SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE 1-22 2013-14 YEAR IN REVIEW 52-64 TOURNAMENTS & RANKINGS 127-156 A Legacy of Champions..................2-3 Standings / SEC & Postseason SEC Tournament Champions and Standings. 128 The Standard of Excellence ................4-6 Tournament Results................... 54 SEC Tournament Records Breakdown ........ 129 SECU: The Academic Initiative of the SEC....... 7 2014 Team Notes .....................55-56 SEC Tournament Individual and Team Records . 130 The SEC Network...................... .8-9 Miscellaneous Statistics ................... 57 SEC Tournament Single-Game Superlatives . 131 SEC Milestones .......................10-11 NCAAStatistics.........................58 SEC Tournament Results ..............132-135 SECStaff............................. 12 SECStatistical Leaders (All Games)........59-61 SEC Tournament Attendance Records ........ 136 Commissioner Mike Slive.................. 13 SECStatistical Leaders (SEC Games).......62-64 SEC Tournament Annual Attendance .....137-138 SEC Media Services...................... 14 SEC All-Tournament Teams............139-140 SEC Corporate Sponsors/Licensing Program . 16 THROUGH THE YEARS 65-84 SEC Tournament Leading Scorers / MVPs ..... 141 Composite Schedule...................16-19 National Champions / SEC Champions....... 66 SEC Tournament Seedings................ 141 SECTournament......................20-21 All-Time SEC Standings / All-Time Records . 67 SECLegends......................... 142 NCAATournament...................... 22 Annual Standings .....................68-75 SEC Community Service Teams ............ 143 National Statistical Champions ............. 76 SEC in the NCAA Tournament ............. 144 THE TEAMS 23-51 Annual SEC Team Statistical Leaders .......77-80 NCAA Tournament Appearances........... 144 Alabama ...........................24-25 Annual SEC Individual Statistical Leaders . 81-83 NCAA Tournament Team Records .......... 144 Arkansas ...........................26-27 National Attendance Figures ............... 84 NCAA Tournament Year-By-Year Totals....... 145 Auburn.............................28-29 NCAA Tournament Results.............146-150 Florida.............................30-31 RECORD BOOK 85-106 NCAAFinal Four Teams................. 151 Georgia............................32-33 SEC Individual Records .................86-95 SEC in the National Invitation Tournament .... 152 Kentucky............................34-35 SEC Team Records ...................96-104 NIT Appearances / Year-By-Year Totals ....... 152 LSU ...............................36-37 SEC Team Defensive Records...........105-106 NIT Results........................153-154 Ole Miss............................38-39 SEC In NIT Season Tipoff.................155 HONORS 107-126 Mississippi State ......................40-41 Final AP & UPI Poll Appearances........... 156 Missouri ............................42-43 National / SEC Players of the Year.......... 108 South Carolina.......................44-45 Hall of Fame ......................... 109 COACHES 157-164 Tennessee...........................46-47 Academic All-Americans ................. 109 Winningest SEC Coaches (By Percentage)..... 158 Texas A&M..........................48-49 SEC Academic/Community Service Honors.... 109 Winningest SEC Coaches (By Victories).......159 Vanderbilt...........................50-51 SEC All-Americans ..................110-111 Coaching Honors...................160-161 All-SEC Teams .....................112-119 SEC Championship Coaches...........162-163 SEC All-Freshman Teams................. 120 SEC Coaches in the NCAA Tournament ...... 164 SEC Freshmen/Rookies of the Week......... 121 SEC Players of the Week ..............122-123 All-Time SEC Team / 25-Year All-SEC Team . 124 SEC Players In The NBA Draft ..........125-126 CREDITS The 2014-15 Southeastern Conference Men’s Basketball Media Guide is published by the Southeastern Conference Office, Michael L. 