Southeastern Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year
The Southeastern Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year is an award given to the most outstanding player in the Southeastern Conference (SEC). The school with the most SEC Player of the Year award winners is Kentucky, with 18 total awards. The only current SEC members that have never had a winner are Missouri and Texas A&M, the conference's two newest members.
Clyde Lee, Vanderbilt, 1965 and 1966
Pat Riley, Kentucky, 1966
Ron Widby, Tennessee, 1967
Pete Maravich, LSU, 1968 through 1970
The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is an American college athletic conference whose member institutions are located primarily in the South Central and Southeastern United States. Its fourteen members include the flagship public universities of ten states, three additional public land-grant universities, and one private research university. The conference is headquartered in Birmingham, Alabama. The SEC participates in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I in sports competitions; for football it is part of the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), formerly known as Division I-A.
Bobby Grier playing against the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets in 1955