Below is a list of SEC Men's Basketball Champions and Award Winners.
Champions and Award Winners
Official SEC champions in bold. From 1933 to 1952, except 1935, the SEC only awarded a championship to the winner of the conference tournament. In 1935 and from 1953 to 1978, the SEC did not hold a conference tournament and awarded its championship to the team with the best conference winning percentage. Since 1979, the SEC has held a conference tournament but continues to award the SEC Championship to the team with the best conference winning percentage.
From the 1939 to 1950, the NCAA tournament did not guarantee bids to conferences, and the SEC champion only participated in four tournaments. Starting in 1951, the NCAA has guaranteed a bid to the SEC champion. From 1951 to 1974, the team with the best conference winning percentage was awarded the SEC's sole bid to the NCAA tournament. Two teams in the 1950s declined the bid after players were declared ineligible for the tournament by the NCAA, and four champions declined the bid between 1959 and 1962 due to segregationist policies banning the schools from playing teams with black players; in these cases the other co-champion or the runner-up represented the SEC in the NCAA tournament. In 1972 and 1974, two ties were broken by head-to-head results or rankings. In 1975, the NCAA expanded the tournament field and allowed multiple teams from each conference, making tiebreakers between co-champions unnecessary. Since 1979, the SEC Tournament Champion is awarded the SEC's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.
The SEC Player of the Year was first awarded in 1965.
For the years when the SEC held the conference tournament and did not officially award a regular season champion, this table uses the modern definition of the regular season championship of having the best winning percentage. Year Regular Season Champion(s) SEC Tournament Champion SEC Player of the Year NCAA Tournament Results 1933 Kentucky Kentucky 1934 Kentucky Alabama 1935 KentuckyLSU No Tournament 1936 Kentucky Tennessee 1937 Georgia Tech Kentucky 1938 Kentucky Georgia Tech 1939 Alabama Kentucky 1940 Alabama Kentucky 1941 Kentucky Tennessee 1942 Tennessee Kentucky Kentucky 1942 Final Four 1943 Kentucky Tennessee 1944 Georgia TechTulane Kentucky 1945 KentuckyTennessee Kentucky 1946 KentuckyLSU Kentucky 1947 Kentucky Kentucky 1948 Kentucky Kentucky Kentucky 1948 NCAA Champions 1949 Kentucky Kentucky Kentucky 1949 NCAA Champions 1950 Kentucky Kentucky 1951 Kentucky Vanderbilt Kentucky 1951 NCAA Champions 1952 Kentucky Kentucky 1953 LSU No Tournament LSU 1953 Final Four 1954 KentuckyLSU No Tournament 1955 Kentucky No Tournament 1956 Alabama No Tournament 1957 Kentucky No Tournament 1958 Kentucky No Tournament Kentucky 1958 NCAA Champions 1959 Mississippi State No Tournament 1960 Auburn No Tournament 1961 Mississippi State No Tournament 1962 KentuckyMississippi State No Tournament 1963 Mississippi State No Tournament 1964 Kentucky No Tournament 1965 Vanderbilt No Tournament Clyde Lee, Vanderbilt 1966 Kentucky No Tournament Clyde Lee, VanderbiltPat Riley, Kentucky Kentucky 1966 NCAA Runner-Up 1967 Tennessee No Tournament Ron Widby, Tennessee 1968 Kentucky No Tournament Pete Maravich, LSU 1969 Kentucky No Tournament Pete Maravich, LSU 1970 Kentucky No Tournament Pete Maravich, LSU 1971 Kentucky No Tournament Johnny Neumann, Ole Miss 1972 KentuckyTennessee No Tournament Mike Edwards, TennesseeTom Parker, Kentucky 1973 Kentucky No Tournament Kevin Grevey, KentuckyWendell Hudson, Alabama 1974 AlabamaVanderbilt No Tournament Jan van Breda Kolff, Vanderbilt 1975 AlabamaKentucky No Tournament Kevin Grevey, KentuckyBernard King, Tennessee Kentucky 1975 NCAA Runner-Up 1976 Alabama No Tournament Bernard King, Tennessee 1977 KentuckyTennessee No Tournament Ernie Grunfeld, TennesseeBernard King, Tennessee 1978 Kentucky No Tournament Reggie