Media picks LSU as SEC women’s basketball favorite

Birmingham, Ala. – LSU is predicted to win the 2024 Southeastern Conference women’s basketball championship in a vote of a select panel of both SEC and national media members.

The reigning NCAA Champion Tigers return All-American Angel Reese, SEC Freshman of the Year Flau’Jae Johnson, SEC All-Freshmen team member Sa’Myah Smith and other key contributors like Last-Tear Poa and Kateri Poole. LSU also brought in the top two players from the transfer portal in All-Americans Hailey Van Lith from Louisville and Aneesah Morrow from DePaul.

LSU tops the order of finish, with South Carolina, Tennessee, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Arkansas and Georgia rounding out the top half the league. Texas A&M, Alabama, Florida, Missouri, Auburn, Kentucky and Vanderbilt round out the bottom half.

LSU’s All-American Angel Reese is the media’s choice for SEC Women’s Basketball Player of the Year. Her teammate Van Lith as well as Tennessee’s Rickea Jackson and Ole Miss’ Madison Scott also received votes.

Joining Reese, Van Lith and Jackson on the All-SEC first team are LSU’s Flau’Jae Johnson and South Carolina’s Kamila Cardoso.

Enough players received votes to field a second team. Those members are Anneesah Morrow, LSU; Madison Scott, Ole Miss; Jessika Carter, Mississippi State; Jewel Spear, Tennessee; Aicha Coulibaly, Texas A&M and Jordyn Cambridge, Vanderbilt.

SEC Player of the Year

 Angel Reese, LSU

Preseason All-SEC First-Team

Flau’Jae Johnson, LSU

Angel Reese, LSU

Hailey Van Lith, LSU

Kamilla Cardoso, South Carolina

Rickea Jackson, Tennessee

Preseason All-SEC Second-Team

Anneesah Morrow, LSU

Madison Scott, Ole Miss

Jessika Carter, Mississippi State

Jewel Spear, Tennessee

Aicha Coulibaly, Texas A&M

Jordyn Cambridge, Vanderbilt