2023-2024 SEC Basketball Conference Championship Futures Odds

Historically, the SEC has been dominated by a small number of teams in college basketball. But this season, it could be one of the hardest conferences to predict from a college basketball betting perspective. Continue reading for our breakdown of the SEC basketball futures markets, and what bettors can expect from some of the top teams in this conference.

SEC Conference Betting Odds

SEC Basketball Futures Betting Outlook

The race for the SEC regular season title was a close one, with the Tennessee Volunteers finishing with the best record during league play. Four teams finished just a game behind the Volunteers in the SEC standings at the end of the regular season. Now the Vols have earned the top seed in the SEC tournament, which they hope will yield a conference title and a potential top seed in the NCAA Tournament.

Rick Barnes’ Volunteers are peaking at the right time this season, thanks in large part to the play of Dalton Knect. The senior has been on fire of late, scoring in bunches consistently for a Volunteers team that is ranked in the top-five in the country going into the SEC tournament. The national player of the year contender is a big reason Tennessee is the favorite to win this conference tournament.

The Vols are being chased by Auburn, Kentucky, Alabama, and Florida, who are the top contenders to win the SEC if Tennessee does not. All four of these teams are explosive offensively, especially Alabama, the team with arguably the best offense in the country. With all of this firepower on offense in this tournament, the champion could be the team that finds a way to secure the most stops on defense.

SEC Conference History

The Southeastern Conference, better known as the SEC, held its first men’s basketball tournament in 1933. In the inaugural tournament, the Kentucky Wildcats beat the Mississippi State Bulldogs by a score of 46-27. This was the first of Kentucky’s 31 tournament championships.

To put the number of Kentucky’s SEC tournament wins into perspective, the team with the second-most SEC men’s basketball tournament championships is Alabama with eight. Missouri, South Carolina, and Texas A&M have yet to win one. South Carolina has played in two championship games while Texas A&M made it to the big game thrice, leaving Missouri as the only SEC men’s basketball team to never make it to the finals.

Since 2010, the Wildcats have claimed six SEC Tournament championships including a run of four straight titles between 2015 and 2018. Their tournament championship run came to an end in 2019 when they fell to Tennessee in the semifinals. The Volunteers went on to lose to Auburn who won their second SEC tournament championship. As is the case with all SEC tournament winners, the Tigers earned an automatic entry into the NCAA Tournament where they advanced to the Final Four for the first time in the school’s history.

For those who don’t know, the SEC is made up of 14 schools that play an 18-game conference schedule before the SEC single-elimination tournament begins. Tournament seeding is determined by the regular season standings. The bottom four seeds play in the opening round while the top four receive automatic byes into the quarterfinals. As mentioned, the tournament winner earns a spot in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament.

SEC tournament champions have gone on to win the NCAA tournament 11 times. Of those 11 championships, Kentucky has 8 while Florida has two thanks to back-to-back tournament wins in 2006 and 2007. Arkansas won the NCAA tournament in 1994. The last SEC team to make it to the finals was Kentucky in 2014. They lost to UConn.

Other College Basketball Conference Odds

• AAC Conference
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• A-10 Conference
• Big East Conference
• Big 10 Conference
• Big 12 Conference
• Pac-12 Conference
• Mountain West Conference
• West Coast Conference

Win Count All-Time in the SEC Tournament