COLLEGE STATION – The Southeastern Conference unveiled its 11th annual men's basketball coaches' preseason All-SEC selections Thursday with Texas A&M junior guard Alex Caruso being named to the second team.
Emerging as one of the SEC's top playmakers a year ago, Caruso led the league in total assists (170), assists per game (5.0) and total steals (6.9) while also seeing his scoring average jump from 5.5 points per game as a freshman in 2012-13 to 9.0 last season.
The coaches' preseason All-SEC first and second teams consist of a minimum of eight players on each squad, voted on by the SEC Head Men's Basketball Coaches. No ties were broken and no predicted order of finish was made.
All 14 SEC teams officially tip-off the 2014-15 campaign this weekend, beginning with 11 teams hitting the court Friday night. Conference play is set to begin on January 6 and the 2015 SEC Tournament will be March 11-15 at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn.
Caruso and the Aggies hit the court for their first official game of the new campaign Friday when they host Northwestern State in a 7 p.m. contest inside Reed Arena.
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A list of the 2015 SEC Men's Basketball Coaches Preseason All-SEC team follows:
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FIRST TEAM ALL-SEC
Dorian Finney-Smith – Florida
Michael Frazier II – Florida
Aaron Harrison – Kentucky
Andrew Harrison – Kentucky
Damian Jones – Vanderbilt
Charles Mann – Georgia
Jordan Mickey – LSU
Bobby Portis – Arkansas
Jarvis Summers – Ole Miss
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SECOND TEAM ALL-SEC
Alex Caruso – Texas A&M
Willie Cauley-Stein – Kentucky
KT Harrell – Auburn
Jarell Martin – LSU
Alex Poythress – Kentucky
Josh Richardson – Tennessee
Sindarius Thornwell – South Carolina
Karl-Anthony Towns – Kentucky