Lady Gators guard Lavender Briggs earns Second Team All-SEC honors

SEC women’s basketball coaches have picked their preseason favorites as well as First and Second Team All-SEC including UF’s Lavender Briggs

Editor’s note: This article was originally published by the Knoxville News Sentinel and has been republished in its entirety below. 

SEC women’s basketball coaches have picked South Carolina as the favorite to win the 2021 SEC Championship.

This comes after the Gamecocks were tabbed as the No. 1 team in the nation in the Associated Press preseason rankings, their 11th-straight week at the top dating back to the abbreviated 2019-20 season.

South Carolina won both the SEC Regular Season and Tournament Championships in 2020, with tournament crowns in five of the past six seasons. Kentucky was picked second in the poll, followed by Texas A&M, Arkansas and Mississippi State.

Kentucky’s Rhyne Howard was voted as the SEC Women’s Basketball Preseason Player of the Year. South Carolina’s Aliyah Boston also received votes.

Coaches were not allowed to vote for their own team or player, and ties were not broken in any way.

The full preseason All-SEC teams and projected order of finish can be seen below.

First Team All-SEC

Chelsea Dungee, Arkansas

Unique Thompson, Auburn

Rhyne Howard, Kentucky

Khayla Pointer, LSU

Rickea Jackson, Mississippi State

Aliyah Boston, South Carolina

Rennia Davis, Tennessee

N’dea Jones, Texas A&M

Second Team All-SEC

Jasmine Walker, Alabama

Destiny Slocum, Arkansas

Lavender Briggs, Florida

Shakira Austin, Ole Miss

Jessika Carter, Mississippi State

Aijha Blackwell, Missouri

Zia Cooke, South Carolina

Kayla Wells, Texas A&M

Order of Finish

1. South Carolina

2. Kentucky

3. Texas A&M

4. Arkansas

5. Mississippi State

6. Tennessee

7. LSU

8. Alabama

9. Georgia

10. Missouri

11. Ole Miss

12. Florida

13. Vanderbilt

14. Auburn

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