Vols, ‘Cats are +200 co-favorites to win SEC Tournament

Published on Tuesday, 3/12/19, at 12:31 a.m. Eastern.

The 2019 men’s SEC Basketball Tournament will get started Wednesday at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. Sportsbook.ag released its odds to win the event on Monday, making Tennessee and Kentucky the +200 co-favorites (risk $100 to win $200).

Remember, the top seed and regular-season champion, LSU, is going to be without head coach Will Wade and might be missing freshman Ja’Vonte Smart, who had scored 29, 17, 19 and 15 points in his four previous games until being held out of Saturday’s home win over Vanderbilt.

Wade is immersed in scandal stemming from last week’s Yahoo report that used quotes from Wade that allegedly came from a federal wiretap of Christian Dawkins’s phone. In the report, Wade is discussing payments to players and ‘The Smart Thing’ appears to be referencing Ja’Vonte.

Wade and Arizona coach Sean Miller have been subpoenaed to testify at Dawkins’s trail in April.

Here are the odds from Sportsbook.ag with the pairings below:

Tennessee +200
Kentucky +200
LSU +400
Auburn +450
Mississippi St. 12/1
Florida 15/1
Ole Miss 40/1
South Carolina 50/1
Alabama 60/1
Arkansas 60/1
Georgia 80/1
Missouri 80/1
Texas A&M 80/1
Vanderbilt 80/1

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13

Game 1: 7 p.m. — No. 12 Missouri (5-13) vs. No. 13 Georgia (2-16) on SEC Network

Game 2: 9:20 p.m. — No. 11 Texas A&M (6-12) vs. No. 14 Vanderbilt (0-18) on SEC Network

THURSDAY, MARCH 14

Game 3: 1 p.m. — No. 8 Florida (9-9) vs. No. 9 Arkansas (8-10) on SEC Network

Game 4: 3:20 p.m. — No. 5 Auburn (11-7) vs. Game 1 winner on SEC Network

Game 5: 7 p.m. — No. 7 Ole Miss (10-8) vs. No 10 Alabama (8-10) on SEC Network

Game 6: 9:20 p.m. — No. 6 Mississippi State vs. Game 2 winner on SEC Network

FRIDAY, MARCH 15

Game 7: 1 p.m. — No. 1 LSU (16-2) vs. Game 3 winner on ESPN

Game 8: 3:20 p.m. — No. 4 South Carolina (11-7) vs. Game 4 winner on ESPN

Game 9: 7 p.m. — No. 2 Kentucky (15-3) vs. Game 5 winner on SEC Network

Game 10: 9 p.m. — No. 3 Tennessee (15-3) vs. Game 6 winner on SEC Network

SATURDAY, MARCH 16

Game 11: 1 p.m. — Game 7 winner vs. Game 8 winner on ESPN

Game 12: 3:20 p.m. — Game 9 winner vs. Game 10 winner on ESPN

SUNDAY, MARCH 17

Game 13: Game 11 winner vs. Game 12 winner on ESPN