Auburn’s Wendell Green Jr., Johni Broome make coaches All-SEC team

Auburn’s Wendell Green Jr., Johni Broome make coaches All-SEC team

Two Auburn players landed on the coaches All-SEC teams this season.

The SEC announced its annual awards Monday afternoon, when Auburn point guard Wendell Green Jr. and center Johni Broome both earned second-team All-SEC honors as voted on by the league’s coaches.

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Green and Broome have been Auburn’s top-two players throughout the 2022-23 regular season, which ended Saturday with a big-time win at Neville Arena against then-No. 12 Tennessee. Broome is Auburn’s leading scorer (14 points per game) and leading rebounder (8.4 per game), while Green was just behind him averaging 13.9 points per game and leading the team in assists (4.2 per game) in his first season as the Tigers’ starting point guard.

Green started all 31 games for Auburn at point guard this season after serving as the Tigers’ sixth man during his first year on the Plains last season. He helped lead Auburn to a 20-11 overall record and a 10-8 mark in SEC play, as the Tigers earned the No. 7 seed in this week’s SEC Tournament and likely locked in a fourth NCAA Tournament appearance in the last five postseasons. Along with finishing as Auburn’s second-leading scorer and recording his third consecutive season with at least 100 assists, Green tied for second in the SEC in assists per game and led Auburn with 1.7 steals per game (10th-best in the league).

Broome, a transfer from Morehead State and last season’s OVC Defensive Player of the Year, was a force inside for Auburn during his first season on the Plains. Along with leading the team in scoring and rebounding, Broome finished third in the SEC in blocks (2.4 per game) and ranked 10th nationally in block rate (9.8 percent).

That duo will lead Auburn into the SEC Tournament this week in Nashville, where the Tigers open play Thursday against 10th-seeded Arkansas on SEC Network.

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