Southeastern Conference

As the NCAA Tournament heats up, the styles of Notre Dame's Niele Ivey, LSU’s Kim Mulkey, Alabama’s Nate Oaks, South Carolina’s Dawn Staley and a handful of other coaches stand out in a sea of coaches in team polo shirts and quarter-zip pullovers. Most coaches moved to casual sideline attire during the COVID-19 pandemic and many simply never went back to dressing up for games.

Auburn has brushed off a late-season lull that had some questioning whether the Tigers deserved their top billing as the overall No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Now, Auburn is in its first Sweet 16 since 2019 looking to top that Final Four run with its first national championship.

The Alabama women's basketball team's season is at an end, as the fifth-seeded Crimson Tide fell in double overtime at No. 4 seed Maryland, 111-108. This, Monday night, in the second round of the 2025 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament.

The No. 21 Alabama Crimson Tide play in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament against the Green Bay Phoenix . Saturday's matchup is the first of the season for the squads. Alabama is 10-7 against the SEC, and Green Bay is 22-1 against the Horizon.

Miles Kelly made seven 3-pointers and scored 23 points, All-American Johni Broome added 14 points and 11 rebounds, and No. 1 seed Auburn beat 16th-seeded Alabama State 83-63 on Thursday in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

The No. 4 Auburn Tigers and Alabama State Hornets play in the NCAA Tournament first round. The teams play Thursday for the first time this season. Auburn is 16-4 against the SEC, and Alabama State is 15-6 against the SWAC.

No. 7 Alabama takes on the No. 1 Auburn Tigers after Mark Sears scored 30 points in the Crimson Tide's 99-94 loss to the Florida Gators. Saturday's game is the second meeting of the season between the two teams. The Tigers won the last matchup 94-85. Auburn is 15-2 against the SEC, and Alabama is 12-5 against conference opponents.

The No. 7 Alabama men's basketball team is recovering after a 99-94 loss to No. 5 Florida during its final home game of the season. The Crimson Tide fell to 23-7 on the season and 12-5 in SEC play on Wednesday. UA now looks to its rematch with No. 1 Auburn over the weekend.

11th-seeded Florida is leading past 14th-seeded Auburn 60-50 after the first day of the SEC Tournament. The Gators' win ends the Tigers' season, and Florida now advances to a second-round matchup against sixth-seeded Alabama.

The college basketball season has wound down toward the end, with some conference tournaments already starting. The major conferences still have a week left in the regular season and that means rivalry games — and some big ones. This includes the rematch between top-ranked Auburn and No. 7 Alabama.