Dalton Knecht headlines SEC’s individual honors for 2023-24 season

Dalton Knecht delivered a monumental season for Tennessee, and the Vols’ star was honored with the SEC’s top honor.

On Monday, the SEC released the full list of individual honors for the season with Knecht taking home the SEC Player of the Year award. In a season full of star performances that includes Alabama’s Mark Sears and Kentucky’s Antonio Reeves, Knecht goes down as the league’s top player.

2024 #SECMBB Player of the Year

? Dalton Knecht, @Vol_Hoops

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— Southeastern Conference (@SEC) March 11, 2024

This season, Knecht led the SEC in scoring at 21.4 points per game. He started all 31 games while also averaging 4.8 rebounds and 1.8 assists.

Knecht capped the regular season with 40 points in a home loss to Kentucky, a new career-high. He is the first Vol to receive POTY honors since Grant Williams in 2019. To no surprise, Knecht also received SDS’s vote for the league’s POTY.

Now, Knecht and the Vols will head to the SEC Basketball Tournament as the No. 1 seed and in search of a 1-seed in the Big Dance. Fans can track all the latest postseason odds with SDS’s Tennessee online sportsbooks.

The rest of the All-SEC honors

Here are the rest of the individual honors within the SEC, including an obvious choice for the Coach of the Year:

• Coach of the Year: Lamont Paris, South Carolina
• Player of the Year: Dalton Knecht, Tennessee
• Scholar-Athlete of the Year: Sean East II, Missouri
• Freshman of the Year: Reed Sheppard, Kentucky
• Sixth-Man of the Year: Rob Dillingham, Kentucky
• Defensive Player of the Year: Zakai Zeigler, Tennessee

First Team All-SEC

• Mark Sears, Alabama
• Johni Broome, Auburn
• Zyon Pullin, Florida
• Antonio Reeves, Kentucky
• Tolu Smith III, Mississippi State
• Dalton Knecht, Tennessee
• Zakai Zeigler, Tennessee
• Wade Taylor IV, Texas A&M

Second Team All-SEC

• Jaylin Williams, Auburn
• Walter Clayton Jr., Florida
• Rob Dillingham, Kentucky
• Reed Sheppard, Kentucky
• Matthew Murrell, Ole Miss
• Josh Hubbard, Mississippi State
• Ta’Lon Cooper, South Carolina
• Meechie Johnson, South Carolina
• Jonas Aidoo, Tennessee

All-Defensive Team

• Johni Broome, Auburn
• Cameron Matthews, Mississippi State
• Jonas Aidoo, Tennessee
• Zakai Zeigler, Tennessee
• Andersson Garcia, Texas A&M

All-Freshman Team

• Aden Holloway, Auburn
• Alex Condon, Florida
• Silas Demary Jr., Georgia
• Rob Dillingham, Kentucky
• Reed Sheppard, Kentucky
• D.J. Wagner, Kentucky
• Josh Hubbard, Mississippi State
• Collin Murray-Boyles, South Carolina

Paul Harvey

Paul Harvey lives in Atlanta and covers SEC football.