Defending national champion Florida was predicted to win the 2026 Southeastern Conference men’s basketball championship in voting by a select panel of both SEC and national media members.
Kentucky’s Otega Oweh was the choice of the media for SEC Men’s Basketball Player of the Year. Nate Ament (Tennessee), Alex Condon (Florida), Malik Dia (Ole Miss), Boogie Fland (Florida), Thomas Haugh (Florida), Josh Hubbard (Mississippi State), and Tahaad Pettiford (Auburn), also received votes in the Player of the Year voting.
Condon, Hubbard, Oweh, and Pettiford were each All-SEC First Team selections along with Alabama’s Labaron Philon. Ament, Fland and Haugh were joined on the second team by Tennessee’s Ja’Kobi Gillespie and Missouri’s Mark Mitchell. Dia along with Alabama’s Aden Holloway, Arkansas’ Karter Knox, Kentucky’s Jaland Lowe, and Arkansas’ D.J. Wagner were selected to the third team.
The 2025-26 campaign begins Monday, November 3, with conference play set to begin Saturday, January 3. The 2025 SEC Tournament will be March 11-15 at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn.
First Team All-SEC
Alex Condon – Florida
Josh Hubbard – Mississippi State
Otega Oweh – Kentucky
Tahaad Pettiford – Auburn
Labaron Philon Jr. – Alabama
Second Team All-SEC
Nate Ament – Tennessee
Boogie Fland – Florida
Ja’Kobi Gillespie – Tennessee
Thomas Haugh – Florida
Mark Mitchell – Missouri
Third Team All-SEC
Malik Dia – Ole Miss
Aden Holloway – Alabama
Karter Knox – Arkansas
Jaland Lowe – Kentucky
D.J. Wagner – Arkansas
SEC Player of the Year
Otega Oweh – Kentucky
Predicted Order Of Finish
1. Florida
2. Kentucky
3. Tennessee
4. Alabama
5. Arkansas
6. Auburn
7. Missouri
8. Ole Miss
9. Texas
10. Mississippi State
11. Vanderbilt
12. Oklahoma
13. Texas A&M
14. Georgia
15. LSU
16. South Carolina
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