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February 26, 2002 | Men's Basketball
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Feb. 26, 2002
The 2002 Southeastern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament will be hosted at the Georgia Dome for the fifth time since 1995 and in Atlanta for the eighth time in the league's tournament history.
The Georgia Dome is the largest cable-supported dome stadium in the world. The Georgia Dome has also been host to the last eight SEC Football Championship Games and will host this year's NCAA Men's Final Four.
The winner of the 11-game tournament receives the SEC's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. The tournament seeds, conference championship and division titles are determined by the 16-game conference schedule during the regular season. Teams are seeded by their divisional finish and features Eastern Division-Western Division matchups in every game should the higher seed win each contest.
Atlanta served as host of the inaugural SEC Tournament played following the 1932-33 season and did so again after the 1933-34 season. The event was held every year through 1952, with the exception of 1935. After a 26-year layoff (1953-78), the tournament was renewed in 1979.
The 2002 tournament will be the 42nd in league history and the 24th since the renewal. The event has helped set the stage for SEC teams in the NCAA Tournament, as 17 of the last 21 tournament champions have advanced to at least the Sweet 16 with four of the last 10 reaching the Final Four.
Since the renewal in 1979, the SEC Tournament Champion has failed to win at least one NCAA Tournament game only three times.
Kentucky leads the league with 23 SEC Tournament titles. Alabama is second with six, while Tennessee ranks third with four championship trophies.
SEC TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE
FIRST ROUND
March 7 (Thursday)
Game 1 - LSU 69, Vanderbilt 62
Game 2 - Tennessee 68, Arkansas 61
Game 3 - Florida 81, Auburn 63
Game 4 - South Carolina 69, Ole Miss 67
SECOND ROUND
March 8 (Friday)
Game 5 - LSU vs. [E1] Georgia [JP] 1:00 p.m.
Game 6 - Tennessee vs. [W1] Alabama [JP] 3:15 p.m.
Game 7 - Florida vs. [W2] Mississippi State [JP] 7:30 p.m.
Game 8 - South Carolina vs. [E2] Kentucky [JP] 9:45 p.m.
SEMIFINALS
March 9 (Saturday)
Game 9 - Game 5 Winner vs. Game 7 Winner [JP] 1:00 p.m.
Game 10 - Game 6 Winner vs. Game 8 Winner [JP] 3:15 p.m.
FINALS
March 10 (Sunday) Game 11 - Game 9 Winner vs. Game 10 Winner [CBS] 1 p.m.
