Thomas Newcomer, 1st Team; Watford, Smart on USA Today Network Squad

BATON ROUGE – It is Southeastern Conference Tournament week and with that the various award groups are handing out their honors starting Monday morning with the All-SEC awards from the USA Today Sports Network, which is voted on by the 11 writers who cover SEC teams for the Network.

Freshman Cameron Thomas was named the Newcomer of the Year by the writers and was the only unanimous selection of the 11 writers to the first team.

Also named to the first team was sophomore forward Trendon Watford.

Junior guard Javonte Smart was named to the five-player second team.

The Tigers won their final two games of the regular season to finish at 16-8 and 11-6 in the SEC. LSU is the third seed in the…