After the regular season ended in a tie between No. 1 Texas and No. 6 South Carolina for the SEC women’s basketball champion, South Carolina will have the No. 1 overall seed in the SEC Tournament after winning the coin toss.
SEC commissioner Greg Sankey performed the coin toss — with a custom-made coin that features the logos for both schools — during halftime of the LSU-Ole Miss game Sunday.
The three tiebreaker scenarios to determine the SEC’s No. 1 seed are:
- Head-to-head results (Texas and South Carolina split, 1-1)
- Results of the two teams against the highest seed (both teams went undefeated against the rest of the conference)
- Coin toss
Both teams ended the regular season at 15-1 in the SEC, with their sole losses coming to one another. Texas lost to South Carolina in the teams’ first meeting — a 17-point defeat in Columbia in mid-January. The Longhorns returned the favor when the Gamecocks visited Austin in February, earning a four-point win that ended South Carolina’s 57-game SEC regular-season win streak.
The 2025 SEC Tournament begins March 5 in Greenville, S.C., and both the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds receive first- and second-round byes and won’t play until March 7. The No. 1 seed plays six hours earlier than the No. 2 seed in that quarterfinal round.
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