NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Vanderbilt men’s basketball sophomore Scotty Pippen Jr. was named first-team All-SEC while sophomore Dylan Disu earned SEC Scholar-Athlete of the Year accolades, as announced by the conference office Tuesday. Pippen also earned first-team All-SEC honors from the Associated Press.
Pippen is second in the SEC with 20.6 points per game and 4.9 assists per game. He owns the highest scoring average of any sophomore in the nation and, entering the postseason, it ranks eighth-best in school history, highest for any Commodore since 2000 and tops for any sophomore in program history.
Pippen has scored at least 20 points 10 times and 30 points three times, including a career-high 36 on Thursday at Cincinnati. But he has shared the ball at a record-rate as the first Commodore in five years with 5+ assists in four straight games and is the first Commodore since 2000 with eight or more assists in back-to-back games.
He was also the first Commodore since 2005 with 12 assists in a game as well as the first Commodore since 2015 to record a double-double with points and assists.
A human and organizational development major, Disu holds a 3.538 grade-point average at Vanderbilt. In 17 games this season, Disu led the SEC with 9.2 rebounds per game and was second on the team with 15 points per game in addition to a team-high .492 field goal percentage.
Disu, who finished with six double-doubles this season and was the first Commodore with back-to-back double-doubles since 2018, finished the 2020 spring semester with a 4.0 and has recorded a 3.2 GPA or better in every semester at Vanderbilt.
Vanderbilt begins the SEC Tournament against Texas A&M at 6 p.m. on Wednesday. The winner will play Florida in the second game of the conference quarterfinals Thursday. Both games can be seen on SEC Network.
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