King, Alabama Kentucky 1978 NCAA Champions 1979 LSU Tennessee Reggie King, Alabama 1980 Kentucky LSU Kyle Macy, Kentucky 1981 LSU Ole Miss Dominique Wilkins, Georgia LSU 1981 Final Four 1982 KentuckyTennessee Alabama Dale Ellis, Tennessee 1983 Kentucky Georgia Dale Ellis, TennesseeJeff Malone, Mississippi State Georgia 1983 Final Four 1984 Kentucky Kentucky Charles Barkley, Auburn Kentucky 1984 Final Four 1985 LSU Auburn Kenny Walker, Kentucky 1986 Kentucky Kentucky Kenny Walker, Kentucky LSU 1986 Final Four 1987 Alabama Alabama Derrick McKey, AlabamaTony White, Tennessee 1988 Kentucky (stripped) Kentucky (stripped) Will Perdue, Vanderbilt 1989 Florida Alabama Chris Jackson, LSU 1990 Georgia Alabama Chris Jackson, LSU 1991 LSUMississippi State Alabama Shaquille O'Neal, LSU 1992 Arkansas Kentucky Shaquille O'Neal, LSU 1993 Vanderbilt Kentucky Billy McCaffrey, VanderbiltJamal Mashburn, Kentucky Kentucky 1993 Final Four 1994 Arkansas Kentucky Corliss Williamson, Arkansas Arkansas 1994 NCAA ChampionsFlorida 1994 Final Four 1995 Kentucky Kentucky Corliss Williamson, Arkansas Arkansas 1995 NCAA Runner-Up 1996 Kentucky Mississippi State Tony Delk, Kentucky Kentucky 1996 NCAA ChampionsMississippi State 1996 Final Four 1997 South Carolina Kentucky Ron Mercer, Kentucky Kentucky 1997 NCAA Runner-Up 1998 Kentucky Kentucky Ansu Sesay, Ole Miss Kentucky 1998 NCAA Champions 1999 Auburn Kentucky Chris Porter, Auburn 2000 FloridaKentuckyLSUTennessee Arkansas Dan Langhi, VanderbiltStromile Swift, LSU Florida 2000 NCAA Runner-Up 2001 FloridaKentucky Kentucky Tayshaun Prince, Kentucky 2002 Alabama Mississippi State Erwin Dudley, Alabama 2003 Kentucky Kentucky Keith Bogans, KentuckyRon Slay, Tennessee 2004 Mississippi State Kentucky Lawrence Roberts, Mississippi State 2005 Kentucky Florida Brandon Bass, LSU 2006 LSU Florida Glen Davis, LSU Florida 2006 NCAA ChampionsLSU 2006 Final Four 2007 Florida Florida Derrick Byars, VanderbiltChris Lofton, Tennessee Florida 2007 NCAA Champions 2008 Tennessee Georgia Shan Foster, Vanderbilt 2009 LSU Mississippi State Marcus Thornton, LSU 2010 Kentucky Kentucky John Wall, Kentucky 2011 Florida Kentucky Chandler Parsons, Florida Kentucky 2011 Final Four 2012 Kentucky Vanderbilt Anthony Davis, Kentucky Kentucky 2012 NCAA Champions 2013 Florida Ole Miss Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Georgia 2014 Florida Florida Scottie Wilbekin, Florida Kentucky 2014 NCAA Runner-upFlorida 2014 Final Four 2015 Kentucky Kentucky Bobby Portis, Arkansas Kentucky 2015 Final Four 2016 Texas A&M Kentucky Kentucky Tyler Ulis, Kentucky 2017 Kentucky Kentucky Malik Monk, KentuckySindarius Thornwell, South Carolina South Carolina 2017 Final Four 2018 AuburnTennessee Kentucky Yante Maten, GeorgiaGrant Williams, Tennessee 2019 LSU Auburn Grant Williams, Tennessee Auburn 2019 Final Four 2020 Kentucky Cancelled Mason Jones, ArkansasReggie Perry, Mississippi StateImmanuel Quickley, Kentucky 2021 Alabama Alabama Herb Jones, Alabama 2022 Auburn Tennessee Oscar Tshiebwe, Kentucky 2023 Alabama Alabama Brandon Miller, Alabama2024 Tennessee Auburn Dalton Knecht, Tennessee Alabama 2024 Final Four2025 Auburn Florida Johni Broome, Auburn Florida 2025 NCAA ChampionsAuburn 2025 Final Four2026 Florida Arkansas Darius Acuff Jr, Arkansas
Divisional Championships From 1992 to 2011 the SEC was organized into two divisions and divisional championships were awarded. Bold denotes the conference regular season champion(s). +YearEastern Division Champion(s)Western Division Champion(s)1992KentuckyArkansas1993VanderbiltArkansas1994FloridaKentuckyArkansas1995KentuckyArkansasMississippi State1996KentuckyMississippi State1997South CarolinaOle Miss1998KentuckyOle Miss1999TennesseeAuburn2000FloridaKentuckyTennesseeLSU2001KentuckyFloridaOle Miss2002Georgia (vacated)KentuckyFloridaAlabama2003KentuckyMississippi State2004KentuckyMississippi State2005KentuckyAlabamaLSU2006TennesseeLSU2007FloridaMississippi StateOle Miss2008TennesseeMississippi State2009TennesseeSouth CarolinaLSU2010KentuckyMississippi StateOle Miss2011FloridaAlabama
