TILMON NAMED PRESEASON SECOND TEAM ALL-SEC

Mizzou junior forward Jeremiah Tilmon, Junior, was selected preseason second-team All-SEC in a vote among the league’s coaches. It’s the first preseason league of his career. Tilmon averaged 10.1 points and 5.9 rebounds last season. The 6-foot-10, 260-pound forward blocked a team-leading 25 shots, while shooting better tha 54 percent from the field. He joins Ricardo Ratliffe as the only Tigers in the past three decades to shoot above 54 percent in back-to-back seasons. Tilmon was also one of 20 players in the nation named to the preseason watch list for the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar National Center of the Year Award last month. The 2019-20 season officially tips off this week for Mizzou with a pair of home games against Incarnate Word Wednesday and Northern Kentucky Friday.

A full list of the 2020 SEC Men’s Basketball Coaches Preseason All-SEC team follows:

First Team All-SEC

Kira Lewis Jr.- Alabama

Kerry Blackshear- Florida

Andrew Mebhard- Florida

Anthony Edwards- Georgia

Ashton Hagans- Kentucky

Skylar Mays- LSU

Breein Tyree- Ole Miss

Reggie Perry- Mississippi State

A.J. Lawson- South Carolina

Second Team All-SEC

Isaiah Joe- Arkansas

Austin Wiley- Auburn

Tyrese Maxey- Kentucky

EJ Montgomery- Kentucky

Javonte Smart- LSU

Devontae Shuler- Ole Miss

Jeremiah Tilmon Jr.- Missouri

Jordan Bowden- Tennessee

Lamonté Turner- Tennessee

Savion Flagg- Texas A&M

Aaron Nesmith- Vanderbilt