Kentucky, Mississippi State Headline SEC Preseason Media Basketball Picks

by Year2 on Oct 19, 2009 7:11 PM EDT in Basketball Comment 9 comments

The SEC media has voted and produced its collective preseason basketball picks. Kentucky and Mississippi State are the two respective picks in each division, and UK collected the most votes for conference champion at 20. MSU got three such votes, and Tennessee picked up two. Here's how the divisional picks worked out:

EAST

Kentucky, 148 points (23 divisional first place votes)

Tennessee, 117 points (2 divisional first place votes)

Vanderbilt, 90 points

South Carolina, 77 points

Florida, 68 points

Georgia, 25 points

WEST

Mississippi State, 144 points (22 divisional first place votes)

Ole Miss, 120 points (2 divisional first place votes)

Alabama, 84 points

LSU, 70 points (1 divisional first place vote)

Arkansas, 63 points

Auburn, 44 points

After the jump, a look at the individual player awards.

Kentucky's Patrick Patterson was the only unanimous pick for First Team All-SEC, and he was the leading vote getter for preseason player of the year (11 votes). The other POY vote getters were Kentucky G John Wall (6), MSU F Jarvis Varnado (3), South Carolina G Devan Downey, and Tennessee G/F Tyler Smith. Here are the first and second team All-SEC squads.

FIRST TEAM ALL-SEC

G Devan Downey, South Carolina

G Terrico White, Ole Miss

G/F Tyler Smith, Tennessee

F Patrick Patterson, Kentucky

F Jarvis Varnado, Mississippi State

SECOND TEAM ALL-SEC

G John Wall, Kentucky

G Chris Warren, Ole Miss

G DeWayne Reed, Auburn

F Tasmin Mitchell, LSU

C Andrew Ogilvy, Vanderbilt

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I'm a little surprised to see Florida "down."

But then it’s only preseason rankings.

LSU is regrouping a bit. I’m hoping they make the tourney this year — that will be a very successful year imo.

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by Gregatron on Oct 19, 2009 7:59 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

The cupboard is a bit bare this year, I’m afraid.

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by Year2 on Oct 20, 2009 7:39 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Basketball??

Yeah ill check back in around late February.

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by bammer on Oct 19, 2009 9:21 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Kentucky will have a 1 seed wrapped up by then....

First time I shot her, shot her in the side.
Hard to watch her suffer, but with the second shot she died...

by btcoop71 on Oct 19, 2009 10:13 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Can't wait for hoops.

SEC East is STACKED this year. All of the teams other than UGA are going to be good.

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by Gamecock Man on Oct 19, 2009 10:35 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

True that

This is the best teh SEC has been in probably 4 or 5 years.

First time I shot her, shot her in the side.
Hard to watch her suffer, but with the second shot she died...

by btcoop71 on Oct 20, 2009 8:04 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

John Wall SEC 2nd team?

Okay.

by mrmondaynite on Oct 20, 2009 4:02 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

This can be read one of two ways.

Which way did you mean it?

Eric Berry for sending the guy who wins the Heisman spinning 720 degrees in the air at the podium - or for intercepting it and returning it to where it rightfully belongs

by Graysnail on Oct 20, 2009 7:20 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs