SEC Tournament

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The Southeastern Conference hosts postseason championship tournaments in most sports that it sponsors.

[edit] Men's & Women's Basketball

The SEC Men's and Women's Basketball Championship games are held after a seeded, single elimination tournament involving all league schools has been completed. The top two teams in both the Eastern and Western Divisions receive byes in the first round, while #3 in the East plays #6 from the West, #4 plays #5, etc. The brackets are set up so that #2 will play the winner of the game involving #3 from the other division, and #1 will play the winner of the game involving #4 from the other division. Ideally, the semi-finals will pit #1 from one division against #2 from the other, and the Championship Game will feature the regular season winners of the two divisions, although this rarely happens in practice.

Throughout its history, the SEC Championship basketball game held at various sites, including the Georgia Dome, the Superdome, the Gaylord Entertainment Center, the Birmingham Jefferson Convention Complex, the Pyramid, and Rupp Arena.

[edit] Baseball

The SEC Baseball tournament is a double-elimination tournament held each year at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in Hoover, Alabama. Eight of the 12 teams in the SEC make the tournament each year. The winner earns the SEC's guaranteed bid to the NCAA Tournament. The other teams have to hope for an at-large bid.