2016–17 Southeastern Conference men's basketball season

The 2016–17 Southeastern Conference men's basketball season began with practices in October 2016, followed by the start of the 2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season in November. Conference play started in early January 2017 and concluded in March, after which 14 member teams participated in the 2017 SEC tournament at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee, with the tournament champion guaranteed a selection to the 2017 NCAA tournament.

Media Day Selections
 first place votes

Preseason All-SEC teams

 * Coaches select 8 players
 * Players in bold are choices 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.

SEC regular season
This table summarizes the head-to-head results between teams in conference play.

SEC Tournament

 * March, 12 at the Bridgestone Arena, Nashville, Tennessee. Teams will be seeded by conference record, with ties broken by record between the tied teams followed by record against the regular-season champion, if necessary.

Players of the Week
Throughout the conference regular season, the SEC offices named one or two players of the week and one or two freshmen of the week each Monday.