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

Southeastern Conference The Southeastern Conference (SEC) is an American college athletic conference whose member institutions are located primarily in the South Central and Southeastern United States. Its fourteen members include the flagship public universities of ...

(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 presented by The College of the Holy Cross (or Bob Cousy Collegiate Point Guard of the Year Award) is an annual basketball award given by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame to the top men's collegiate point guard. ...

: 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

Bob Cousy Robert Joseph Cousy (, born August 9, 1928) is an American former professional basketball player. Cousy played point guard for the Boston Celtics from 1950 to 1963, and briefly with the Cincinnati Royals during the 1969–70 season. A 13-time N ...

. 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 Devan Deangelo Downey (born September 28, 1987) is an American professional basketball player. Amateur career He was born in Chester, South Carolina where he attended Chester High School. Named S.C. Class AAA Player of the Year and Mr. Basketb ...

(South Carolina) and

John Wall Johnathan Hildred Wall Jr. (born September 6, 1990) is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). A Raleigh, North Carolina native, Wall was chosen with the List of firs ...

(Kentucky) were among the 11 finalists. *

Oscar Robertson Trophy The Oscar Robertson Trophy is given out annually to the outstanding men's college basketball player by the United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA). The trophy is considered to be the oldest of its kind and has been given out since 195 ...

: 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

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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