FAYETTEVILLE - SEC basketball coaches thrice honored Arkansas Razorbacks freshman guard Moses Moody and also honored Arkansas junior guard JD Notae among its All-SEC teams and individual awards announced Tuesday in Birmingham, Ala.
Moody was voted All-SEC first team, SEC Freshman of the Year and SEC All-Freshman team.
Junior transfer off the bench guard Notae was voted Sixth Man of the Year.
Both were huge in Coach Eric Musselman’s Razorbacks entering this week’s SEC Tournament ranked eighth in the nation concluding the regular season, 21-5 and 13-4 second in the SEC.
Moody, averaging a team leading 17.5 points per game, and 5.7 rebounds, ranks third in the SEC and third among all the nation’s freshmen in scoring and is one of just three NCAA freshmen averaging at least 15.0 points and 5.0 rebounds and one of only two SEC payers averaging above 16 points and 5.5 rebounds and one of three SEC players ranking in the league’s top 20 in scoring, rebounding, field goal percentage, free throw percentage and 3-point percentage.
Notae averaged 12.9 points, second on the team while coming off the bench, and seven times led the Razorbacks in assists.
For the final four games of Arkansas’ 11-game winning streak, Notate averaged15 points, 4.3 rebounds 2.8 assists and 3.0 steals over the final four games.
For SEC champion Alabama, Coach Nate Oats was named Coach of the Year; and forward Herbert Jones was voted SEC Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year.
Vanderbilt’s Dylan Disu was named SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year.
Below are the All SEC first and second teams, All-Freshman team and All-Defensive team.
2021 SEC HONORS (Coaches)
First Team All-SEC
Herbert Jones, Alabama
John Petty Jr., Alabama
Moses Moody, Arkansas
Tre Mann, Florida
Cameron Thomas, LSU
Devontae Shuler, Ole Miss
Dru Smith, Missouri
Scotty Pippen Jr., Vanderbilt
Second Team All-SEC
Jaden Shackelford, Alabama
Colin Castleton, Florida
Sahvir Wheeler, Georgia
Javonte Smart, LSU
Trendon Watford, LSU
D.J. Stewart Jr., Mississippi State
Jeremiah Tilmon, Missouri
AJ Lawson, South Carolina
All-Freshman Team
Joshua Primo, Alabama
Moses Moody, Arkansas
Sharife Cooper, Auburn
KD Johnson, Georgia
Isaiah Jackson, Kentucky
Cameron Thomas, LSU
Keon Johnson, Tennessee
Jaden Springer, Tennessee
All-Defensive Team
Herbert Jones, Alabama
Isaiah Jackson, Kentucky
Abdul Ado, Mississippi State
Dru Smith, Missouri
Yves Pons, Tennessee
Coach of the Year: Nate Oats, Alabama
Player of the Year: Herbert Jones, Alabama
Scholar-Athlete of the Year: Dylan Disu, Vanderbilt
Freshman of the Year: Moses Moody, Arkansas
Sixth-Man of the Year: JD Notae, Arkansas
Defensive Player of the Year: Herbert Jones, Alabama
