Half of the Elite 8 field is made up of SEC teams

As it turns out, the Southeastern Conference was actually pretty good this season!

Of the eight teams remaining in the 2025 NCAA Tournament, half of them hail from the SEC — and they’re all ranked as a 1-seed or 2-seed. Florida, Auburn, Tennessee, and Alabama have all cracked the Elite 8. This marks just the third time in the history of the tournament that one conference has fielded four teams in the national quarterfinals (2016 ACC and 2009 Big East).

If everything works out as the league hopes, we could even see an all-SEC Final Four. With all four schools in different regions, it’s more than possible. What started with an NCAA Tournament record 14 programs making the 68-team bracket could end with nothing but the SEC in the semifinals. Seven SEC teams made the Sweet 16 as well, including Kentucky, but we won’t talk about how that one ended for the Wildcats…

All four of the remaining SEC schools sit among the top six in KenPom’s rankings, too. When ranking the final eight teams, ESPN’s Myron Medcalf had every SEC school in his top five. The league doing this well in the postseason was no accident, folks.

Below is this weekend’s Elite 8 schedule and the spreads (via FanDuel). Two SEC teams are favored to make the Final Four.

Saturday

• 6:09 PM ET (TBS/truTV) | (3) Texas Tech vs. (1) Florida [-6.5]
• 8:49 PM ET (TBS/truTV) | (2) Alabama [+6.5] vs. (1) Duke

Sunday

• 2:20 PM ET (CBS) | (2) Tennessee [+3.5] vs. (1) Houston
• 5:05 PM ET (CBS) | (2) Michigan State vs. (1) Auburn [-5.5]