SEC Basketball: Jalen Jones and Ben Simmons Earn SEC Honors

Texas A&M’s Jalen Jones and LSU’s Ben Simmons have been awarded for their performances this week with SEC basketball honors.

Texas A&M has been a bit of a surprise team this year in terms of SEC basketball. The Aggies are sitting pretty at 15-2 with a 5-0 SEC basketball record thus far this year. That performance has the Aggies firmly entrenched in the tournament and in the national rankings (#10).

One on of the biggest factors in the success of the Aggies has been due to a 6-foot-7, 220-pound senior forward from Dallas, Texas. That man child is none other than Jalen Jones, who received SEC Basketball Player of the Week honors this week for his performances against the Florida Gators and Georiga Bulldogs last week. Of course the Aggies won both games and Jones was a big reason why.

Jalen Jones nearly averaged a double-double week, averaging 19 points and 9 rebounds in the two victories over SEC Basketball opponents. Against Florida, Jones shot 3-of-4 from 3-point range and finished with a game-high 26 points. It was his sixth 20-point performance of the season. He followed that outburst with his 12th career double-double at Georgia. He scored only 12 points but pulled in 12 rebounds in the game. Jones was efficient in his scoring this week, as he shot 46.2 from the floor and 57.1 from 3-point range.