1992 SEC men's basketball tournament

1992 SEC men's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	1991–92
Teams	11
Site	Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex Birmingham, Alabama
Champions	Kentucky (17th title)
Winning coach	Rick Pitino (1st title)
MVP	Jamal Mashburn (Kentucky)
Attendance	163,812 (sellout)
Television	Jefferson Pilot Sports ESPN (Championship Game, Outside the SEC Footprint)
SEC men's basketball tournaments

1991–92 Southeastern Conference men's basketball standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
East
No. 6 Kentucky †	12	–	4		.750			29	–	7		.806
Florida	9	–	7		.563			19	–	14		.576
Tennessee	8	–	8		.500			19	–	15		.559
Georgia	7	–	9		.438			15	–	14		.517
Vanderbilt	6	–	10		.375			15	–	15		.500
South Carolina	3	–	13		.188			11	–	17		.393
West
No. 9 Arkansas	13	–	3		.813			26	–	8		.765
No. 25 LSU	12	–	4		.750			21	–	10		.677
No. 13 Alabama	10	–	6		.625			26	–	9		.743
Mississippi State	7	–	9		.438			15	–	13		.536
Auburn	5	–	11		.313			12	–	15		.444
Ole Miss	4	–	12		.250			11	–	17		.393
† 1992 SEC tournament winner Rankings from AP Poll

The 1992 SEC men's basketball tournament took place from March 12–15, 1992 at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex in Birmingham, Alabama. The Kentucky Wildcats, who returned to the tournament after a two-year NCAA-sanctioned ban, won the tournament and received the SEC’s automatic bid to the 1992 NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament by defeating the Alabama Crimson Tide by a score of 80–54. That win would be Kentucky’s 17th overall SEC tournament title. Auburn did not participate, leaving only 11 teams in the field.

Television coverage of the tournament was produced and regionally syndicated entirely by Jefferson Pilot Sports (known on air as JP Sports due to the initials used on the logo at the time), in its fifth year as the syndicated rightsholder of SEC Basketball. However, ESPN broadcast the championship game outside the SEC footprint.

Bracket

	First round					Second Round					Semifinals					Championship Game
	9	Vanderbilt	77
	7	Mississippi State	55
						2	#9 Kentucky	76
						9	Vanderbilt	57
											2	#9 Kentucky	80
											3	#23 LSU	74
						3	#23 LSU	99
						6	Tennessee	89
	6	Tennessee	70
	11	South Carolina	63
																2	#9 Kentucky	80
																4	#17 Alabama	54
						4	#17 Alabama	62
						5	Florida	60
											4	#17 Alabama	90
											1	#6 Arkansas	89
						1	#6 Arkansas	73
						8	Georgia	60
	8	Georgia	85
	10	Ole Miss	66