{"id":301060,"date":"2025-10-13T22:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T22:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/301060\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T22:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T22:47:10","slug":"south-carolina-picked-to-repeat-as-sec-champions-texas-madison-booker-is-preseason-player-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/301060\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina picked to repeat as SEC champions, Texas\u2019 Madison Booker is Preseason Player of Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. \u2014 South Carolina is predicted to repeat as Southeastern Conference women\u2019s basketball champions in 2026 while Texas\u2019 Madison Booker was selected as the Preseason Player of the Year.<\/p>\n

A panel of SEC and national media members did the voting.<\/p>\n

South Carolina, which beat Texas in last year\u2019s SEC championship game, is grappling with Monday\u2019s news that star senior forward Chloe Kitts will miss the entire season<\/a> with a knee injury. The Gamecocks have won or tied for first in the regular season in four straight years and have won the the last three tournaments.<\/p>\n

Texas was picked to finish second in the league, followed by LSU, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Vanderbilt and Kentucky rounding out the top half of the league. They were followed by Alabama, Mississippi State, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Texas A&M, Auburn and Arkansas.<\/p>\n

Booker received 13 points to take the SEC Preseason Player of the Year honor. Among the others receiving votes were South Carolina\u2019s Ta\u2019Niya Latson, LSU\u2019s Flau\u2019Jae Johnson, Vanderbilt\u2019s Mikayla Blakes, Oklahoma\u2019s Raegan Beers and Kentucky\u2019s Clara Strack.<\/p>\n

Joining Booker on the All-SEC first team were Johnson, Beers, Blakes and South Carolina\u2019s Joyce Edwards.<\/p>\n

All-SEC second-team members included Latson, Strack, LSU\u2019s Mikayla Williams, Mississippi\u2019s Cotie McMahon, Tennessee\u2019s Talaysia Cooper and Texas\u2019 Rori Harmon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BIRMINGHAM, Ala. \u2014 South Carolina is predicted to repeat as Southeastern Conference women\u2019s basketball champions in 2026 while…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":301061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,1317,1337,1338,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-301060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115369297231828874","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}