Regular season championships by school From 1933 to 1952, except 1935, regular season championships are unofficial and defined by the current SEC standard of best conference winning percentage. School Number Last ListKentucky 50 20201933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1938, 1941, 1943, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2020LSU 12 20191935, 1946, 1953, 1954, 1979, 1981, 1985, 1991, 2000, 2006, 2009, 2019Tennessee 11 20241942, 1943, 1945, 1967, 1972, 1977, 1982, 2000, 2008, 2018, 2024Alabama 10 20231939, 1940, 1956, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1987, 2002, 2021, 2023Florida 8 20261989, 2000, 2001, 2007, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2026Mississippi State 6 20041959, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1991, 2004Auburn 5 20251960, 1999, 2018, 2022, 2025Vanderbilt 3 19931965, 1974, 1993Arkansas 2 19941992, 1994Georgia Tech 2 19441937, 1944Texas A&M 1 20162016South Carolina 1 19971997Georgia 1 19901990Tulane 1 19441944Missouri 0 —Oklahoma 0 —Ole Miss 0 —Sewanee 0 —Texas 0 —
Divisional championships by school SchoolDivision Number LastListKentuckyEastern 12 20101992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2010Mississippi StateWestern 7 20101995, 1996, 2003, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2010FloridaEastern 6 20111994, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2007, 2011Ole MissWestern 5 20101997, 1998, 2001, 2007, 2010TennesseeEastern 5 20081999, 2000, 2006, 2008, 2009ArkansasWestern 4 19951992, 1993, 1994, 1995LSUWestern 4 20092000, 2005, 2006, 2009AlabamaWestern 3 20112002, 2005, 2011South CarolinaEastern 2 20091997, 2009AuburnWestern 1 19991999VanderbiltEastern 1 19931993GeorgiaEastern 0 —
Tournament championships by school No tournament was held in 1935 or from 1953 to 1978. School NumberLastListKentucky 3120181933, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1942, 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1952, 1984, 1986, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2010, 2011, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018Alabama 820231934, 1982, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 2021, 2023Florida 520252005, 2006, 2007, 2014, 2025Tennessee 520221936, 1941, 1943, 1979, 2022Auburn 320241985, 2019, 2024Mississippi State 320091996, 2002, 2009Arkansas 220262000, 2026Ole Miss 220131981, 2013Vanderbilt 220121951, 2012Georgia 220081983, 2008LSU 119801980Georgia Tech 119381938Missouri 0—Oklahoma 0—Sewanee0—South Carolina 0—Texas 0—Texas A&M 0—Tulane0—
Player of the year award winners by school Player of the year first awarded in 1965. Two people have been awarded player of the year in the same season 13 times, one of which was to players on the same team. In 2020 three people were awarded player of the year, the only time more than two have received the award in the same season. School Winners YearsKentucky18 1966, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1980, 1985, 1986, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2003, 2010, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2022Tennessee141967, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1977 (×2), 1982, 1983, 1987, 2003, 2007, 2018, 2019, 2024LSU111968, 1969, 1970, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 2000, 2005, 2006, 2009Vanderbilt81965, 1966†, 1974, 1988, 1993, 2000, 2007, 2008Alabama71973, 1978, 1979, 1987, 2002, 2021, 2023Arkansas51994, 1995, 2015, 2020, 2026Auburn31984, 1999, 2025Mississippi State3 1983, 2004, 2020Georgia31981, 2013, 2018Florida22011, 2014Ole Miss21971, 1998South Carolina12017Missouri0Oklahoma0Texas0Texas A&M0Tulane0
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