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Media picks LSU as SEC women's basketball favorite – Southeastern Conference
Birmingham, Ala. – LSU is predicted to win the 2024 Southeastern Conference women’s basketball championship in a vote of a select panel of both SEC and national media members.
The reigning NCAA Champion Tigers return All-American Angel Reese, SEC Freshman of the Year Flau’Jae Johnson, SEC All-Freshmen team member Sa’Myah Smith and other key contributors like Last-Tear Poa and Kateri Poole. LSU also brought in the top two players from the transfer portal in All-Americans Hailey Van Lith from Louisville and Aneesah Morrow from DePaul.
LSU tops the order of finish, with South Carolina, Tennessee, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Arkansas and Georgia rounding out the top half the league. Texas A&M, Alabama, Florida, Missouri, Auburn, Kentucky and Vanderbilt round out the bottom half.
LSU’s All-American Angel Reese is the media’s choice for SEC Women’s Basketball Player of the Year. Her teammate Van Lith as well as Tennessee’s Rickea Jackson and Ole Miss’ Madison Scott also received votes.
Joining Reese, Van Lith and Jackson on the All-SEC first team are LSU’s Flau’Jae Johnson and South Carolina’s Kamila Cardoso.
Enough players received votes to field a second team. Those members are Anneesah Morrow, LSU; Madison Scott, Ole Miss; Jessika Carter, Mississippi State; Jewel Spear, Tennessee; Aicha Coulibaly, Texas A&M and Jordyn Cambridge, Vanderbilt.
SEC Player of the Year
Preseason All-SEC First-Team
Flau’Jae Johnson, LSU
Angel Reese, LSU
Hailey Van Lith, LSU
Kamilla Cardoso, South Carolina
Rickea Jackson, Tennessee
Preseason All-SEC Second-Team
Anneesah Morrow, LSU
Madison Scott, Ole Miss
Jessika Carter, Mississippi State
Jewel Spear, Tennessee
Aicha Coulibaly, Texas A&M
Jordyn Cambridge, Vanderbilt