Three Tennessee players named to All-SEC teams
Three Tennessee basketball players were named to the SEC’s all-conference teams on Monday afternoon. Santiago Vescovi was named First Team All-SEC, Zakai Zeigler was a Second Team All-SEC pick and made the All-Defensive team and Julian Phillips was named to the All-Freshman team.
Texas A&M’s Buzz Williams and Vanderbilt’s Jerry Stackhouse were named co-coaches of the year and Alabama’s Brandon Miller was both the player of the year and the freshman of the year.
Missouri’s Kobe Brown was named scholar-athlete of the year, Alabama’s Jahvon Quinerly and Kentucky’s Antonio Reeves were named co-sixth men of the year and Vanderbilt’s Liam Robbins was the defensive player of the year.
Tennessee (22-9, 11-7 SEC) finished fifth in the SEC’s regular-season standings and will play in the SEC Tournament on Thursday at approximately 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time (TV: SEC Network), facing either No. 12-seed South Carolina or No. 13 Ole Miss.
The Vols dropped to No. 17 in Monday’s Associated Press Top 25 after a 79-70 loss at Auburn on Saturday, the sixth loss over the final 10 games of the regular-season schedule.
All-SEC First Team
Brandon Miller, Alabama; Colin Castleton, Florida; Oscar Tshiebwe, Kentucky; Tolu Smith, Mississippi State; Kobe Brown, Missouri; Santiago Vescovi, Tennessee; Wade Taylor IV, Texas A&M; Liam Robbins, Vanderbilt
All-SEC Second Team
Mark Sears, Alabama; Anthony Black, Arkansas; Ricky Council IV, Arkansas; Johni Broome, Auburn; Wendell Green Jr., Auburn; KJ Williams, LSU; Zakai Zeigler, Tennessee; Tyrece Radford, Texas A&M
All-Defensive Team
Charles Bediako, Alabama; Davonte Davis, Arkansas; Colin Castleton, Florida; Zakai Zeigler, Tennessee; Liam Robbins, Vanderbilt
All-Freshman Team
Jaden Bradley, Alabama; Noah Clowney, Alabama; Brandon Miller, Alabama; Anthony Black, Arkansas; Riley Kugel, Florida; Chris Livingston, Kentucky; Cason Wallace, Kentucky; Gregory “GG” Jackson II, South Carolina; Julian Phillips, Tennessee
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Vescovi leads Tennessee in scoring (12.7 points per game), minutes (32.8), 3-point percentage (.361), 3-point shots made (75) and is second in shots made (117). He’s also second in assists (84) and steals (59).
He has scored in double-figures 19 times through 31 games and has hit three or more 3-pointers in 15 games. He scored a team-high 21 points in the 79-70 loss at Auburn on Saturday, going 5-for-9 from the 3-point line in 39 minutes, adding five rebounds and four assists.
Vescovi missed three games earlier this season after suffering a shoulder injury in December and reaggravated the injury in the home loss to Kentucky in January.
Zeigler was averaging 10.7 points, 5.3 assists, 2.7 rebounds and 1.9 steals in 28.7 minutes per game before tearing his ACL Tuesday in Tennessee’s 75-57 win over Arkansas.
Phillips averages 9.0 points and 4.9 rebounds in his 24.8 minutes per game, starting 25 times in 27 games. He’s added 43 assists, 17 steals and 16 blocks.
Phillips scored a season-high 25 points in an overtime win over USC in the Battle 4 Atlantis in the Bahamas in November. He’s scored in double-figures 12 times, including the 10 points he had at Auburn on Saturday.
