Two East SEC Basketball Teams Share SEC Freshmen of the Week
Two SEC Basketball teams have to share one of the weekly honors. Florida and Vanderbilt Basketball share this week’s SEC Freshmen of the Week honors.
Florida’s Andrew Nembhard and Vanderbilt’s Aaron Nesmith are this week’s SEC Co-Freshmen of the Week.
The Gators’ freshman averaged 15 points, 2.5 boards, and 1.5 assists in the wins over Vanderbilt and Alabama. Nembhard shot an impressive 92.8 percent from the field making 13 of 14 buckets last week.
During the game against Alabama, the freshman shot a perfect 9-of-9 from the field. According to Florida’s website, It was the first time since 1996-97 that a Gator was perfect from the floor with nine or more makes.
He scored nine points in sixteen minutes against the Commodores after he got into foul trouble early. Against the Crimson Tide, he scored a season-high 21 points.
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Nembhard has won SEC Freshman of the Week twice now this season and is the first Gator since Michael Frazier II in 2012-13 to win it multiple times.
Vanderbilt picked up its third weekly honors this week with Nesmith after Darius Garland and Simisola Shittu captured it earlier this year.
Nesmith was the Commodores offense last week. He averaged 25 points, 11.5 boards, 1.5 assists and 1.5 steals in last week’s two games.
The freshman led the Commodores in scoring for both games and notched a career-high against Florida scoring 26 points. He also had a career-high of 14 boards against Auburn while scoring 24 points.
That game gave him his second double-double of the season. According to Vanderbilt’s website, Nesmith has scored 20 or more points in four different conference games. He averages 15.3 points in SEC play.
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Both players have tall tasks this week as the Gators travel to Baton Rouge to take on a tough and hot LSU team on Wednesday, Feb. 20 at 7:00 p.m. ET. Then Florida comes home to face off with Missouri on Feb. 23 at 4 p.m. E.T.
Vanderbilt faces off with a mad Tennessee team Tuesday evening in Knoxville at 7 p.m. ET on ESPNU. Then the Commodores take on Alabama Saturday, Feb. 23 in Tuscaloosa for a 6 p.m. tip-off on ESPNU.