List of Southeastern Conference men's basketball champions

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	Kentucky LSU	No Tournament
1936	Kentucky	Tennessee
1937	Georgia Tech	Kentucky
1938	Kentucky	Georgia Tech
1939	Alabama	Kentucky [a]
1940	Alabama	Kentucky [b]
1941	Kentucky	Tennessee [c]
1942	Tennessee	Kentucky [d]		Kentucky 1942 Final Four
1943	Kentucky	Tennessee [e]
1944	Georgia Tech Tulane	Kentucky [f]
1945	Kentucky Tennessee	Kentucky [g]
1946	Kentucky LSU	Kentucky [h]
1947	Kentucky	Kentucky [i]
1948	Kentucky	Kentucky [j]		Kentucky 1948 NCAA Champions
1949	Kentucky	Kentucky [k]		Kentucky 1949 NCAA Champions
1950	Kentucky	Kentucky [l]
1951	Kentucky	Vanderbilt		Kentucky 1951 NCAA Champions
1952	Kentucky	Kentucky
1953	LSU	No Tournament		LSU 1953 Final Four
1954	Kentucky LSU [m]	No Tournament
1955	Kentucky	No Tournament
1956	Alabama [n]	No Tournament
1957	Kentucky	No Tournament
1958	Kentucky	No Tournament		Kentucky 1958 NCAA Champions
1959	Mississippi State [o]	No Tournament
1960	Auburn [p]	No Tournament
1961	Mississippi State [q]	No Tournament
1962	Kentucky [r] Mississippi State	No Tournament
1963	Mississippi State [s]	No Tournament
1964	Kentucky	No Tournament
1965	Vanderbilt	No Tournament	Clyde Lee, Vanderbilt
1966	Kentucky	No Tournament	Clyde Lee, Vanderbilt Pat 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	Kentucky [t] Tennessee	No Tournament	Mike Edwards, Tennessee Tom Parker, Kentucky
1973	Kentucky	No Tournament	Kevin Grevey, Kentucky Wendell Hudson, Alabama
1974	Alabama Vanderbilt [u]	No Tournament	Jan van Breda Kolff, Vanderbilt
1975	Alabama Kentucky	No Tournament	Kevin Grevey, Kentucky Bernard King, Tennessee	Kentucky 1975 NCAA Runner-Up
1976	Alabama	No Tournament	Bernard King, Tennessee
1977	Kentucky Tennessee	No Tournament	Ernie Grunfeld, Tennessee Bernard 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	Kentucky Tennessee	Alabama	Dale Ellis, Tennessee
1983	Kentucky	Georgia	Dale Ellis, Tennessee Jeff 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, Alabama Tony White, Tennessee
1988	Kentucky (stripped) [v]	Kentucky (stripped) [v]	Will Perdue, Vanderbilt
1989	Florida	Alabama	Chris Jackson, LSU
1990	Georgia	Alabama	Chris Jackson, LSU
1991	LSU Mississippi State [w]	Alabama	Shaquille O'Neal, LSU
1992	Arkansas	Kentucky	Shaquille O'Neal, LSU
1993	Vanderbilt	Kentucky	Billy McCaffrey, Vanderbilt Jamal Mashburn, Kentucky	Kentucky 1993 Final Four
1994	Arkansas	Kentucky	Corliss Williamson, Arkansas	Arkansas 1994 NCAA Champions Florida 1994 Final Four
1995	Kentucky	Kentucky	Corliss Williamson, Arkansas	Arkansas 1995 NCAA Runner-Up
1996	Kentucky	Mississippi State	Tony Delk, Kentucky	Kentucky 1996 NCAA Champions Mississippi 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	Florida Kentucky LSU Tennessee	Arkansas	Dan Langhi, Vanderbilt Stromile Swift, LSU	Florida 2000 NCAA Runner-Up
2001	Florida Kentucky	Kentucky	Tayshaun Prince, Kentucky
2002	Alabama	Mississippi State	Erwin Dudley, Alabama
2003	Kentucky	Kentucky	Keith Bogans, Kentucky Ron 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 Champions LSU 2006 Final Four
2007	Florida	Florida	Derrick Byars, Vanderbilt Chris 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-up Florida 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, Kentucky Sindarius Thornwell, South Carolina	South Carolina 2017 Final Four
2018	Auburn Tennessee	Kentucky	Yante Maten, Georgia Grant Williams, Tennessee
2019	LSU	Auburn	Grant Williams, Tennessee	Auburn 2019 Final Four
2020	Kentucky	Cancelled [x]	Mason Jones, Arkansas Reggie Perry, Mississippi State Immanuel Quickley, Kentucky
2021	Alabama	Alabama	Herb Jones, Alabama
2022	Auburn	Tennessee	Oscar Tshiebwe, Kentucky
2023	Alabama	Alabama	Brandon Miller, Alabama
2024	Tennessee	Auburn	Dalton Knecht, Tennessee	Alabama 2024 Final Four
2025	Auburn	Florida	Johni Broome, Auburn	Florida 2025 NCAA Champions Auburn 2025 Final Four

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).

