The SEC men's or women's basketball tournament will be played in Nashville beginning this season through 2035, The Tennessean has learned.

A contract, which currently has the men's or women's tournament playing at Bridgestone Arena through 2025, will be extended by 10 years, according to a source close to the Nashville Sports Council.

Under the current contract, the men's tournament will be played in Nashville each year except 2022. The women's tournament will be here in 2022.

The extension will bring the men's tournament back to Nashville in 2026-2035.

The women were originally set to return in 2026, but that year will be converted to the men's tournament.

An official announcement is expected to be made Tuesday at 4:45 p.m. at a joint news conference with the SEC and the Nashville Sports Council at Nissan Stadium.

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey will be in Nashville for the announcement. Mayor David Briley will also be at the news conference.

The SEC men's tournament will be played in Tampa, Fla. in 2022.

The Nashville Sports Council has worked hard to bring the SEC basketball tournaments to Bridgestone Arena as often as possible.

The men's tournament was at Bridgestone Arena in 2010, 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017. It was at the Scottrade Center in St. Louis in 2018.

The women's tournament was in Nashville in 2002, 2004, 2008, 2011, 2012 and 2018.

The current contract, agreed upon in 2015, has the men's tournament in Nashville in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2025. The women, in that contract are here in 2022.

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