The SEC already put out its preseason poll and Player of the Year award a couple of weeks back. Kentucky is the unanimous choice to win the league, and Arkansas' Moses Kingsley -- that's right, not a Kentucky player -- won the SEC's preseason MVP award, so to speak.

But what about the All-SEC honorees? With one day until the season starts, now we know. The league put forth its team on Thursday, and I've gotta say, this is all so silly. It's an eight-person team.

You field a basketball team with five guys.

Stop the nonsense and just make the tough choices to get it to five.

Nevertheless, here are the eight players who comprise the SEC's First Team.

Moses Kingsley, Arkansas

J.J. Frazier, Georgia

Yante Maten, Georgia

Bam Adebayo, Kentucky

De'Aaron Fox, Kentucky

Quinndary Weatherspoon, Mississippi State

Sindarius Thornwell, South Carolina

Tyler Davis, Texas A&M

The players were voted on by coaches from within the league, and coaches could not vote on their own players. Kentucky also got recognition on the second team, as Isaiah Briscoe and Malik Monk earned a spot there.

Adebayo, Monk, Kingsley and Fox are all ranked in the top 20 of our Top 100 (and one) players in college basketball.



Weatherspoon is an under-the-radar stud, for sure. Davis might become a top-five big man in college hoops this year. Thornwell will try to push South Carolina into the NCAAs. Frazier and Maten are a dynamic inside-out combo which, in the eyes of many, will have Georgia in the top four of the SEC.

