The 2009–10 Southeastern Conference men's basketball season began with practices on October 17, 2009, and ended with the

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(SEC) Tournament on March 11–14, 2010 at the

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Pre-season polls and teams

2009–10 SEC Men's Basketball Pre-Season Poll: Pre-Season All-SEC Teams *SEC Coaches select 8 players *Players in bold are choices for SEC Player of the Year

Rankings

Conference tournament

Head coaches

Post season

NCAA tournament

National Invitation Tournament

Highlights and notes

;2010 Big East/SEC Invitational ;Players of the week Throughout the conference regular season, the SEC offices named a player of the week each Monday. ;Award Finalists Notes: *

Bob Cousy Award The Bob Cousy Award, sponsored by the College of the Holy Cross, is an annual basketball award given by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame to the top men's collegiate point guard. It is named after six-time National Basketball Assoc ...

: The

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, on Feb. 4, 2010 announced the final 11 candidates in consideration for the 2010

presented by The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. This annual award is given to college basketball's top point guard and is named after Hall of Famer and former

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guard

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. An original list of 73 candidates made up of players from Division I, II and III schools was trimmed by a Hall of Fame appointed, nationally based committee to 20 and has now narrowed that list to a final 11. Devan Downey (South Carolina) and

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(Kentucky) were among the 11 finalists. *

Oscar Robertson Trophy The Oscar Robertson Trophy is given out annually to the most outstanding NCAA Division I men's basketball player by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association (USBWA), first presented in 1958–59 NCAA University Division men's basketball season, 19 ...

: Three SEC players were among the 16 announced finalists for the 2010 Oscar Robertson Trophy, to be presented to the U.S. Basketball Writers Association's national player of the year. Included among the SEC's candidates are: Kentucky's

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, South Carolina's Devan Downey and Kentucky's

Awards and honors

All-Americans

All SEC teams and awards

The following individuals received postseason honors after having been chosen by the SEC coaches:

All-Academic

USBWA All-District team

References

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