The second-place Alabama Crimson Tide basketball team not only has a case for the best team in all of college basketball, they also have one of the best players in all of college basketball.
Freshman Brandon Miller, a 6-foot-9 winger from Antioch, Tennessee, has taken the college basketball world by storm this season, leading the Crimson Tide to his 17-2 start to the season. Additionally, Miller leads Alabama with 19.8 points per game and is the second-best rebounder with 8.3 points per contest.
Those numbers have made him a standout player in the Southeastern Conference. Miller’s numbers rank him first in the SEC for scoring and fourth in the SEC for rebounding.
While Miller seems to be a frontrunner, it’s not often that a freshman wins the SEC Player of the Year. The last freshman to win the award was Kentucky’s Malik Monk in 2017, but he was named Co-Player of the Year along with South Carolina’s Sindarius Thornwell.
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The last freshman to directly win the award was Anthony Davis of Kentucky in 2012.
One of Miller’s biggest contenders for the award is also from Kentucky, forward Oscar Tshiebwe, last year’s winner. Tshiebwe has been a force averaging over 16 points and 14 rebounds per game this year, and his stock will only rise if Kentucky seems to have gotten their season back on track.
Additionally, Arkansas’ Ricky Council IV has strong arguments as one of the league’s top scorers, but his stock has slipped as Arkansas struggled early in conference play.
Watch the video above as BamaCentral’s Blake Byler and Austin Hannon discuss who the favorites are for SEC Player of the Year.
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