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. The winner, the

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, received the conference's automatic bid to the 2022 NCAA tournament.

Seeds

All 14 SEC teams participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. The top 10 teams received a first round bye and the top four teams received a double bye, automatically advancing them into the quarterfinals.

Schedule

Bracket

* – Denotes overtime period

Game summaries

First round

Second round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

References

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