SEC Basketball Announces Regular Season Awards
SEC Basketball announced its regular season winners on Tuesday, March 12. The awards are based on coaches voting and include team and individual awards.
All 14 SEC Basketball coaches voted and the postseason award results are here. The awards include some team and individual awards.
The team awards are first and second All-SEC teams, All-Freshman team, and All-Defensive Team. Individual awards include Coach of the Year, Player of the Year, Scholar-Athlete of the Year, Freshman of the Year, Sixth-Man of the Year, and Defensive Player of the Year.
Some of the big winners for this season are Ole Miss head coach Kermit Davis who won the SEC Coach of the Year award.
Davis led the Rebels to a 20-11, 10-8 record in his first season and improved from a 12-20, 5-13 record. According to Ole Miss’s website, he joined Andy Kennedy as the only two coaches to win the honor in their first season coaching the Rebels.
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Grant Williams secured his second-in-a-row SEC Player of the Year honors.
According to Tennessee’s website, he is the 10th player in conference history to win the award in back-to-back years.
Williams is also the first to do it since Arkansas’ Corliss Williamson did it in 1994 and 1995.
For the regular season, Williams averaged 19.3 points, 7.7 rebounds, 3.3 assists, and 1.45 blocks a game.
He completed 56.9 percent of his shots from the floor, 33.3 percent from the arc, and 83.3 percent from the foul line.
Kentucky’s Keldon Johnson brought home the SEC Freshman of the Year over his teammate Tyler Herro. Hassani Gravett from South Carolina won SEC Sixth Man of the Year.
Tremont Waters from LSU and Ashton Hagans from Kentucky are the SEC Co-Defensive Players of the Year.
The Wildcats racked up in the award column with two individual awards. They also had a representative on all four of the group awards.
According to the SEC Network’s website, here is the full list of award winners.
First Team All-SEC
Daniel Gafford, Arkansas
P.J. Washington, Kentucky
Tremont Waters, LSU
Breein Tyree, Ole Miss
Quinndary Weatherspoon, Mississippi State
Chris Silva, South Carolina
Admiral Schofield, Tennessee
Grant Williams, Tennessee
Second Team All-SEC
Bryce Brown, Auburn
Jared Harper, Auburn
Nicolas Claxton, Georgia
Tyler Herro, Kentucky
Keldon Johnson, Kentucky
Skylar Mays, LSU
Terence Davis, Ole Miss
Jordan Bone, Tennessee
All-Freshman Team
Kira Lewis Jr., Alabama
Isaiah Joe, Arkansas
Andrew Nembhard, Florida
Tyler Herro, Kentucky
Keldon Johnson, Kentucky
Naz Reid, LSU
Reggie Perry, Mississippi State
A.J. Lawson, South Carolina
All-Defensive Team
Donta Hall, Alabama
Daniel Gafford, Arkansas
Ashton Hagans, Kentucky
Tremont Waters, LSU
Chris Silva, South Carolina
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Up next for SEC basketball is the conference tournament. The SEC Tournament begins March 13 and will last through Sunday, March 17. Game one between Georgia and Missouri is Wednesday, March 13 with tip-off set for 7 p.m. ET on the SEC Network.