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NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament

The SEC women’s basketball tournament’s top seed came down to a coin toss.

Both the Texas Longhorns (29-2) and South Carolina Gamecocks (27-3) ended the regular-season as co-champions with a 15-1 record in SEC play. The Longhorns and Gamecocks split the season series, meaning the No. 1 seed in the SEC Tournament would come down to pure luck. SEC commissioner Greg Sankey performed a coin flip and landed on South Carolina’s emblem, meaning Gamecocks earned the No. 1 seed in the SEC Tournament for the fourth consecutive year.

“Much respect to our conference. The Southeastern Conference is the best conference in the country,” head coach Dawn Staley said following South Carolina’s 78-66 win over Kentucky on Sunday. “To win another regular-season conference championship means a great deal, because these aren’t going to come by very easily.”

South Carolina has won the SEC tournament four of the last five years. The SEC division as a whole has won the NCAA Tournament the past three years — South Carolina, 2024; LSU, 2023; South Carolina, 2022.

Here’s everything you need to know about the SEC tournament:

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When is the women’s SEC tournament schedule?

The SEC women’s basketball tournament will be held from March 5-9 at Bon Secours Wellness Arena in Greenville, S.C. Selection Sunday follows on March 16, with March Madness tipping off on March 21.

How to watch women’s SEC tournament

The SEC women’s basketball tournament will be broadcast on SEC Network, ESPN and ESPN 2. The first and second rounds will be shown exclusively on SEC Network. The first two quarterfinal matchups will be shown on ESPN, while the final two quarterfinals will be on SEC Network. The semifinal games will move to ESPN2, while the championship game will return to ESPN.

SEC Tournament schedule, bracket, scores

All times Eastern

March 5

First Round

March 6

Second Round

• Game 5: No. 8 Vanderbilt vs. No. 9 Tennessee (11 a.m.; SEC Network)
• Game 6: No. 5 Oklahoma vs. No. 12 Georgia (1:30 p.m.; SEC Network)
• Game 7: No. 7 Ole Miss vs. winner of Game 3 (6:00 p.m.; SEC Network)
• Game 8: No. 6 Alabama vs. winner of Game 4 (8:30 p.m.; SEC Network)

March 7

Quarterfinals

• Game 9: No. 1 South Carolina vs. winner of Game 5 (12 p.m.; ESPN)
• Game 10: No. 4 Kentucky vs. winner of Game 6 (2:30 p.m.; ESPN)
• Game 11: No. 3 Texas vs. winner of Game 7 (6:00 p.m.; SEC Network)
• Game 12: No. 4 LSU vs. winner of Game 8 (8:30 p.m.; SEC Network)

March 8

Semifinals

• Game 13: Winner of Game 9 vs. winner of Game 10 (4:30 p.m.; ESPN 2)
• Game 14: Winner of Game 11 vs. winner of Game 12 (7:00 p.m.; ESPN 2)

March 9

• Championship: Winner of Game 13 vs. winner of Game 14 (3:00 p.m.; ESPN)

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