Petty earns preseason honors as Alabama basketball is tabbed for 5th in SEC

[Tony_Tsoukalas]

Alabama basketball was picked to finish fifth place in the SEC while senior guard John Petty Jr. earned preseason first-team honors as the conference announced its preseason poll and team Thursday afternoon.

Tennessee was projected to win the conference while Kentucky, LSU, Florida and Alabama round out the top five. Voting was done by a select panel of both SEC and national media members.

Petty was made the SEC’s preseason first-team along with Florida’s Keyontae Johnson, Brandon Boston, LSU’s Trendon Watford and Tennessee’s John Fulkerson. Johnson was selected as the preseason SEC Player of the Year.

Earlier in the day, Alabama was ranked at No. 25 in the USA Today Coaches Poll.

First Team All-SEC
John Petty Jr. – Alabama
Keyontae Johnson – Florida
Brandon Boston Jr. – Kentucky
Trendon Watford – LSU
John Fulkerson – Tennessee

Second Team All-SEC
Olivier Sarr – Kentucky
Javonte Smart – LSU
Dru Smith – Missouri
AJ Lawson – South Carolina
Yves Pons – Tennessee
Savion Flagg – Texas A&M

SEC Player of the Year
Keyontae Johnson – Florida

Preseason Media Poll
1. Tennessee
2. Kentucky
3. LSU
4. Florida
5. Alabama
6. Arkansas
7. Auburn
8. South Carolina
9. Ole Miss
10. Missouri
11. Texas A&M
12. Mississippi State
13. Georgia
14. Vanderbilt

 

[PlaidandParquet]

Watford pisses me off

 

[mr4bama]

Watford pisses me off

petty needs to bust his ass and make a nba team. the talent is there.

 

[xcop]

Watford pisses me off

Watford has a clause in his contract that he gets a bonus for 1st team.