Jones, Oats lead SEC All-Conference team selected by coaches, AP
Members of the first team All-SEC as selected by the league coaches. (Courtesy SEC)
By GRAHAM DUNN
BIRMINGHAM – After winning the 2021 Southeastern Conference regular season championship, the awards are beginning to pile up for individuals for the Alabama Crimson Tide.
On Tuesday, senior Herbert Jones was named the SEC Player of the Year while second-year coach Nate Oats was named Coach of the Year by the league coaches.
Jones was also named the Defensive Player of the Year after leading the Tide to its best regular season since 1986-87.
Jones was joined on the First Team by teammate John Petty, Jr. Tide guard Jaden Shackleford was named to the second team.
Vanderbilt’s Dylan Disu earned SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year; Arkansas’ Moses Moody was tabbed SEC Freshman of the Year and Arkansas’ JD Notae was voted SEC Sixth Man of the Year.
Sharife Cooper was the lone representative from Auburn, named to the All-Freshman team along with Alabama’s Joshua Primo.
Jones is the first Player of the Year from Alabama since 2002 when Erwin Dudley earned the award. Jones is also the first player ever from Alabama to earn the Defensive Player of the Year since the award was created in 2004.
For the first time since 2006, Kentucky did not have a representative on the coaches first team and the first time to not have representation on either first or second team since 1989.
The Associated Press All-SEC honors echoed the coaches, picking Oats as top coach and Jones top player.
2021 SEC Men’s Basketball postseason awards
First Team All-SEC
Herbert Jones, Alabama
John Petty Jr., Alabama
Moses Moody, Arkansas
Tre Mann, Florida
Cameron Thomas, LSU
Devontae Shuler, Ole Miss
Dru Smith, Missouri
Scotty Pippen Jr., Vanderbilt
Second Team All-SEC
Jaden Shackelford, Alabama
Colin Castleton, Florida
Sahvir Wheeler, Georgia
Javonte Smart, LSU
Trendon Watford, LSU
D.J. Stewart Jr., Mississippi State
Jeremiah Tilmon, Missouri
AJ Lawson, South Carolina
All-Freshman Team
Joshua Primo, Alabama
Moses Moody, Arkansas
Sharife Cooper, Auburn
KD Johnson, Georgia
Isaiah Jackson, Kentucky
Cameron Thomas, LSU
Keon Johnson, Tennessee
Jaden Springer, Tennessee
All-Defensive Team
Herbert Jones, Alabama
Isaiah Jackson, Kentucky
Abdul Ado, Mississippi State
Dru Smith, Missouri
Yves Pons, Tennessee
Coach of the Year: Nate Oats, Alabama
Player of the Year: Herbert Jones, Alabama
Scholar-Athlete of the Year: Dylan Disu, Vanderbilt
Freshman of the Year: Moses Moody, Arkansas
Sixth-Man of the Year: JD Notae, Arkansas
Defensive Player of the Year: Herbert Jones, Alabama
Associated Press All-SEC Teams
FIRST TEAM
Herb Jones, Alabama
Moses Moody, Arkansas
Scotty Pippen Jr., Vanderbilt
Cameron Thomas, LSU
Trendon Watford, LSU
SECOND TEAM
Tre Mann, Florida
Sahvir Wheeler, Georgia
John Petty, Alabama
Jeremiah Tilmon, Missouri
Dru Smith, Missouri
Coach of the Year: Nate Oats, Alabama
Player of the Year: Herbert Jones, Alabama
Newcomer of the Year: Moses Moody, Arkansas