2023–24 Southeastern Conference men's basketball season

The 2023–24 Southeastern Conference men's basketball season began with practices in October followed by the 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, which started November 6, 2023. Conference began on January 6, 2024, and will end in March, after which 14 member teams will participate in the 2024 SEC men's basketball tournament at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee. The tournament champion will receive the conference's automatic bid to the 2024 NCAA tournament.

This will be the final season with 14 members of the conference as Texas and Oklahoma will join the conference before the start of the 2024–25

Preseason watchlists
Below is a table of notable preseason watch lists.

SEC media days
The SEC conducted its 2023 SEC media days in Birmingham, Alabama on October 18 & 19, 2023 on the SEC Network.

The teams and representatives in respective order are as follows:
 * Alabama – Nate Oats (HC), Aaron Estrada & Mark Sears
 * Arkansas – Eric Musselman (HC), Trevon Brazile & Davonte Davis
 * Auburn – Bruce Pearl (HC), Johni Broome & Jaylin Williams
 * Florida – Todd Golden (HC), Will Richard & Tyrese Samuel
 * Georgia – Mike White (HC), Justin Hill & Noah Thomasson
 * Kentucky – John Calipari (HC), Trey Mitchell & Antonio Reeves
 * LSU – Matt McMahon (HC), Derek Fountain & Jordan Wright
 * Ole Miss – Chris Beard (HC), Allen Flanigan & Matthew Murrell
 * Mississippi State – Chris Jans (HC), Cameron Matthews & Tolu Smith
 * Missouri – Dennis Gates (HC), Noah Carter & Nick Honor
 * South Carolina – Lamont Paris (HC), Ta'Lon Cooper & Meechie Johnson
 * Tennessee – Rick Barnes (HC), Santiago Vescovi & Zakai Zeigler
 * Texas A&M – Buzz Williams (HC), Tyrece Radford & Wade Taylor
 * Vanderbilt – Jerry Stackhouse (HC), Tyrin Lawrence & Ezra Manion

Source:

SEC Preseason All-Conference

 * First Team


 * Second Team
 * Honorable Mention

Midseason watchlists
Below is a table of notable midseason watch lists.

Regular season
The schedule was released in late October. Before the season, it was announced that for the seventh consecutive season, all regular-season conference games and conference tournament games would be broadcast nationally by ESPN Inc. family of networks including ABC, ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU, FOX and FS1, CBS Sports, and the Pac-12 Network.

ACC–SEC Challenge
Team rankings are reflective of AP poll when the game was played, not current or final ranking

Records vs other conferences
The SEC has a record of 136–46 in non-conference play for the 2023–24 season. Records shown for regular season only.

Regular season

Record against ranked non-conference opponents
This is a list of games against ranked opponents only (rankings from the AP Poll at time of the game):

† denotes neutral site game

Conference schedule
This table summarizes the head-to-head results between teams in conference play.

Thru Mar. 6, 2024

Points scored
Through Mar. 6, 2024

Rankings
* AP does not release post-NCAA tournament rankings

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

Notes:
 * SEC records, conference titles, etc. are from time at current school and are through the end the 2022–23 season.
 * NCAA tournament appearances are from time at current school only.
 * NCAA Final Fours and Championship include time at other schools.

SEC Players of the Week
Throughout the regular season, the SEC offices will honor 2 players based on performance by naming them player of the week and freshman of the week.

Totals per school
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All-Americans
To earn "consensus" status, a player must win honors based on a point system computed from the four different all-America teams. The point system consists of three points for first team, two points for second team and one point for third team. No honorable mention or fourth team or lower are used in the computation. The top five totals plus ties are first team and the next five plus ties are second team.

Sources: *Associated Press All-America Team *National Association of Basketball Coaches All-America Team *Sporting News All-America Team *USBWA All-America Team

All-District
The United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) named the following from the SEC to their All-District Teams:


 * District IV

All-District Team

Player of the Year
 * District IV

All-District Team

The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) named the following from the SEC to their All-District Teams:


 * District 20

All-SEC

 * ‡ SEC Player of the Year
 * ††† three-time All-SEC First Team honoree
 * †† two-time All-SEC First Team honoree


 * Honorable Mention

All-Freshman Team
‡ SEC Freshman of the Year
 * Honorable Mention

All-Defensive Team

 * ‡SEC Defensive Player of the Year
 * †† two-time SEC All-Defensive Team honoree
 * Honorable Mention

SEC Tournament Most Outstanding Player
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2023–24 Season statistic leaders
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Home game attendance
Bold – At or exceed capacity †Season high