Despite the confetti, the net cutting and the celebrations, No. 1 Texas women’s basketball will hold the No. 2 seed in the Southeastern Conference tournament.
Decided by a coin flip, the Longhorns watched the event live from the floor of the Moody Center, where it was being broadcasted during the halftime of the LSU vs Ole Miss game on the Jumbotron.
The 2025 SEC regular season title was shared between the South Carolina Gamecocks and Texas, who both went 15–1 in the SEC. The two programs also played against each other twice, with the Gamecocks winning their home matchup and vice versa. In fact, it was the only time that both teams played one school in the conference twice. Every other SEC matchup for the two programs consisted of playing every other program once.
South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley was quick to X after the flip, thanking the “coin gods” in the process.
“South Carolina. No. 1 seed,” Staley said. “We gotta make it count. See y’all in Greenville.”
The SEC tournament, which will start on March 5, will consist of all 16 schools in the conference, but only the bottom eight seeds will play on the opening day. Nationally ranked No. 1 Texas, No. 6 South Carolina, No. 7 LSU and No. 15 Kentucky will have double-byes and wait to play their first game on March 7.
For Texas head coach Vic Schaefer, seeding isn’t make or break for him. In both believing in his team to win and a quintessential focus to live life in the present, he’ll be more focused on who’s next than what rank his team holds.
Prior to Florida, Tory Teykl, Texas women’s basketball’s director of operations, tried talking about the flip to Schaefer. But it was never a concern for the head coach.
“I’m not talking about that. Like, I’m living in the moment,” Schaefer said. “We had to win at Georgia, then we had to go to Mississippi State. Now we come home, and we’ve got, you know, Florida. So, I’m just living in the moment.”
And remaining in the moment, Schaefer will set his focus on playing his quarterfinal game in Greenville, South Carolina, at 5 p.m. CST on March 7.
