Jan. 21, 2015
Former Vanderbilt forward Bruce Elder has been tabbed as the Commodores’ 2015 Allstate® SEC Basketball Legend. Elder and representatives from the other 13 league schools will be honored at the SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament March 11-15 at Bridgestone Arena. Team representatives will be recognized at halftime of their school’s first game.
A co-captain on Vanderbilt’s 1993 SEC championship team that reached as high as No. 5 in the Associated Press poll, Elder earned All-SEC honors and was college basketball’s Academic Player of the Year that same season. Elder finished his Vanderbilt career with 1,086 points and lettered from 1991-93.
This is the 17th year of the SEC Basketball Legends program. In addition to Elder, the 2015 honorees include: C.M. Newton, Alabama; Darrell Walker, Arkansas; Chris Porter, Auburn; Eddie Shannon, Florida; Jacky Dorsey, Georgia; Bob Burrow, Kentucky; Ronald Dupree, LSU; B.L. “Country” Graham, Ole Miss; Doug Hutton, Mississippi State; Derrick Chievous, Missouri; Jack Thompson, South Carolina; Johnny Darden, Tennessee; Sonny Parker, Texas A&M.
“The Allstate® SEC Basketball Legends Program allows us to honor our past and show everyone why the SEC is one of the nation’s premier basketball conferences,” said SEC Commissioner Mike Slive.
Selected legends will appear at the Sunkist Soda SEC FanFare, which will be open Thursday-Saturday of the tournament.
Last year’s Vanderbilt representative was Matt Freije.
