2019–20 Southeastern Conference women's basketball season

2019–20 SEC Women's Basketball Season
2019–20 SEC Women's Basketball Season
League	NCAA Division I
Sport	Basketball
Number of teams	14
WNBA Draft
Top draft pick	Mikiah Herbert Harrigan
Picked by	Minnesota Lynx
Regular Season
2020 SEC Champions	South Carolina
Tournament
Champions	South Carolina
Runners-up	Mississippi State
Finals MVP	Mikiah Herbert Harrigan (South Carolina)
Basketball seasons
	← 2018–19 2020–21 →

2019–20 SEC women's basketball standings
v t e	Conf.				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
No. 1 South Carolina †	16	–	0	1.000	32	–	1	.970
No. 9 Mississippi State	13	–	3	.813	27	–	6	.818
No. 24 Arkansas	10	–	6	.625	24	–	8	.750
No. 16 Kentucky	10	–	6	.625	22	–	8	.733
No. 19 Texas A&M	10	–	6	.625	22	–	8	.733
Tennessee	10	–	6	.625	21	–	10	.677
LSU	9	–	7	.563	20	–	10	.667
Alabama	8	–	8	.500	18	–	12	.600
Georgia	7	–	9	.438	17	–	14	.548
Florida	6	–	10	.375	15	–	15	.500
Missouri	5	–	11	.313	9	–	22	.290
Vanderbilt	4	–	12	.250	14	–	16	.467
Auburn	4	–	12	.250	11	–	18	.379
Ole Miss	0	–	16	.000	7	–	23	.233

† 2020 SEC tournament winner As of February 8, 2025 Rankings from AP poll

The 2019–20 SEC women's basketball season began with practices in October 2019, followed by the start of the 2019–20 NCAA Division I women's basketball season in November. Conference play started in early January 2020 and concluded in February, to be followed by the 2020 SEC women's basketball tournament at the Bon Secours Wellness Arena in Greenville, South Carolina, in March.^[1]

Pre-season

Pre-season team predictions

	Media^[2]	Coaches^[3]
1.	South Carolina	Texas A&M
2.	Texas A&M	South Carolina
3.	Mississippi State
4.	Kentucky
5.	Arkansas
6.	Tennessee	LSU
7.	Auburn	Tennessee
8.	LSU	Auburn
9.	Missouri
10.	Georgia
11.	Alabama
12.	Florida	Vanderbilt
13.	Ole Miss
14.	Vanderbilt	Florida

Pre-season All-SEC teams

Media^[2]	Coaches^[3]
Chennedy Carter Texas A&M	Carter
Chelsea Dungee Arkansas	Dungee
Rhyne Howard Kentucky	Howard
Ayana Mitchell LSU	Mitchell
Tyasha Harris South Carolina	Harris
	Jordan Danberry Mississippi State
	Amber Smith Missouri
	Rennia Davis Tennessee

Coaches select eight players
Player in bold is choice for SEC Player of the Year

Head coaches

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

Team	Head coach	Previous job	Seasons at school	Overall record	SEC record	NCAA Tournaments	NCAA Final Fours	NCAA Championships
Alabama	Kristy Curry	Texas Tech	7th	98–96	76–85	9	1	0
Arkansas	Mike Neighbors	Washington	3rd	25–33	9–23	3	1	0
Auburn	Terri Williams-Flournoy	Georgetown	8th	124–101	44–70	5	0	0
Florida	Cameron Newbauer	Belmont	3rd	19–42	6–26	2	0	0
Georgia	Joni Taylor	Georgia (asst.)	5th	81–44	37–27	2	0	0
Kentucky	Matthew Mitchell	Morehead State	13th	281–125	119–69	9	0	0
LSU	Nikki Fargas	UCLA	9th	148–106	66–60	8	0	0
Mississippi State	Vic Schaefer	Texas A&M (assoc. HC)	8th	194–56	76–36	5	2	0
Missouri	Robin Pingeton	Illinois State	10th	171–119	57–51	6	0	0
Ole Miss	Yolett McPhee-McCuin	Jacksonville	2nd	9–22	3–13	0	0	0
South Carolina	Dawn Staley	Temple	12th	273–97	122–52	14	2	1
Tennessee	Kellie Harper	Missouri State	1st	0-0	0-0	0	0	0
Texas A&M	Gary Blair	Arkansas	17th	784–322	74–36	24	2	1
Vanderbilt	Stephanie White	Indiana Fever	4th	28–63	13–50	0	0	0

Weekly rankings

**Legend:** ██ Increase in ranking. ██ Decrease in ranking. ██ Not ranked the previous week. RV=Received votes. NR=No rank/vote.
		Pre	Wk 2	Wk 3	Wk 4	Wk 5	Wk 6	Wk 7	Wk 8	Wk 9	Wk 10	Wk 11
Alabama	AP
Alabama	C
Arkansas	AP	22	23	20	25	23	21	21	20	20	21	23
Arkansas	C	22	18	24	23	20	20	20	20	21	23
Auburn	AP	RV	NR
Auburn	C
Florida	AP
Florida	C
Georgia	AP
Georgia	C
Kentucky	AP	13	13	14	15	14	15	14	13	13	14	11
Kentucky	C	16	14	14	14	11	13	13	13	14	11
LSU	AP	RV	NR			25	NR
LSU	C	NR	NR	RV
Mississippi State	AP	10	10	10	10	10	15	15	15	15	13	10
Mississippi State	C	8	8	8	8	14	15	14	14	12	9
Missouri	AP
Missouri	C	RV	NR
Ole Miss	AP
Ole Miss	C
South Carolina	AP	8	6	5	5	6	5	5	4	4	4	1
South Carolina	C	10	6	6	7	6	6	5	5	5	2
Tennessee	AP	RV	RV	23T	20	17	23	23	22	22	23	24
Tennessee	C	RV	RV	25	19	24	24	24	23	24	25
Texas A&M	AP	6	5	6	6	12	11	11	11	11	10	12
Texas A&M	C	7	7	7	13	13	12	12	12	10	12
Vanderbilt	AP
Vanderbilt	C

