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SEC Basketball: Yante Maten and Collin Sexton make Wooden Award list

By Richard Gnann

Collin Sexton #2 of the Alabama Crimson Tide and SEC basketball . (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)
Collin Sexton #2 of the Alabama Crimson Tide and SEC basketball . (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images) /
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TUCSON, AZ - DECEMBER 09: Collin Sexton #2 of the Alabama Crimson Tide and SEC basketball .
TUCSON, AZ - DECEMBER 09: Collin Sexton #2 of the Alabama Crimson Tide and SEC basketball . /

Collin Sexton

For Collin Sexton, it’s not so much he hasn’t arrived, as his team hasn’t quite arrived with him

SEC basketball expected Sexton to explode onto the national scene and dominate the conference in the backcourt.

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Sexton is the first Alabama player to score at least 40 points in a game since Reggie King in 1978. Sexton scored 40 against Minnestoa when Alabama finished the game playing 3-5.

“Collin Sexton, he could beat a single team [by] himself,” Minnesota coach Richard Pitino said after the Nov. 25 game. “He’s that good. Obviously that was just absurd, just the whole experience.”

Sexton currently leads the SEC with 19.5 points per contest to go along with 3.5 assists, 3.3 rebounds and 1.3 steals.

Sexton is doing his part, but the Alabama team hasn’t quite caught up to him yet, and for that reason he will be left off the next cut. Alabama is 10- 6 and 2- 2 in the SEC basketball play. The Tide is pretty much hanging in the middle of the pack, and that’s where Sexton is in the Wooden Award race.

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