The Wildcats could finish as high as the 5-seed in the SEC Tournament and as low as the 11-seed.
Greetings, BBN!
This is it! The final week of the regular season! Time to look at who’s gonna make the field of 68. Auburn, Florida, Alabama, and Tennessee are all obviously NCAA Tournament locks — in fact, some of them are trending towards locks for 1-seeds — and Missouri, Texas A&M, Ole Miss, Kentucky, and Mississippi State will be joining them as single-digit seeds.
LSU and South Carolina won’t be in without the auto-bid, which has been the case for the past several weeks, and that leaves us with five bubbly teams battling it out on the cut line. All the SEC games this week will mean a lot, but especially the ones Vandy, Arkansas, Georgia, Texas, and Oklahoma are in.
As for the Wildcats, they have a wide range of spots that could finish in the final SEC standings, as outlined by Wildcats Tongue on Twitter.
Here is the most detailed SEC Tournament seeding scenarios graphic y’all are getting from me (it’s REALLY complicated)
This is the best case, worst case, and most likely scenarios for each of Kentucky’s possible finishes to the regular season: pic.twitter.com/UKPzModmBm
— WT – Lamont Enthusiast (@WildcatsTongue) March 3, 2025
Win out, and the highly-coveted double-bye is secure.
Lose one of these next two games — they’ll host LSU on Tuesday and be at Mizzou on Saturday — things get a lot dicier.
Here are your SEC standings as of March 3rd.
SEC Basketball Standings
- Auburn clinched and won the SEC regular season crown outright with their win over Kentucky on Saturday and will be the 1-seed in the SEC Tournament this week. They’re winning outright the most difficult basketball league in perhaps all of NCAA history and will probably win it by 2 or 3 games.
- Vanderbilt got the biggest win of the five bubble teams, taking down Missouri 97-93 in overtime. The Commodores are the safest of the five right now.
- Georgia got the second-best win of the bubble teams, winning at Texas convincingly to have the second-most wins of the five bubble squads.
- Arkansas took the worst loss of the weekend, falling flat on their face at South Carolina in a disastrous 72-53 loss. They still have better prospects right now than Texas and Oklahoma, who both cannot afford to slip much further as their records and resumes are being pushed to the breaking point.