With the regular season concluded today, the SEC announced the award winners for the conference, and some Wildcats did take home some hardware. Otega Oweh was named to the All-SEC Second Team, and Malachi Moreno was on the All-Freshman Team.
Big Blue Nation has taken to social media to protest the fact that Oweh was not on the All-SEC First Team. I pulled his numbers for SEC play, and they are quite impressive. In SEC play, Oweh averaged 21.1 points per game, 4.5 rebounds, 2.7 assists, and 1.8 steals. He shot 48% (132-276) from the field and 37% (27-73) from three.
Oweh did have a slow start to the season, which is why his season average only sit at 18.2 points per game, but over the last handful of non-conference games and in just about every SEC game, Oweh was incredible.
The All-SEC First Team included Arkansas Darius Acuff Jr., Thomas Haugh of Florida, Labaron Philon Jr. of Alabama, Tyler Tanner from Vanderbilt, and Ja’Kobi Gillespie from Tennessee. Four of these players should have, without question, made this team over Oweh, but Gillespie is the name that has fans so angry…