Conference matrix

Total	1–3	2–2	0–4	2–2	1–3	3–1	3–1	3–0	1–3	0–4	4–0	3–1	2–1	2–2
	Alabama	Arkansas	Auburn	Florida	Georgia	Kentucky	LSU	Miss. State	Missouri	Ole Miss	S. Carolina	Tennessee	Texas A&M	Vanderbilt
vs. Alabama	–	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. Arkansas	0–0	–	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–1	1–0	0–0
vs. Auburn	1–0	1–0	–	1–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–0
vs. Florida	0–0	0–0	0–1	–	0–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–1
vs. Georgia	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–0
vs. Kentucky	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	0–1	0–1	0–0
vs. LSU	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	1–0	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. Miss. State	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–1	0–0	0–0	–	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. Missouri	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	1–0	–	0–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–0
vs. Ole Miss	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	0-0	–	0–0	1–0	1–0	0–0
vs. South Carolina	0–1	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–1
vs. Tennessee	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	1–0	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–1	0–0	–	0–0	0–0
vs. Texas A&M	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	0-0	0–1	0–0	0–0	–	0–0
vs. Vanderbilt	0–0	0–0	0–1	1–0	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–0	0–0	0–0	–

Postseason

SEC tournament

March 4–8 at the Bon Secours Wellness Arena in Greenville, South Carolina. Teams are seeded by conference record, with ties broken by record between the tied teams followed by record against the regular-season champion.

Seed	School	Conf.	Over.	Tiebreaker	First Round March 4	Second Round March 5	Quarterfinals March 6	Semifinals March 7	Championship March 8
2020 SEC women's basketball tournament seeds and results
1	‡†South Carolina	16–0	32–1		Bye	Bye	vs. #9 Georgia W, 89–56	vs. #5 Arkansas W, 90–64	vs. #2 Mississippi State W, 76–62
2	†Mississippi State	13–3	27–6		Bye	Bye	vs. #7 LSU W, 79–49	vs. #3 Kentucky W, 77–59	vs. #1 South Carolina L, 62–76
3	†Kentucky	10–6	22–7	1–0 vs. TAMU, 1–0 vs. TENN, 0–1 vs. ARK	Bye	Bye	vs. #6 Tennessee W, 86–65	vs. #2 Mississippi State L, 59–77
4	†Texas A&M	10–6	22–8	1–0 vs. TENN, 1–0 vs. ARK, 0–1 vs. UK	Bye	Bye	vs. #5 Arkansas L, 66–67
5	#Arkansas	10–6	24–8	1–0 vs. TENN, 1–0 vs. UK, 0–1 vs. TAMU	Bye	vs. #13 Auburn W, 90–66	vs. #4 Texas A&M W, 67–66	vs. #1 South Carolina L, 64–90
6	#Tennessee	10–6	21–10	0–1 vs. UK, 0–1 vs. TAMU, 0–1 vs. ARK	Bye	vs. #11 Missouri W, 64–51	vs. #3 Kentucky L, 65–86
7	#LSU	9–7	20–10		Bye	vs. #10 Florida W, 73–59	vs. #2 Mississippi State L, 49–79
8	#Alabama	8–8	18–12		Bye	vs. #9 Georgia L, 61–68
9	#Georgia	7–9	17–14		Bye	vs. #8 Alabama W, 68–61	vs. #1 South Carolina L, 56–89
10	#Florida	7–10	15–15		Bye	vs. #7 LSU L, 59–73
11	Missouri	5–11	9–22		vs. #14 Ole Miss W, 64–53	vs. #6 Tennessee L, 51–64
12	Vanderbilt	4–12	14–16		vs. #13 Auburn L, 67–77
13	Auburn	4–12	11–18		vs. #12 Vanderbilt W, 77–67	vs. #5 Arkansas L, 66–90
14	Ole Miss	0–16	7–23		vs. #11 Missouri L, 53–64
‡ – SEC regular season champions, and tournament No. 1 seed. † – Received a double-Bye in the conference tournament. # – Received a single-Bye in the conference tournament. Overall records include all games played in the tournament.

References

^ "SEC announces 2020 Women's Basketball schedule" (Press release). Southeastern Conference. September 4, 2019. Retrieved November 1, 2019.
^ ^a ^b "South Carolina tabbed as 2020 SEC women's hoops champs" (Press release). Southeastern Conference. October 15, 2019. Retrieved November 1, 2019.
^ ^a ^b "Coaches tab Aggies as 2018 SEC women's basketball champs" (Press release). Southeastern Conference. October 18, 2019. Retrieved November 1, 2019.

[1] "SEC announces 2020 Women's Basketball schedule" (Press release). Southeastern Conference. September 4, 2019. Retrieved November 1, 2019.

[Preseason_media-2] "South Carolina tabbed as 2020 SEC women's hoops champs" (Press release). Southeastern Conference. October 15, 2019. Retrieved November 1, 2019.

[Preseason_coaches-3] "Coaches tab Aggies as 2018 SEC women's basketball champs" (Press release). Southeastern Conference. October 18, 2019. Retrieved November 1, 2019.

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