Year	Eastern Division Champion(s)	Western Division Champion(s)
1992	Kentucky	Arkansas
1993	Vanderbilt	Arkansas
1994	Florida Kentucky	Arkansas
1995	Kentucky	Arkansas Mississippi State
1996	Kentucky	Mississippi State
1997	South Carolina	Ole Miss
1998	Kentucky	Ole Miss
1999	Tennessee	Auburn
2000	Florida Kentucky Tennessee	LSU
2001	Kentucky Florida	Ole Miss
2002	Georgia (vacated) [y] Kentucky Florida	Alabama
2003	Kentucky	Mississippi State
2004	Kentucky	Mississippi State
2005	Kentucky	Alabama LSU
2006	Tennessee	LSU
2007	Florida	Mississippi State Ole Miss
2008	Tennessee	Mississippi State
2009	Tennessee South Carolina	LSU
2010	Kentucky	Mississippi State Ole Miss
2011	Florida	Alabama

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	List
Kentucky	50 [v]	2020	1933, 1934, 1935 [z] , 1936, 1938, 1941, 1943, 1945 [z] , 1946 [z] , 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1954 [z] , 1955, 1957, 1958, 1962 [z] , 1964, 1966, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972 [z] , 1973, 1975 [z] , 1977 [z] , 1978, 1980, 1982 [z] , 1983, 1984, 1986, 1992, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000 [z] , 2001 [z] , 2003, 2005, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2016 [z] , 2017, 2020
LSU	12	2019	1935 [z] , 1946 [z] , 1953, 1954 [z] , 1979, 1981, 1985, 1991 [z] , 2000 [z] , 2006, 2009, 2019
Tennessee	11	2024	1942, 1943, 1945 [z] , 1967, 1972 [z] , 1977 [z] , 1982 [z] , 2000 [z] , 2008, 2018 [z] , 2024
Alabama	10	2023	1939, 1940, 1956, 1974 [z] , 1975 [z] , 1976, 1987, 2002, 2021, 2023
Florida	7	2014	1989, 2000 [z] , 2001 [z] , 2007, 2011, 2013, 2014
Mississippi State	6	2004	1959, 1961, 1962 [z] , 1963, 1991 [z] , 2004
Auburn	5	2025	1960, 1999, 2018 [z] , 2022, 2025
Vanderbilt	3	1993	1965, 1974 [z] , 1993
Arkansas [aa]	2	1994	1992, 1994
Georgia Tech [ab]	2	1944	1937, 1944 [z]
Texas A&M [ac]	1	2016	2016 [z]
South Carolina [ad]	1	1997	1997
Georgia	1	1990	1990
Tulane [ae]	1	1944	1944 [z]
Missouri [af]	0	—
Oklahoma [ag]	0	—
Ole Miss	0	—
Sewanee [ah]	0	—
Texas [ai]	0	—

Divisional championships by school

School	Division	Number	Last	List
Kentucky	Eastern	12	2010	1992, 1994 [z] , 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000 [z] , 2001 [z] , 2002 [z] , 2003, 2004, 2005, 2010
Mississippi State	Western	7	2010	1995 [z] , 1996, 2003, 2004, 2007 [z] , 2008, 2010 [z]
Florida	Eastern	6	2011	1994 [z] , 2000 [z] , 2001 [z] , 2002 [z] , 2007, 2011
Ole Miss	Western	5	2010	1997, 1998, 2001, 2007 [z] , 2010 [z]
Tennessee	Eastern	5	2008	1999, 2000 [z] , 2006, 2008, 2009 [z]
Arkansas	Western	4	1995	1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 [z]
LSU	Western	4	2009	2000, 2005 [z] , 2006, 2009
Alabama	Western	3	2011	2002, 2005 [z] , 2011
South Carolina	Eastern	2	2009	1997, 2009 [z]
Auburn	Western	1	1999	1999
Vanderbilt	Eastern	1	1993	1993
Georgia	Eastern	0 [y]	—

Tournament championships by school

No tournament was held in 1935 or from 1953 to 1978.

School	Number	Last	List
Kentucky	31 [v]	2018	1933, 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, 2018
Alabama	8	2023	1934, 1982, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 2021, 2023
Florida	5	2025	2005, 2006, 2007, 2014, 2025
Tennessee	5	2022	1936, 1941, 1943, 1979, 2022
Auburn	3	2024	1985, 2019, 2024
Mississippi State	3	2009	1996, 2002, 2009
Ole Miss	2	2013	1981, 2013
Vanderbilt	2	2012	1951, 2012
Georgia	2	2008	1983, 2008
Arkansas [aa]	1	2000	2000
LSU	1	1980	1980
Georgia Tech [ab]	1	1938	1938
Missouri [af]	0	—
Oklahoma [ag]	0	—
Sewanee [ah]	0	—
South Carolina [ad]	0	—
Texas [ai]	0	—
Texas A&M [ac]	0	—
Tulane [ae]	0	—

