SEC Basketball Preseason Rankings / Preseason All-SEC Teams

A panel of SEC and national media members have spoken and they say UK in the East and MSU in the West.  Also give Devan Downey some love.

The Wildcats received 20 first place votes of the 25 available. Mississippi State received three and Tennessee the other two.

The predicted order of finish by division was as follows (with total points listed beside each school).

SEC East
1. Kentucky (148 points, 23 first place votes for division title)
2. Tennessee (117 points, 2 first place votes)
3. Vanderbilt (90 points)
4. South Carolina (77 points)
5. Florida (68 points)
6. Georgia (25 points)

SEC West
1. Mississippi State (144 points, 22 first place votes for division title)
2. Ole Miss (120 points, 2 first place votes)
3. Alabama (84 points)
4. LSU (70 points, 1 first place vote)
5. Arkansas (63 points)
6. Auburn (44 points)

The media panel also selected Kentucky forward Patrick Patterson (left) as the preseason SEC Player of the Year.

The preseason All-SEC teams are as follows.....

First Team
Devan Downey, G, South Carolina
Patrick Patterson, F, Kentucky
Tyler Smith, F, Tennessee
Jarvis Varnado, F, Mississippi State
Terrico White, G, Ole Miss

Second Team
Tasmin Mitchell, F, LSU
AJ Ogilvy, C, Vanderbilt
DeWayne Reed, G, Auburn
John Wall, G, Kentucky
Chris Warren, G, Ole Miss

Also some news...

• CBSSports.com’s Gary Parrish looks at the top PGs in the country and Mr. Downey is listed as 4th.
• Collegehoops.net previews the top 144 teams and has the Gamecocks at 30th.