2011–12 Southeastern Conference men's basketball season

2011–12 SEC Men's Basketball Season
League	NCAA Division I
Sport	Basketball
Number of teams	12
TV partner(s)	CBS, ESPN, FSN
Regular Season
2012 SEC Champions	Kentucky
Season MVP	Anthony Davis, Kentucky
SEC Tournament
Champions	Vanderbilt
Runners-up	Kentucky
Finals MVP	John Jenkins, Vanderbilt
Basketball seasons
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2011–12 Southeastern Conference men's basketball standings
v t	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
No. 1 Kentucky	16	–	0		1.000			38	–	2		.950
No. 25 Florida	10	–	6		.625			26	–	11		.703
No. 20 Vanderbilt †	10	–	6		.625			25	–	11		.694
Tennessee	10	–	6		.625			19	–	15		.559
Alabama	9	–	7		.563			21	–	12		.636
Mississippi State	8	–	8		.500			21	–	12		.636
Ole Miss	8	–	8		.500			20	–	14		.588
LSU	7	–	9		.438			18	–	15		.545
Arkansas	6	–	10		.375			18	–	14		.563
Auburn	5	–	11		.313			15	–	16		.484
Georgia	5	–	11		.313			15	–	17		.469
South Carolina	2	–	14		.125			10	–	21		.323
† 2012 SEC Tournament winner As of April 2, 2012; Rankings from AP Poll

The 2011–12 Southeastern Conference men's basketball season began with practices on October 15, 2011 and ended with the SEC Tournament on March 8–11, 2012 at the New Orleans Arena in New Orleans.

This was the first season for the SEC's one-division alignment in men's basketball. The league's head coaches voted at the league's annual meeting on June 1, 2011 to eliminate the divisional format, starting with the 2011–12 season.^[1]

Pre-season polls and teams[]

Pre-Season Poll:

	SEC Media[2]
1.	Kentucky (18)
2.	Vanderbilt (4)
3.	Florida (1)
4.	Alabama
5.	Mississippi State
6.	Arkansas
7.	Ole Miss
8.	Georgia
9.	LSU
10.	Auburn
11.	Tennessee
12.	South Carolina

Pre-Season All-SEC Teams

SEC Media[3]	SEC Coaches
Dee Bost Mississippi State JaMychal Green Alabama John Jenkins Vanderbilt Terrence Jones Kentucky Jeffery Taylor Vanderbilt

• SEC Coaches select 8 players
• Players in bold are choices for SEC Player of the Year

Rankings[]

Legend

		Increase in ranking
		Decrease in ranking
		Not ranked previous week

		Pre	Wk 2	Wk 3	Wk 4	Wk 5	Wk 6	Wk 7	Wk 8	Wk 9	Wk 10	Wk 11	Wk 12	Wk 13	Wk 14	Wk 15	Wk 16	Wk 17	Wk 18	Wk 19	Final
Alabama	AP	17	16	13	12	16	23	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV
	C	15	21	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV
Arkansas	AP										RV
	C
Auburn	AP
	C
Florida	AP	8	7	10	10	12	13	11	10	13	19	17	14	12	8	14	12	16	22	25
	C	10	8	9	9	12	13	12	10	14	19	14	13	11	7	12	11	13	19	21	9
Georgia	AP
	C
Kentucky	AP	2	2	2	1	1	3	3	3	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
	C	2	2	2	1	1	3	3	3	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
LSU	AP
	C
Mississippi State	AP			24	21	17	17	18	15	15	20	18	18	22	20	RV
	C			RV	24	18	16	17	14	16	20	15	16	19	18	23		RV	RV
Ole Miss	AP
	C
South Carolina	AP
	C
Tennessee	AP
	C
Vanderbilt	AP	7	18	18	20	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	25	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	20
	C	7	20	22	19	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV	RV		RV	RV	RV	24	19

Conference schedules[]

Composite Matrix[]

This table summarizes the head-to-head results between teams in conference play. (x) indicates games remaining this season.