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	Years
Kentucky	18	1966 [aj] , 1972 [aj] , 1973 [aj] , 1975 [aj] , 1980, 1985, 1986, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2003 [aj] , 2010, 2012, 2016, 2017 [aj] , 2020 [ak] , 2022
Tennessee	14	1967, 1972 [aj] , 1975 [aj] , 1976, 1977 (×2) [aj] , 1982, 1983 [aj] , 1987 [aj] , 2003 [aj] , 2007 [aj] , 2018 [aj] , 2019, 2024
LSU	11	1968, 1969, 1970, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 2000 [aj] , 2005, 2006, 2009
Vanderbilt	8	1965, 1966†, 1974, 1988, 1993 [aj] , 2000 [aj] , 2007 [aj] , 2008
Alabama	7	1973 [aj] , 1978, 1979, 1987 [aj] , 2002, 2021, 2023
Arkansas [aa]	4	1994, 1995, 2015, 2020 [ak]
Auburn	3	1984, 1999, 2025
Mississippi State	3	1983 [aj] , 2004, 2020 [ak]
Georgia	3	1981, 2013, 2018 [aj]
Florida	2	2011, 2014
Ole Miss	2	1971, 1998
South Carolina [ad]	1	2017 [aj]
Missouri [af]	0
Oklahoma [ag]	0
Texas [ai]	0
Texas A&M [ac]	0
Tulane [ae]	0

Notes

1. Kentucky was not selected for the 1939 NCAA tournament.
2. Kentucky declined a bid to the 1940 NCAA tournament.
3. Tennessee was not selected for the 1941 NCAA tournament.
4. Kentucky was selected for the 1942 NCAA tournament.
5. Tennessee was not selected for the 1943 NCAA tournament.
6. Kentucky was not selected for the 1944 NCAA tournament.
7. Kentucky was selected for the 1945 NCAA tournament.
8. Kentucky was not selected for the 1946 NCAA tournament.
9. Kentucky was not selected for the 1947 NCAA tournament.
10. Kentucky was selected for the 1948 NCAA tournament.
11. Kentucky was selected for the 1949 NCAA tournament.
12. Kentucky was not selected for the 1950 NCAA tournament.
13. Kentucky beat LSU in a playoff game for the SEC's NCAA tournament bid, but declined the bid because the NCAA ruled three players ineligible for the tournament. As a result, LSU represented the SEC in the 1954 tournament.
14. Alabama declined the bid to the NCAA tournament after the NCAA deemed their starting lineup ineligible for having played as freshmen. Runner-up Kentucky represented the SEC in the 1956 tournament.
15. Mississippi State declined the NCAA bid due to their segregationist policy against playing teams with black players. Runner-up Kentucky represented the SEC in the 1959 tournament.
16. Auburn declined the NCAA bid due to their segregationist policy against playing teams with black players. Runner-up Georgia Tech represented the SEC in the 1960 tournament.
17. Mississippi State declined the NCAA bid due to their segregationist policy against playing teams with black players. Runner-up Kentucky represented the SEC in the 1961 tournament.
18. Mississippi State declined the NCAA bid due to their segregationist policy against playing teams with black players. Co-champion Kentucky represented the SEC in the 1962 tournament.
19. See Game of Change.
20. As a result of Kentucky beating Tennessee in both regular-season matchups, Kentucky represented the SEC in the 1972 tournament.
21. Vanderbilt received the SEC's bid to the 1974 NCAA tournament because they were ranked higher than co-champion Alabama.
22. The presidents of the Southeastern Conference voted to strip Kentucky of their 1988 regular season and conference tournament championships due to NCAA violations. Note that these games were not vacated by the NCAA; only Kentucky's 1988 NCAA Tournament games were vacated.
23. Kentucky had the best conference record at 14–4, one game ahead of the co-champions, but they were not eligible for the championship due to NCAA sanctions.
24. The tournament was cancelled before the start of the second day due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Kentucky, the regular season champions, was awarded the SEC's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, but that was subsequently cancelled as well. Two first round games were completed on the first day.
25. Georgia later vacated their 2002 Eastern Division Co-Championship
26. Co-champions
27. Arkansas joined the SEC in the 1992–93 season.
28. Georgia Tech was a member of the SEC from 1932 to 1964.
29. Texas A&M joined the SEC in the 2012–13 season.
30. South Carolina joined the SEC in the 1992–93 season.
31. Tulane was a member of the SEC from 1932 to 1966.
32. Missouri joined the SEC in the 2012–13 season.
33. Oklahoma joined the SEC in the 2024–25 season.
34. Sewanee was a member of the SEC from 1932 to 1940.
35. Texas joined the SEC in the 2024–25 season.
36. Co-player of the year with one other person.
37. Co-player of the year with two other people.