Tennessee basketball standouts Admiral Schofield and Grant Williams added to their extensive preseason honors haul Tuesday when the Southeastern Conference unveiled its 15th annual men’s basketball coaches preseason All-SEC Teams.
Schofield and Williams each were among the eight players named to the All-SEC first team. On Monday, both upperclassmen were named to the Atlanta Tipoff Club’s watch list for the 2019 Citizen Naismith Trophy Men’s Player of the Year Award.
Tuesday’s coaches’ preseason All-SEC first and second teams consist of a minimum of eight players on each squad, voted on by the league’s 14 head coaches. No ties were broken (39 different players received votes, and 10 players made the second team), coaches were prohibited from voting for their own players and no predicted order of finish was made. Tennessee and Kentucky were the only teams to place multiple players on the first team.
The 2018-19 season officially tips off Tuesday night. Tennessee is one of nine SEC teams in action on the first day of competition, as the sixth-ranked Volunteers host Lenoir-Rhyne at 7 p.m. ET at Thompson-Boling Arena. The game will be televised on the SEC Network, and tickets are available at AllVols.com.
After leading the Vols to a 26-9 record and the SEC Championship a season ago, Williams was selected by the league’s coaches as the 2018 SEC Player of the Year. Schofield was a second-team All-SEC selection.
A complete listing of the 2019 SEC men’s basketball coaches preseason All-SEC teams follows:
First-Team All-SEC
Daniel Gafford – Arkansas
Reid Travis – Kentucky
PJ Washington – Kentucky
Tremont Waters – LSU
Quinndary Weatherspoon – Mississippi State
Chris Silva – South Carolina
Admiral Schofield – Tennessee
Grant Williams – Tennessee
Second-Team All-SEC
Donta Hall – Alabama
Herbert Jones – Alabama
Bryce Brown – Auburn
Jared Harper – Auburn
KeVaughn Allen – Florida
Jalen Hudson – Florida
Terence Davis – Ole Miss
Aric Holman – Mississippi State
TJ Starks – Texas A&M
Darius Garland – Vanderbilt
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