The 2021–22 Southeastern Conference men's basketball season began with practices in October 2021, followed by the start of the

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on November 9. Conference play started in late December and will end in March, after which 14 member teams will participate in the 2022 SEC men's basketball tournament at

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. The tournament champion is guaranteed a selection to the 2022 NCAA tournament.

Offseason

The season was initially slated to begin on November 10, 2020, but was postponed due to the

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, which prematurely ended the previous season and continues to affect the current one.

Preseason

Recruiting classes

Preseason watchlists

Below is a table of notable preseason watch lists.

Preseason All-American teams

Preseason polls

SEC Media Day selections

Preseason All-SEC teams

;Honorable Mention

Midseason watchlists

Below is a table of notable midseason watch lists.

Final watchlists

Below is a table of notable year end watch lists.

Regular season

Early season tournaments

Records against other conferences

2021–22 records against non-conference foes as of (November 9, 2021): Regular season Postseason

Big 12/SEC Challenge

Record against ranked non-conference opponents

This is a list of games against ranked opponents only (rankings from the AP Poll): ''Team rankings are reflective of AP poll when the game was played, not current or final ranking'' ''† denotes game was played on neutral site''

Conference matrix

This table summarizes the head-to-head results between teams in conference play.

Points scored

''Through March 18, 2021''

Rankings

Head coaches

''Note:'' Stats shown are before the beginning of the season. Overall and SEC records are from time at current school.

Postseason

SEC tournament

* March, 2022 at the

. Teams will be seeded by conference record, with ties broken by record between the tied teams followed by record against the regular-season champion, if necessary.

NCAA tournament

Teams from the conference were selected to participate:

National Invitation tournament

Number from the conference were selected to participate:

Honors and awards

Players of the Week

Totals per School

All-SEC Awards

Coaches

Players

;Honorable Mention

AP

;Honorable Mention

All-District

The

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(USBWA) named the following from the Pac-12 to their All-District Teams: ;District VIII All-District Team ;District IX Player of the Year All-District Team

All-American

National awards

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Home game attendance

Bold – At or exceed capacity
†Season high

References

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