SEC basketball tournament updates, scores, results: Kentucky, Tennessee advance

Here’s where we stand after tonight’s action.

Four quarterfinal matchups on deck tomorrow:

No. 9 Kentucky vs. No. 1 Florida | 1 p.m. | ESPN
No. 5 Tennessee vs. No. 4 Vanderbilt | 3:30 p.m. | ESPN
No. 15 Ole Miss vs. No. 2 Alabama | 7 p.m. | SEC Network
No. 11 Oklahoma vs. No. 3 Arkansas | 9:30 p.m. | SEC Network

The Sooners are trying to surge into the NCAA tournament. ESPN’s Joe Lunardi had them as a “first four out” team going into tonight. Another win tomorrow could do wonders for their résumé.

Nijel Pack’s 20 points leads the way in OU’s dominant victory (though Pack left the game late with an injury and didn’t return). The SEC No. 11 seed Sooners advance to the quarterfinals, where they’ll face No. 3 Arkansas tomorrow.

And now Oklahoma’s leading scorer is down on the court after a rough collision with Texas A&M’s Marcus Hill. Pack returns to the bench with a towel on his nose.

Nijel Pack has 20 points and he’s helped the Sooners build the lead back above 20 points.

Oklahoma 75, Texas A&M 54 | 5:58 to play

Texas A&M has been much better offensively in the second half but it looks like the Oklahoma lead is just too big to cut into.

OU leads 70-54 with 7:22 to play

After the Aggies went on their run early in the 2nd half, the Sooners stopped the bleeding.

Oklahoma leads 61-44 at the 11:50 mark.

The Aggies have hit their first five shots of the second half and are on an 8-0 run. Can they make this a game?

Oklahoma leads 54-40 at the 16:19 mark.

We’re back for the final 20 minutes of SEC tournament action in Nashville tonight.

Oklahoma: shooting 59.4%

Texas A&M: 29.4%

That’s the story of the game so far.

Here’s the full box score

Nijel Pack has 15 points, Xzayvier Brown has 12 and the Sooners are dominating through 20 minutes.

This has been a complete disaster of a first half for Texas A&M.

Oklahoma leads 38-18 at the under-4 timeout.

Sooners lead 32-14 at the 8:12 mark of the first half.

The Sooners are flying early on, hitting 10 of 14 shots en route to a 25-11 lead the 11:00 mark.

Nijel Pack has 11 points and has hit all 4 of his shots so far.

Xzayvier Brown and Nijel Pack each have 5 quick points and the Sooners are on an 8-0 run to grab a 14-6 lead in the opening minutes.

The action has begun in Nashville for our final SEC tournament game of the night.

The last SEC tournament tame of the night featured No. 6 seed Texas A&M vs. 11 seed Oklahoma.

The Sooners likely need a win tonight and possibly another one or two after that to fight their way into the NCAA tournament field.

Ole Miss once again pulls off a close upset of Georgia, this time in the SEC tournament to set up a clash with No. 2 seed Alabama in the quarterfinals. AJ Storr posted a team-high 19 points off the bench for Ole Miss, while Georgia shot 35.4% as a team.

The Rebels never trailed and led by as much as 23, then narrowly avoided disaster.

Tyler Perry gets the game-deciding rebound after Georgia intentionally misses the second free throw. Looks like Ole Miss is going to pull this out.