SEC Commissioner Roy Kramer presents the 2001 SEC Men's Basketball Tournament trophy to Kentucky coach Tubby Smith.

The 2002 Southeastern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament will be hosted at the Georgia Dome for the fifth time since 1995 and in Atlanta for the eighth time in the league's tournament history.

The Georgia Dome is the largest cable-supported dome stadium in the world. The Georgia Dome has also been host to the last eight SEC Football Championship Games and will host this year's NCAA Men's Final Four.

The winner of the 11-game tournament receives the SEC's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. The tournament seeds, conference championship and division titles are determined by the 16-game conference schedule during the regular season. Teams are seeded by their divisional finish and features Eastern Division-Western Division matchups in every game should the higher seed win each contest.

Atlanta served as host of the inaugural SEC Tournament played following the 1932-33 season and did so again after the 1933-34 season. The event was held every year through 1952, with the exception of 1935. After a 26-year layoff (1953-78), the tournament was renewed in 1979.

The 2002 tournament will be the 42nd in league history and the 24th since the renewal. The event has helped set the stage for SEC teams in the NCAA Tournament, as 17 of the last 21 tournament champions have advanced to at least the Sweet 16 with four of the last 10 reaching the Final Four.

Since the renewal in 1979, the SEC Tournament Champion has failed to win at least one NCAA Tournament game only three times.

Kentucky leads the league with 23 SEC Tournament titles. Alabama is second with six, while Tennessee ranks third with four championship trophies.

SEC TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE (Click on each game for stats, press conference audio and game recaps)

FIRST ROUND
March 7 (Thursday)
Game 1 - [E5] Vanderbilt 62, [W4] LSU 69
Game 2 - [W5] Arkansas 61, [E4] Tennessee 68
Game 3 - [W6] Auburn 63, [E3] Florida 81
Game 4 - [E6] South Carolina 69, [W3] Ole Miss 67

SECOND ROUND
March 8 (Friday)
Game 5 - [W4] LSU 78, [E1] Georgia 76
Game 6 - [E4] Tennessee 72, [W1] Alabama 91
Game 7 - [E3] Florida 52, [W2] Mississippi State 62
Game 8 - [E6] South Carolina 70, [E2] Kentucky 57

SEMIFINALS - Semifinals Audio
March 9 (Saturday)
Game 9 - [W4] LSU 51, [W2] Mississippi State 57
Game 10 - [W1] Alabama 65, [E6] South Carolina 57

FINALS - Championship Game Audio
March 10 (Sunday)
Game 11 - [W2] Mississippi State 61, [W1] Alabama 58

All Times Eastern