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Varnado AP First-Team All-SEC
by bradlocke
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Mississippi State senior Jarvis Varnado was named first-team All-SEC by the Associated Press this afternoon. He was joined on the five-man squad by Kentucky’s DeMarcus Cousins and John Wall, South Carolina’s Devan Downey, and Georgia’s Trey Thompkins.

Varnado was also named first team by the coaches last week (an eight-man squad). Also, sophomore point guard Dee Bost earned AP honorable mention. The list in full (u=unanimous selection):

First team

u-DeMarcus Cousins, Kentucky, F, 6-11, Fr.

u-Devan Downey, South Carolina, G, 5-9, Sr.

u-John Wall, Kentucky, G, 6-4, Fr.

Jarvis Varnado, Mississippi State, F-C, 6-9, Sr.

Trey Thompkins, Georgia, F, 6-10, So.

Second team

Patrick Patterson, Kentucky, F, 6-9, Jr.

Chris Warren, Ole Miss, G, 5-10, Jr.

Jermaine Beal, Vanderbilt, G, 6-3, Sr.

Tasmin Mitchell, LSU, F, 6-7, Sr.

Wayne Chism, Tennessee, F-C, 6-9, Sr.

Honorable mention

Jeffery Taylor, Vanderbilt, G-F, 6-7, So.

A.J. Ogilvy, Vanderbilt, C, 6-11, Jr.

Courtney Fortson, Arkansas, G, 5-11, So.

Dee Bost, Mississippi St., G, 6-2, So.

Mikhail Torrance, Alabama, G, 6-5, Sr.

Individual awards

Player of the Year: John Wall, Kentucky

Coach of the Year: John Calipari, Kentucky

Newcomer of the Year: John Wall, Kentucky

comments (4)
« bradlocke wrote on Tuesday, Mar 16 at 03:31 PM »
ezfreeze: Those ballots aren't made public, or made known to other media. Sorry. I imagine Patterson and Beal stole a few of his votes.
« ezfreeze wrote on Tuesday, Mar 16 at 09:18 AM »
dawgfan823, I was thinking the exact same thing...

Seems like the whole Tebow vote all over again... BL, can you find out who did not vote JV for first team?
« jfairley wrote on Monday, Mar 15 at 09:33 PM »
The problem is he's not at UK and not responsible for leading his team to a win against UK. Nothing against the big blue. If I watch any of the tourney this year it'll be to watch them. My frustration comes from national media in general for consistently recognizing only perennial winners and teams that manage to beat the perennial winners... Though, I'm actually surprised though that he was so highly recognized given SC's record. That's usually the opposite of what I expect of awards. (See the Heisman Trophy)
« dawgfan823 wrote on Monday, Mar 15 at 05:46 PM »
I am having a hard time believing that the all-time leading shot blocker was not a unanimous selection.