2024-2025 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 won by the Auburn Tigers this season. Auburn has spent time as the number-one team in all of college basketball this year as well. Bruce Pearl has produced one of the best offensive teams in all of college basketball, which will make them tough to beat going into the SEC Tournament, where the Tigers are slight favorites over the rest of a loaded field.

As a whole, the SEC is the best conference in college basketball this season, which will set up an incredible SEC tournament. This league has at least six teams that could realistically win a national championship in the upcoming NCAA Tournament. That will make this conference tournament an absolute gauntlet, as whoever comes out on top will have to beat multiple elite teams in order to get the job done.

Along with Auburn, teams like Alabama, Tennessee, and Florida all have great chances to win the SEC tourney. That tournament will come down to which teams can maintain their composure and execute in clutch situations, as no game should be all that lopsided when the best of the best square off in Nashville.

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 and the newly-joined Texas and Oklahoma as the only SEC men’s basketball teams 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 16 schools that play an absolutely grueling conference schedule before the SEC single-elimination tournament begins. Tournament seeding is determined by the regular season standings. 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.

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Win Count All-Time in the SEC Tournament