentucky begin tournament play Friday
The SEC tournament starts its quarterfinal round on Friday. Here’s your complete schedule for the day.
Rob Foldy
The Florida Gators cruised to to the regular season title, going 18-0 in conference play. They can lock down a No. 1 seed by winning the tournament this weekend. Florida is facing the Missouri Tigers, who are coming off a double-overtime win over Texas A&M. The Tigers are still hanging on the bubble and an upset win over Florida would be a big boost in their favor.
The South Carolina Gamecocks are the feel-good story of this tournament. After finishing next-to-last in the regular season, South Carolina blew out Auburn in the first round and popped Arkansas’ bubble in a shocking 71-69 win. They now face the Tennessee Volunteers, and by all rights this game shouldn’t be close, but stranger things have happened in March.
The Kentucky Wildcats have had a disappointing season, to put it mildly. After starting as a consensus preseason No. 1 team, they dropped four of their last seven games to stumble out of the Top 15. Despite the rough finish, they still hold the No. 2 seed and should get into the NCAAs without much trouble. They’ll be taking on the LSU Tigers in the SEC quarterfinals, who took care of the Alabama Crimson Tide in a rivalry game that’s way more interesting in football than basketball. The two teams split the regular season series, with LSU dropping a one-point overtime loss on in Lexington, so this isn’t a gimme by any means.
In the final game of the night, the third-seeded Georgia Bulldogs host the Mississippi Rebels. The sixth-seeded Rebels got 21 points each from Jarvis Henderson and Marshall Henderson in dispatching 14-seeded Mississippi State 78-66 on Thursday.
Friday’s complete schedule rundown
No. 1 Florida vs. No. 8 Missouri, 1 p.m. ET, ESPNU
No. 4 Tennessee vs. No. 13 South Carolina, 3 p.m. ET, ESPNU
No. 2 Kentucky vs. No. 7 LSU, 7 p.m. ET, SEC TV
No. 3 Georgia vs. No. 6 Ole Miss, 9 p.m. ET, SEC TV
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