Auburn takes top SEC awards for 2024-25

Auburn’s Johni Broome was named the 2025 SEC Player of the Year by the league’s coaches. (Auburn University Media Relations)

By GRAHAM DUNN

The 2024-25 Southeastern Conference regular-season champions dominated the league’s top awards as announced by the league on Monday.

Auburn took home two of the top awards and placed two players on the all-conference teams, selected by the coaches.

Bruce Pearl was named SEC Coach of the Year and Johni Broome was selected the SEC Player of the Year. Broome was named first team while Chad Baker-Mazara was named third team.

Broome is Auburn’s first Player of the Year winner since 1999 when Chris Porter earned the award. Pearl’s award was the second as the Auburn head coach (2022) and third overall in the SEC with the other coming at Tennessee in 2008.

South Carolina’s Benjamin Bosmans-Verdonk earned SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year; Tennessee’s Chaz Lanier was voted SEC Newcomer of the Year, Texas’ Tre Johnson was tabbed SEC Freshman of the Year, Tennessee’s Zakai Zeigler was named Defensive Player of the Year and Missouri’s Caleb Grill was voted SEC Sixth Man of the Year. 

Alabama had one player on the All-SEC team in senior guard Mark Sears. Labaron Philon was named to the All-Freshman team.

2024-25 SEC Men’s Basketball Awards

First Team

Johni Broome, Auburn

Walter Clayton Jr., Florida

Mark Sears, Alabama

Wade Taylor IV, Texas A&M

Zakai Zeigler, Tennessee

Second Team

Josh Hubbard, Mississippi State

Tre Johnson, Texas

Chaz Lanier, Tennessee

Collin Murray-Boyles, South Carolina

Otega Oweh, Kentucky

Third Team

Chad Baker-Mazara, Auburn

Alex Condon, Florida

Jason Edwards, Vanderbilt

Mark Mitchell, Missouri

Sean Pedulla, Ole Miss

All-Defensive Team

Denver Jones, Auburn

Jahmai Mashack, Tennessee

Cameron Matthews, Mississippi State

Anthony Robinson II, Missouri

Zakai Zeigler, Tennessee

All-Freshman Team

Jeremiah Fears, Oklahoma

Tre Johnson, Texas

Asa Newell, Georgia

Tahaad Pettiford, Auburn

Labaron Philon, Alabama

Coach of the Year: Bruce Pearl, Auburn

Player of the Year: Johni Broome, Auburn

Scholar-Athlete of the Year: Benjamin Bosmans-Verdonk, South Carolina

Newcomer of the Year: Chaz Lanier, Tennessee

Freshman of the Year: Tre Johnson, Texas

Sixth-Man of the Year: Caleb Grill, Missouri

Defensive Player of the Year: Zakai Zeigler, Tennessee