The Alabama men's basketball team will be the No. 9 seed in the 2020 SEC Tournament and will play eighth-seeded Tennessee on Thursday at noon CT on the SEC Network.

The winner of Thursday's second-round contest will advance to take on No. 1-seeded Kentucky in Friday's quarterfinals.

The Crimson Tide (16-15, 8-10 SEC) and Volunteers (17-14, 9-9) squared off once during the regular season, with Tennessee capturing a narrow 69-68 win on Feb. 4 in Tuscaloosa.

Alabama owns a 10-5 advantage when taking on the Vols in the SEC Tournament. The last time the two teams met in the postseason was March 15, 2013, when the Tide captured a 58-48 victory.

This year's tournament will be held March 11-15 in the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn.

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Both Alabama and Tennessee ended their regular seasons with lopsided losses on Saturday. The Volunteers lost to Auburn, 85-63, while the Crimson Tide lost to Missouri, 69-50.

"Give Missouri a lot of credit," head coach Nate Oats said. "I thought they were really good and their game plan caused us fits. It was our worst offensive performance by far this year. They kind of bottled up Kira's penetration and took away our three-point shooting.

"I thought we battled hard for about 30 minutes and they went a run that took it from a three-point lead for us to go up around 10 with eight minutes left. From what our assistants told me, they scored on 17 of their final 18 possessions before intentionally not scoring on their last couple.

"It was pretty embarrassing effort on defense to close the game out. Going into the game, we said that no matter what happens, let's make sure and give an effort the whole game. I thought we did that up until that point then the dam just sort of broke."

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