{"id":190430,"date":"2026-03-13T17:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T17:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/190430\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T17:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T17:34:15","slug":"sec-basketball-tournament-live-updates-scores-bracket-how-to-watch-florida-vs-kentucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/190430\/","title":{"rendered":"SEC basketball tournament live updates, scores, bracket, how to watch: Florida vs. Kentucky"},"content":{"rendered":"

With just days left until Selection Sunday<\/a> and March Madness<\/a>, it\u2019s crunch time in conference tournaments around the country.<\/p>\n

In the SEC, it\u2019s all about Florida and whether the Gators can run it back with another national title. The Gators struggled to start the season and then even fell out of the national rankings completely by early January. But now, this team feels like a completely different story. The Gators ended the season on an 11-game win streak and their first regular-season SEC title since 2014.<\/p>\n

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Which other teams could contend in Nashville? Follow along below for scores, highlights, bracketology and more (scroll for live updates).<\/p>\n

SEC men\u2019s basketball tournament<\/p>\n

When: March 11-15
Where: Bridgestone Arena | Nashville, Tennessee
TV: ESPN, SEC Network
SEC tournament bracket, scores<\/a><\/p>\n

SEC schedule, results (all times ET)<\/p>\n

Friday, March 13 \u2014 Quarterfinals<\/p>\n

Game 9 | No. 9 Kentucky vs. No. 1 Florida | 1 p.m. | ESPN
Game 10 | No. 5 Tennessee vs. No. 4 Vanderbilt | 3:30 p.m. | ESPN
Game 11 | No. 15 Ole Miss vs. No. 2 Alabama | 7 p.m. | SEC Network
Game 12 | No. 11 Oklahoma vs. No. 3 Arkansas | 9:30 p.m. | SEC Network<\/p>\n

Saturday, March 14 \u2014 Semifinals<\/p>\n

Game 13 | G9 winner vs. G10 winner | 1 p.m. | ESPN
Game 14 | G11 winner vs. G12 winner | 3:30 p.m. | ESPN<\/p>\n

Live1 updatesFri, March 13, 2026 at 10:19 AM PDT<\/p>\n

Yahoo Sports Staff<\/p>\n

Florida\u2019s big men are having their way inside against Kentucky in the opening minutes of their quarterfinal game. Alex Condon has seven points as the Wildcats took a 16-6 lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With just days left until Selection Sunday and March Madness, it\u2019s crunch time in conference tournaments around the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4899,28,30,29,62,86572,3011],"class_list":["post-190430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-espn","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-sec","tag-sec-mens-basketball-tournament","tag-sec-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}