Otega Oweh earns All-SEC Second Team honors, Amari Williams snubbed

Kentucky’s leading scorer earned All-SEC honors to wrap up the regular season, but he’s inexplicably the only Wildcat included in the award cycle.

Otega Oweh, who emerged as a star in blue and white during his debut season, has been named to the All-SEC Second Team — a well-deserved honor for the guard who averaged 16.2 points, 4.6 rebounds, 1.6 assists and 1.5 steals in 28.1 minutes per contest in 2024-25.

Elsewhere, though, Amari Williams — who played like the second-best big in the SEC behind Auburn’s Johni Broome — was left off the All-SEC lists and SEC All-Defensive Team. He finished his one-and-done season in Lexington averaging 11.0 points, 8.7 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 1.3 blocks in 22.5 minutes per game.

Lamont Butler, who averaged career highs in points (11.9), assists (4.4), rebounds (2.9) and steals (1.7), did not receive any season honors, either. He came to Kentucky as the reigning two-time Mountain West Defensive Player of the Year.

Take a look at the complete list of 2025 SEC Men’s Basketball Awards:

Coach of the Year: Bruce Pearl, Auburn
Player of the Year: Johni Broome, Auburn
Scholar-Athlete of the Year: Benjamin Bosmans-Verdonk, South Carolina
Newcomer of the Year: Chaz Lanier, Tennessee
Freshman of the Year: Tre Johnson, Texas
Sixth-Man of the Year: Caleb Grill, Missouri
Defensive Player of the Year: Zakai Zeigler, Tennessee

All-SEC First Team

• Johni Broome, Auburn
• Walter Clayton Jr., Florida
• Mark Sears, Alabama
• Wade Taylor IV, Texas A&M
• Zakai Zeigler, Tennessee

All-SEC Second Team

• Josh Hubbard, Mississippi State
• Tre Johnson, Texas
• Chaz Lanier, Tennessee
• Collin Murray-Boyles, South Carolina
• Otega Oweh, Kentucky

All-SEC Third Team

• Chad Baker-Mazara, Auburn
• Alex Condon, Florida
• Jason Edwards, Vanderbilt
• Mark Mitchell, Missouri
• Sean Pedulla, Ole Miss

SEC All-Defensive Team

• Denver Jones, Auburn
• Jahmai Mashack, Tennessee
• Cameron Matthews, Mississippi State
• Anthony Robinson II, Missouri
• Zakai Zeigler, Tennessee

SEC All-Freshman Team

• Jeremiah Fears, Oklahoma
• Tre Johnson, Texas
• Asa Newell, Georgia
• Tahaad Pettiford, Auburn
• Labaron Philon, Alabama