What Seed Will Mizzou Have in the SEC Tournament? Live Updates

After Missouri's loss in overtime to No. 20 Arkansas, the Tigers are no longer in contention for one of the top four seeds in the SEC Tournament. The range of possibilities for the Tigers is wide and dependent on what happens across the conference for the rest of the day.

With a few wins from other teams, the Tigers are still right in the race to earn a top-eight seed in order to earn a first-round bye in the tournament.

In the SEC Tournament, Missouri will have the chance to boost its seeding for the NCAA Tournament if it can capture more of the upsets it managed to during the regular season. Those upsets have put Missouri in good position to benefit from head-to-head tiebreakers when it comes to SEC standings, with the Tigers having wins over three teams that they could potentially be tied with in conference record.

But, two of the other teams that Missouri could end up being tied with have wins over the Tigers.

Follow this post throughout the afternoon to keep up with results across the conference and how they could impact Missouri's SEC seeding.

Update: Missouri clinches eighth seed, first-round bye

With Oklahoma taking down Texas, Missouri will be the eighth seed in the conference tournament. The Tigers will play the winner of No. 9 Kentucky vs. No. 16 LSU in Round 2. Missouri will play that game at 11:30 a.m. Thursday on the SEC Network.

If Missouri wins that game, they'll advance to play No.1 Florida.

Full bracket:

Round 1, Wednesday
Game 1: No. 9 Kentucky vs. LSU
Game 2: No. 12 Auburn vs. No. 13 Mississippi State
Game: 3 No. 10 Texas vs. No. 15 Ole Miss
Game 4: No. 11 Oklahoma vs. No. 14 South Carolina

Round 2, Thursday
Game 5: No. 8 Missouri vs. winner of Game 1
Game 6: No. 5 Tennessee vs. winner of Game 2
Game 7: No. 7 Georgia vs. winner of Game 3
Game 8: No. 6 Texas A&M vs. winner of Game 4

Round 3, Friday
Game 9: No. 1 Florida vs. winner of Game 5
Game 10: No. 4 Vanderbilt vs. winner of Game 6
Game 11: No. 2 Alabama vs. winner of Game 7
Game 12: No. 3 Arkansas vs. winner of Game 8

Semifinals, Saturday
Game 13: winner of Game 9 vs. winner of Game 10
Game 14: winner of Game 11 vs. winner of Game 12

Championship, Sunday
Winner of Game 13 vs. winner of Game 14, noon on ESPN

SEC Results
South Carolina won 64-61 at Ole Miss
No. 24 Vanderbilt won 86-82 at No. 23 Tennessee
Georgia won 102-96 over Mississippi State
No. 5 Florida won 84-77 at Kentucky
Texas A&M won 94-91 at LSU
Oklahoma won 88-85 at Texas
Alabama won 96-84 vs. Auburn

SEC Tournament Picture

Missouri Head-to-Head wins:
Florida
Tennessee
Vanderbilt
Texas A&M
Kentucky
Auburn
Oklahoma (1-1)
Mississippi State (2-0)
South Carolina

Missouri Head-to-Head losses:
Alabama
Arkansas
Georgia
Texas
Oklahoma (1-1)
Ole Miss
LSU

Saturday SEC Updates

9 p.m. - Missouri's chances at bye come down to the Red River

Missouri's seeding will be determined by Oklahoma and Texas. Oklahoma leads 51-49 with 13:56 remaining.

If Texas wins, Missouri will be the ninth seed and start play Wednesday against LSU. If Oklahoma wins, Missouri will have the eighth seed and play the winner of Kentucky-LSU in Round 2.

Ironically, having Texas win and Missouri getting the ninth seed would probably be the better scenario so that Missouri could avoid having to play Kentucky in Round 2.

5:30 p.m. - Kentucky falls

Florida holds on to beat Kentucky, so Missouri will have, at worst, the ninth seed. A loss for either Texas or Texas A&M would give the Tigers a bye.

4:30 p.m. - Georgia wins, Kentucky trailing

Georgia's victory bumps down Missouri's ceiling one more spot to No. 7. The good news for the Tigers is that Florida is leading Kentucky 66-48 with 9:48 remaining. A Kentucky loss would bump up Missouri's floor to the ninth seed.

3:30 p.m. - Vanderbilt wins over Tennessee

Missouri is now out of contention to earn the fifth seed.

3 p.m. - Vanderbilt leads Tennessee 55-44 with 11:42 remaining

Had Missouri beat Arkansas, the Tigers would've wanted a Vanderbilt win in this game. But with Missouri's loss, the Tigers are instead competing with the Commodores for positioning. Missouri will hope the Volunteers can pull off a comeback.

Conference Standings - 10 p.m.

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