Birmingham, Ala. –The Southeastern Conference unveiled postseason pricing for its men’s basketball coaches on Tuesday.
Auburn’s Bruce Pearl won SEC Coach of the Year honors and Kentucky’s Oscar Tshiebwe was selected SEC Player of the Year by league coaches. Vanderbilt’s Jordan Wright was named SEC Athlete of the Year; Auburn’s Jabari Smith was named SEC Freshman of the Year, Auburn’s Walker Kessler was named Defensive Player of the Year, and LSU’s Tari Eason was named SEC Sixth Man of the Year. DRY.
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First and second team All-SEC winners, All-Freshman team, All-Defensive team, as well as player, coach and freshman, defensive, sixth man and scholar-athlete of the year were chosen by the league’s 14 coaches. The links were not broken.
A full list of 2022 SEC men’s basketball postseason awards follows:
first team
JD Notae, Arkansas
Jaylin Williams, Arkansas
Walker Kessler, Auburn
Jabari Smith, Auburn
Oscar Tshiebwe, Kentucky
Tari Eason, LSU
Iverson Molinar, Mississippi State
Santiago Vescovi, Tennessee
Scotty Pippen Jr., Vanderbilt
second team
Jaden Shackleford, Alabama
Colin Castleton, Florida
TyTy Washington Jr., Kentucky
Sahvir Wheeler, Kentucky
Darius Days, LSU
Kobe Brown, Mo.
Kennedy Chandler, Tennessee
Quenton Jackson, Texas A&M
Freshman team
Charles Bediako, Alabama
JD Davison, Alabama
Jabari Smith, Auburn
TyTy Washington Jr., Kentucky
Brandon Murray, LSU
Devin Carter, South Carolina
Kennedy Chandler, Tennessee
Zakai Zeigler, Tennessee
All-Defensive Team
Keon Ellis, Alabama
Jaylin Williams, Arkansas
Walker Kessler, Auburn
Oscar Tshiebwe, Kentucky
Zakai Zeigler, Tennessee
Coach of the Year: Bruce Pearl, Auburn
Player of the Year: Oscar Tshiebwe, Kentucky
Scholar-Athlete of the Year: Jordan Wright, Vanderbilt
Freshman of the Year: Jabari Smith, Auburn
Sixth Man of the Year: Tari Eason, LSU
Defensive Player of the Year: Walker Kessler, Auburn
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