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SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE • SEC • SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE • SEC 1 SEC BASKETBALL “LEGACY“LEGACY OOFF CCHAMPIONS”HAMPIONS” hroughout the history of men’s col- • The SEC won 80 percent (12-3) of its the Final Four while Florida made its fifth lege basketball, the Southeastern NCAA Tournament games, the best per- appearance. Conference has captured 11 NCAA centage of any conference. • Kentucky’s John Calipari is 43-14 (.754) Championships and four NIT titles, T • Kentucky made its second appearance in and Florida’s Billy Donovan is 35-12 putting the SEC as one of the nation’s top basketball conferences. the NCAA championship game in three (.745) in NCAA Tournament games. During the 2006-07 academic year the years (2012) and 12th overall. • This is the first time since 2006 (Florida Southeastern Conference became the first • The SEC has won three of the last nine and LSU) that the SEC has had two teams conference to win the Division I National NCAA titles (2006-Florida, 2007-Florida, in the Final Four. It is the fourth time that Championship in Football (Florida), Men’s 2012 Kentucky). No other conference has two SEC teams advanced to the Final Basketball (Florida) and Women’s Basketball (Tennessee) in the same school year. won more than two NCAA titles during Four (1994, 1996, 2006). Only the SEC and the Big East have ever that stretch. • Florida, Kentucky and Tennessee won both the men’s and women’s basketball • Since 1993, the SEC has won six men’s advanced to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA titles in one season. SEC won both three times basketball national championships – Tournament. It is the most SEC teams in 1996, 1998 and 2007. The Big East has Arkansas (1994), Kentucky (1996), in the Sweet 16 since 2007 when three won both twice in 2003 and 2004. Kentucky (1998), Florida (2006), Florida teams (UF, UT, VU) advanced to the The SEC swept both the NIT and NCAA Tournaments in 2006 when Florida (2007) and Kentucky (2012). Only the Regional Semifinals. It is the sixth time won its first NCAA championship and South ACC (6) has won as many men’s basket- in the last nine years that multiple SEC Carolina earned its second straight NIT title. ball titles during this time. teams have reached the Sweet 16. Only four conferences have won both the NIT • The SEC has won 11 NCAA men’s bas- • Every SEC team making a postseason and NCAA title, including the Big East (2003), ketball tournament titles with Kentucky appearance in 2014 won at least one ACC (1992) and Big Ten (1979). claiming eight (1948, 1949, 1951, 1958, game. • The SEC was 12-3 (.800) in the NCAA 1978, 1996, 1998 and 2012). Florida Tournament and 17-8 (.680) overall in • The SEC has had at least one team has two (2006, 2007) and Arkansas has postseason action. advance to the Sweet 16 in 24 of the one (1994). last 25 years. Eleven of the SEC’s 12 • The SEC’s 12 NCAA Tournament wins • Florida and Kentucky advanced to the members have advanced to the Sweet 16 were the most of any conference (Big Ten Final Four and Tennessee made it to the since 1996. 10, American 9). Sweet 16. Kentucky made its 16th trip to Kentucky won its eighth NCAA Championship in 2012 with a 67-59 win over Kansas. 2 SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE • SEC • SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE • SEC • Three active SEC coaches are the all-time winningest coach at their institution - UF’s Billy Donovan, UM’s Andy Kennedy and VU’s Kevin Stallings. • Every team in the SEC has made at least one NCAA Tournament appear- ance in the last 11 editions of the NCAA Tournament. • The SEC has won at least 65 percent of its non-conference games since the league expanded to 12 teams in 1991- 92. • Over the last seven NBA Drafts, 48 SEC players have heard their names called. Twenty-two of those were select- ed in the first round and two were the No. 1 overall pick. • Kentucky is the all-time NCAA leader in wins with 2,111 and the Wildcats’ 111 NCAA Tournament victories are the most in tournament history. UK’s 52 NCAA Tournament appearances are the most in the nation. • The SEC is 53-27 (66.3 percent) in the second (formerly the first) round of the NCAA Tournament over the last 16 tour- naments (since 1999). In 1999 the SEC won each of its six first round games, becoming the first conference to have six teams win their first round games in the Florida won back-to-back NCAA titles in 2006 and 2007 same season. SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE • SEC • SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE • SEC 3 THE SOUTHEASTERN CONFERENCE “THE“THE STANDARDSTANDARD OOFF EEXCELLENCE”XCELLENCE” he Southeastern Conference, with Director’s Cup rankings. Florida led the Mississippi State South Regional - 7th its storied 81-year history of athletic league with a second-place finish. Texas Tennessee South Regional - 9th achievements and academic excel- A&M placed 10th while Kentucky was 11th; Auburn South Regional - 10th Georgia finished 16th, Alabama 17th, LSU South Carolina Southeast Reg.