Auburn basketball has a reliable weapon in [autotag]Johni Broome[/autotag].
Broome is a player who, no matter how well or how poorly the team plays, will lead the charge for the Tigers. He has posted nine double-doubles this season and has reached double figures in all but three of Auburn’s 22 games played to this point in the season. Defensively, he has led the team in rebounding 14 times, which includes an active stretch of seven straight games.
He is no doubt Auburn’s most valuable player, but where does he rank among the best in the SEC? On3’s Jamie Shaw considers him to be in the top five.
Shaw released his updated SEC Player of the Year power rankings, and he placed Broome in the No. 4 slot this week behind Kentucky‘s Antonio Reeves, Alabama‘s Mark Sears, and Tennessee‘s Dalton Knecht.
Night in and night out, Johni Broome pads the stat book for his Auburn team. If he is not leading the Tigers in scoring, he is leading them in rebounds or blocked shots. He leads the No. 3 team in the SEC in all three categories. In fact, his 8.8 rebounds per game leads the entire SEC, and his 2.3 blocks are second. Auburn is sitting at 18-4 overall and 7-2 in the SEC right now, and Broome has been a constant factor all season long.
Broome is one of the top defensive players in the SEC. He leads the SEC in rebounds per game with 8.8 and is No. 2 in the SEC with 2.3 blocks per game. Offensively, his 56.3% field goal percentage is No. 2 in the conference behind Florida‘s Tyrese Samuel.
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