Conference Notes
· Kentucky has clinched its 49th SEC regular season championship and the No. 1 seed in the SECTournament.
· Eight teams rank in the Top 60 of the NCAA’s NET rankings (second-most among all conferences).
· All 14 SEC schools have played schedules that rank among the Top 100 in the nation.
· There have been 34 instances in which an SEC player has scored 30+ points in a single game already this season. That is the most in the league over the last 20 years. The previous most were 30 games in 2009.
· Four players from SEC schools were selected to the 2020 NBA All-Star Game: Bam Adebayo (Kentucky), Anthony Davis (Kentucky), Khris Middleton (Texas A&M), Ben Simmons (LSU).
· LSU’s Skyler Mays was named one of 10 finalists for the Senior CLASS Award.
· Ten different SEC teams have received votes in the AP Poll this season.
· The seventh annual Big 12/SEC Challenge on January 25 resulted with both leagues taking home five wins. Over the last four years of the Challenge, both conferences have won 20 games.
· Thirteen current SEC players have earned their degrees, including five – Jamario Bell (AR), Anfernee McLemore (AU), Jalen Johnson (UT), Josh Nebo (AM), Wendell Mitchell (AM) and Mitchell Storm (MS) – who graduated in December.
· Six SEC teams rank among the 50 youngest NCAA Division I teams according to KenPom.com – Florida ninth, Kentucky 17th, Vanderbilt 28th, South Carolina 29th, LSU 39th and Georgia 41st.
· The SEC’s 15 NCAA Tournament selections of the last two years are second-most in the nation.
Team/Individual Notes
· SEC co-Players of the Week – Arkansas guard Mason Jones and Kentucky guard Immanuel Quickley were named co-Players of the Week. Jones, a 6-foot-5, 200-pound junior from DeSoto, Texas, averaged 31.5 points, 2.5 rebounds, 2.5 assists and one steal against Tennessee and Georgia. Jones recorded his seventh 30-point game this season which is the fourth-most in the NCAA this season. Quickley, a 6-foot-3, 188-pound sophomore from Havre de Grace, Md., averaged 24 points, 8.5 rebounds, two assists and one steal in wins over Texas A&M and Florida. Quickley converted nine of 17 3-pointers (52.9 percent) and all 11 of his free throws on the week.
· SEC Freshman of the Week – Georgia guard Anthony Edwards, a 6-foot-5, 225-pound freshman from Atlanta, Ga., averaged 31 points, seven rebounds, three assists and 2.5 steals while shooting 52.8 percent from the field and 85.0 percent from the line against South Carolina and Arkansas. Posted game-high scoring outputs of 36 points at South Carolina and 26 against Arkansas.
· Alabama’s Kira Lewis recorded just the third triple-double in school history when he had 10 points, 10 rebounds, 13 assists at Auburn on Feb. 12.
· Alabama set SEC records for 3-pointers made (22) and attempts (59) against Auburn on Feb. 12.
· Arkansas’ Mason Jones is one of three players nationally to have multiple 40-point games: 41 vs. Tulsa (Dec. 14) and 40 vs. Auburn (Feb. 4).
· Vanderbilt’s Saben Lee (33) and Maxwell Evans (31) both scored 30+ points against LSU on Feb. 5. They became the first teammates in the SEC to have 30 or more points in the same game since Kentucky’s Jodie Meeks (32) and Patrick Patterson (33) against Tennessee State on Dec. 22, 2008.
Recent/Upcoming Games (All times Eastern):
Tuesday, March 3
*at South Carolina 83, Mississippi State 71
*Vanderbilt 87, at Alabama 79
*Tennessee 81, at #6 Kentucky 73
Wednesday, March 4
*Florida 68, at Georgia 54
*Texas A&M 78, at #17 Auburn 75
*at Arkansas 99, LSU 90
*at Ole Miss 75, Missouri 67
*#17 Auburn at Tennessee ESPN2 12:00 pm
*South Carolina at Vanderbilt SEC Network 12:30 pm
*#6 Kentucky at Florida CBS 1:00 pm
*Georgia at LSU ESPN2 2:00 pm
*Alabama at Missouri SEC Network 2:30 pm
*Arkansas at Texas A&M SEC Network 4:30 pm
*Ole Miss at Mississippi State SEC Network 6:30 pm
2020 SEC Basketball Tournament
SEC Tournament Game 1 SEC Network 7:00 pm
SEC Tournament Game 2 SEC Network 9:00 pm
SEC Tournament Game 3 SEC Network 1:00 pm
SEC Tournament Game 4 SEC Network 3:00 pm
SEC Tournament Game 5 SEC Network 7:00 pm
SEC Tournament Game 6 SEC Network 9:00 pm
SEC Tournament Game 7 ESPN 1:00 pm
SEC Tournament Game 8 ESPN 3:00 pm
SEC Tournament Game 9 SEC Network 7:00 pm
SEC Tournament Game 10 SEC Network 9:00 pm
SEC Tournament Game 11 ESPN 1:00 pm
SEC Tournament Game 12 ESPN 3:00 pm
Championship Game (Game 13) ESPN 1:00 pm