As voted by the league’s coaches, eight players made first-team All-SEC last season in men’s basketball. Only two of them are back for 2018-19 — Tennessee’s Grant Williams and South Carolina’s Chris Silva.
Silva tested the NBA waters, but chose to return to USC for his senior year. What’s to follow could be historic.
Silva in 2017-18 became the second Gamecock in program history to be named the league’s defensive player of the year. No Gamecock has ever left the program with an SEC DPOY and an overall player of the year.