Nov. 9, 2011
The Commodores’ Festus Ezeli, John Jenkins, and Jeffery Taylor were named to the men’s basketball coaches All-SEC Preseason first team in an announcement made by the SEC on Wednesday. Vanderbilt was the only team with three players on the first team.
The coaches’ honors go along with media recognition the three received during SEC Media Days on October 27. Jenkins and Taylor made the media’s first team, while Ezeli was named to the second team.
Thirty-two different players received votes for the teams and nine different schools are represented on the preseason squads.
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.
The complete list is as follows:
FIRST TEAM ALL-SEC
Dee Bost, Mississippi State
Kenny Boynton, Florida
Festus Ezeli, Vanderbilt
JaMychal Green, Alabama
John Jenkins, Vanderbilt
Terrence Jones, Kentucky
Jeffery Taylor, Vanderbilt
Erving Walker, Florida
SECOND TEAM ALL-SEC
Reginald Buckner, Ole Miss
Doron Lamb, Kentucky
Darius Miller, Kentucky
Tony Mitchell, Alabama
Marshawn Powell, Arkansas
Trevor Releford, Alabama
Gerald Robinson, Georgia
Renardo Sidney, Mississippi State
Patric Young, Florida