	Alabama	Arkansas	Auburn	Florida	Georgia	Kentucky	LSU	Mississippi State	Ole Miss	South Carolina	Tennessee	Vanderbilt
vs. Alabama	–	0–2	0–2	1–0	0–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	1–0
vs. Arkansas	2–0	–	0–2	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–1	2–0	0–1	1–0	0–1
vs. Auburn	2–0	2–0	–	1–0	0–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	0–1	1–0	1–0
vs. Florida	0–1	0–1	0–1	–	1–1	2–0	0–1	0–1	0–1	0–2	2–0	1–1
vs. Georgia	1–0	0–1	1–0	1–1	–	2–0	1–0	0–1	1–0	2–0	1–1	2–0
vs. Kentucky	0–1	0–1	0–1	0–2	0–2	–	0–1	0–1	0–1	0–2	0–2	0–2
vs. LSU	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	1–0	–	1–1	1–1	0–1	1–0	1–0
vs. Mississippi State	1–1	1–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	1–1	–	1–1	0–1	0–1	0–1
vs. Ole Miss	1–1	0–2	1–1	1–0	0–1	1–0	1–1	1–1	–	0–1	1–0	1–0
vs. South Carolina	0–1	1–0	1–0	2–0	0–2	2–0	1–0	1–0	1–0	–	2–0	2–0
vs. Tennessee	1–0	0–1	0–1	0–2	1–1	2–0	0–1	1–0	0–1	0–2	–	1–1
vs. Vanderbilt	0–1	1–0	0–1	1–1	0–2	2–0	0–1	1–0	0–1	0–2	1–1	–
Total	9–7	6–10	5–11	10–6	5–11	16–0	7–9	8–8	8–8	2–14	10–6	10–6

Postseason[]

SEC Tournament[]

Session	Game	Time*	Matchup#	Television	Attendance
First Round - Thursday, March 8
1	1	12:00 PM	#8 LSU vs. #9 Arkansas	SEC Network
	2	2:30 PM	#5 Alabama vs. #12 South Carolina	SEC Network
2	3	6:30 PM	#7 Ole Miss vs. #10 Auburn	SEC Network
	4	9:00 PM	#6 Mississippi State vs. #11 Georgia	SEC Network
Quarterfinals - Friday, March 9
3	5	12:00 PM	#1 Kentucky vs. #8 LSU	SEC Network
	6	2:30 PM	#4 Florida vs. #5 Alabama	SEC Network
4	7	6:30 PM	#2 Tennessee vs. #7 Ole Miss	SEC Network
	8	9:00 PM	#3 Vanderbilt vs. #11 Georgia	SEC Network
Semifinals - Saturday, March 10
5	9	12:00 PM	#1 Kentucky vs. #4 Florida	ABC
	10	2:30 PM	#7 Ole Miss vs. #3 Vanderbilt	ABC
Championship Game - Sunday, March 11
6	11	12:00 PM	#1 Kentucky vs. #3 Vanderbilt	ABC
*Game Times in CT[1]. #-Rankings denote tournament seeding.

NCAA Tournament[]

Seed	Region	School	First Four	Second Round	Third Round	Sweet 16	Elite Eight	Final Four	Championship
1	South	Kentucky		#16 WKU - W, 81–66	#8 Iowa State - W, 87–71	#4 Indiana - W, 102–90	#3 Baylor - W, 82–70	#4 Louisville – W, 69-61	#2 Kansas - W, 67-59
7	West	Florida		#10 Virginia – W, 71-45	#15 Norfolk State – W, 84-50	#3 Marquette - W, 68-58	#4 Louisville - L, 68-72
5	East	Vanderbilt		#12 Harvard – W, 79–70	#4 Wisconsin – L, 57-60
9	Midwest	Alabama		#8 Creighton – L, 57-58

National Invitation Tournament[]

# of Bids	Record	Win %	R2	R3	SF	CG
4	1–4	.200	1	0	0	0

Team	Bid Type	Seed	Results
Tennessee	At-large	1	W 65-51 vs. 8 Savannah State L 64-71 vs. 4 Middle Tennessee
Ole Miss	At-large	2	L 93-96 (OT) vs. 7 Illinois State
Mississippi State	At-large	4	L 96-101 (2OT) vs. 5 UMass
LSU	At-large	6	L 74-96 vs. 3 Oregon

Other tournaments[]

2012 NBA Draft[]

The following 1st & 2nd team All-SEC performers were listed as seniors: Dee Bost, Jeffery Taylor, JaMychal Green, Erving Walker, . The deadline for entering the NBA draft is April 29, but once one has declared, the deadline for withdrawing the declaration and retaining NCAA eligibility is April 10.^[4] The deadline for submitting information to the NBA Advisory Committee for a 72-hour response is April 3.^[5]

The following SEC underclassmen have sought the advice of the NBA's undergraduate advisory committee to determine his draft prospects:

The following SEC underclassmen declared early for the 2011 draft: Renardo Sidney,^[6] Justin Hamilton^[7] Arnett Moultrie,^[8] B. J. Young,^[8] John Jenkins,^[9] Bradley Beal,^[10] Anthony Davis,^[11] Michael Kidd-Gilchrist,^[11] Marquis Teague,^[11] Terrence Jones^[11] and Doron Lamb^[11]

The following SEC underclassmen entered their name in the draft but who did not hire agents and opted to return to college: B. J. Young^[12]

Round	Pick	Player	Position	Nationality	Team	School/club team
1	1	Anthony Davis	PF	United States	New Orleans Hornets	Kentucky (Fr.)
1	2	Michael Kidd-Gilchrist	SF	United States	Charlotte Bobcats	Kentucky (Fr.)
1	3	Bradley Beal	SG	United States	Washington Wizards	Florida (Fr.)
1	18	Terrence Jones	PF	United States	Houston Rockets	Kentucky (So.)
1	23	John Jenkins	SG	United States	Atlanta Hawks	Vanderbilt (Jr.)
1	27	Arnett Moultrie	PF	United States	Miami Heat	Mississippi St. (Jr.)
1	29	Marquis Teague	PG	United States	Chicago Bulls	Kentucky (Fr.)
1	30	Festus Ezeli	C	Nigeria	Golden State Warriors	Vanderbilt (Sr.)
2	31	Jeffery Taylor	SF	Sweden	Charlotte Bobcats	Vanderbilt (Sr.)
2	42	Doron Lamb	SG	United States	Milwaukee Bucks	Kentucky (So.)
2	45	Justin Hamilton	C	United States	Philadelphia 76ers	LSU (Jr.)
2	46	Darius Miller	SF	United States	New Orleans Hornets	Kentucky (Sr.)

Awards and honors[]

Player-of-the-Week[]

All-Americans[]

Starting on March 6, the 2012 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans were released for 2011–12 season, based upon selections by the four major syndicates. The four syndicates include the Associated Press, USBWA, NABC, and Sporting News

All-SEC awards and teams[]

Voting was by conference coaches:

2012 SEC Men's Basketball Individual Awards[13]
Award	Recipient(s)
Player of the Year	Anthony Davis, C., KENTUCKY
Coach of the Year	John Calipari, KENTUCKY
Defensive Player of the Year	Anthony Davis, C., KENTUCKY
Rookie of the Year	Anthony Davis, C., KENTUCKY
Scholar-Athlete of the Year	Patric Young, F., FLORIDA
Sixth Man Award	Darius Miller, F., KENTUCKY

2012 All-SEC Men's Basketball Teams[13]
First Team	Second Team	All-Freshman Team	All-Defensive Team
Bradley Beal Fr., G, FLORIDA Dee Bost Sr., G, MISS STATE Kenny Boynton Jr., G, FLORIDA Anthony Davis Fr., C, KENTUCKY John Jenkins Jr., G, VANDERBILT Michael Kidd-Gilchrist Fr., F, KENTUCKY Arnett Moultrie Sr., F, MISSISSIPPI STATE Jeffery Taylor Sr., F, VANDERBILT	JaMychal Green Sr., F, ALABAMA Justin Hamilton Jr., F, LSU Terrance Henry Jr., F, OLE MISS Terrence Jones So., F, KENTUCKY Doron Lamb So., G, KENTUCKY Jeronne Maymon So., F, TENNESSEE Trevor Releford So., G, ALABAMA Erving Walker Sr., G, FLORIDA B. J. Young Fr., G, ARKANSAS	Bradley Beal, G., FLORIDA Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, G., GEORGIA Anthony Davis, F., KENTUCKY Anthony Hickey, G., LSU Rodney Hood, F., MISS STATE Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, F., KENTUCKY Jarnell Stokes, F., TENNESSEE B. J. Young, G., ARKANSAS	Reginald Buckner, F., OLE MISS Anthony Davis, F., KENTUCKY Damontre Harris, F., SOUTH CAROLINA Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, F., KENTUCKY Jeffery Taylor, F., VANDERBILT
† - denotes unanimous selection

All-Academic[]

First Team:

Player, School	Year	GPA	Major

Second Team:

Player, School	Year	GPA	Major

USBWA All-District team[]

On March 6, the U.S. Basketball Writers Association released its 2011–12 Men's All-District Teams, based on voting from its national membership. There were nine regions from coast to coast, and a player and coach of the year were selected in each. The following lists all the SEC representatives selected within their respective regions. (Note bold represents player of the year within that district)^[14]

References[]