Kentucky Wildcats guard Jaxson Robinson has been named to the media’s Preseason All-SEC Third Team, it was announced Monday.
Additionally, Kentucky was picked to finish eighth in the conference in what will be Year 1 of the Mark Pope era.
Robinson, a graduate transfer from BYU, was the 2023-24 Big 12 Sixth Man of the Year after leading the Cougars in scoring at 14.2 points per game on 42.6% shooting from the field and 35.4% from 3-point land. He was the first bench player in program history to lead the team in scoring.
Alabama’s Mark Sears was the pick for preseason SEC Men’s Basketball Player of the Year, while the Crimson Tide was predicted to finish atop the 2024-25 SEC standings.
2. Auburn Tigers
4. Arkansas Razorbacks
6. Florida Gators
8. Kentucky Wildcats
10. Mississippi State Bulldogs
11. South Carolina Gamecocks
12. Georgia Bulldogs
13. Missouri Tigers
14. LSU Tigers
15. Oklahoma Sooners
In other news, Kentucky was ranked No. 23 in the first AP Top 25 Poll of the 2024-25 college basketball season, which you can see here.
We’re learning more and more about the new Wildcats ahead of Kentucky‘s first season under Mark Pope. As the Blue-White Preseason Event and first exhibitio
Rick Barnes and John Calipari have been lifelong coaching friends, first meeting in 1975 while working together at a basketball camp at the University of Pitts
The unbelievably talented people with the UK Sports Video team have blessed us once again with an awesome montage of Mark Pope‘s first-ever Big Blue Madness.
While much of the focus about Mark Pope’s first Kentucky team has been about the backcourt, the Cats also appear to have the ability to be strong in the