Auburn’s backcourt tandem of Wendell Green Jr. and K.D. Johnson landed on the coaches’ preseason All-SEC teams released Wednesday.

Green and Johnson were both named to the preseason All-SEC second team, as Auburn was one of four schools with multiple players receiving recognition. Alabama, Kentucky and Tennessee also had multiple players on the preseason All-SEC teams.

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The Tigers did not have a first-team selection, but Green and Johnson were among the eight players to earn second-team honors. In all, 17 players picked up All-SEC preseason honors in the annual survey of league coaches, while 36 total received votes in the process.

Green and Johnson are Auburn’s top-two returning scorers from last year’s team that reached No. 1 in the AP poll for the first time in program history, went wire-to-wire atop the SEC to claim the conference’s regular-season crown and earned a No. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Green averaged 12.3 points per game, while Johnson was just behind him at 12 points per game.

Both players are in their second season under coach Bruce Pearl after transferring into the program a year ago. Green made the move from Eastern Kentucky, while Johnson transferred within the SEC after spending his freshman year at rival Georgia. Green was the Tigers’ sixth man last season, coming off the bench in 29 of Auburn’s 34 games, but he appears primed to step into a starting role as a junior. Johnson, the team’s mercurial two-guard who Pearl refers to as “my maniac,” started 31 games last season and could remain in that role alongside Green or transition into the team’s sixth man while providing high-level energy and dynamic scoring off the bench.

Auburn opens the season Monday at home against George Mason but will first have a preseason tune-up Wednesday night against Alabama-Huntsville inside Neville Arena.

Tom Green is an Auburn beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Tomas_Verde.