Can Florida run it back?<\/p>\n
Florida is back, right?<\/p>\n
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The Gators, after last year\u2019s national championship win, struggled to start the season. They lost out of the gate, and then ended up falling out of the national rankings completely by early January.<\/p>\n
But now, this team feels like a completely different story. The Gators ended the season on an 11-game win streak, capped with an 84-77 win over Kentucky on Saturday. They\u2019ve lost just twice since the turn of the new year, too, and ended the season with a 25-6 record and their first regular-season SEC title since 2014. They won it by three full games as the rest of the conference just sort of beat itself up.<\/p>\n
[Enter Yahoo Fantasy Bracket Mayhem now for your shot at $50K<\/a>]<\/p>\n Now, this isn\u2019t to say that nobody else in the SEC can compete with Florida. Arkansas has looked solid at times, though Florida beat it by more than 30 points last month. Alabama won nine of its last 10 games to jump back up in the league standings and earn a double bye after a 23-point loss at Florida. And Vanderbilt, after a 16-0 start, leveled out a bit but still held its own in the SEC.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n But all eyes this week in Nashville will be on the Gators, who suddenly look capable of winning back-to-back national titles again. As long as it doesn’t slip early, Florida may actually end up with a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament, which will only help in that quest.<\/p>\n That idea just a few months ago didn\u2019t even seem possible.<\/p>\n SEC men\u2019s basketball tournament basics<\/p>\n When: March 11-15 The SEC men’s basketball tournament bracket is set. (SEC)<\/p>\n SEC men\u2019s basketball schedule, results<\/p>\n All times ET<\/p>\n Wednesday, March 11 \u2013 First Round<\/p>\n Game 1 | No. 9 Kentucky 87, No. 16 LSU 82<\/a> Advertisement<\/p>\n Thursday, March 12 \u2014 Second Round<\/p>\n Game 5 | Kentucky 78, Missouri 72<\/a> Friday, March 13 \u2014 Quarterfinals<\/p>\n Game 9 | Florida 71, Kentucky 63<\/a> Saturday, March 14 \u2014 Semifinals<\/p>\n Game 13 | No. 1 Florida vs. No. 5 Vanderbilt | 1 p.m. | ESPN Sunday, March 15 \u2014 Championship<\/p>\n Game 15 | G13 winner vs. G14 winner | 1 p.m. | ESPN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida is surging at just the right time. Here\u2019s everything you need to know entering the SEC tournament…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,60,62],"class_list":["post-191588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-kentucky","tag-sec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191588","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=191588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Where: Bridgestone Arena | Nashville, Tennessee
TV: ESPN, SEC Network<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/f2048ed0-1b73-11f1-bfff-e41cd2b282df.jpeg\"\/)
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Game 2 | Auburn 77, Mississippi State 61<\/a>
Game 3 | Ole Miss 76, Texas 66<\/a>
Game 4 | Oklahoma 86, South Carolina 74<\/a><\/p>\n
Game 6 | Tennessee 72, Kentucky 62<\/a>
Game 7 | Ole Miss 76, Georgia 72<\/a>
Game 8 | Oklahoma 83, Texas A&M 63<\/a><\/p>\n
Game 10 | Vanderbilt 75, Tennessee 68<\/a>
Game 11 | Ole Miss 80, Alabama 79<\/a>
Game 12 | Arkansas 82, Oklahoma 79<\/a><\/p>\n
Game 14 | No. 15 Ole Miss vs. No. 3 Arkansas | 3:30 p.m. | ESPN<\/p>\n