This award is presented annually to the most outstanding men's basketball player in the country.
Alabama men's basketball point guard Mark Sears has been showered with preseason award-winning predictions ahead of the Crimson Tide's most hyped-up season in program history and that continued on Wednesday with perhaps the biggest honor as he was named to the Naismith Trophy watch list.
This is presented annually to the most outstanding men's basketball player in the country, and Sears certainly is a valid candidate to take home the coveted award as also this preseason he's been named to the 2024-25 Preseason All-SEC First Team, the preseason's SEC Player of the Year, received the most votes to land a spot on the. The Crimson Tide has now been ranked in the Preseason AP Poll 22 times, with its previously highest placement coming at No. 7 in 1990-91.
Following the Crimson Tide's first-ever Final Four appearance, Alabama head coach Nate Oats and his staff, several returning players, including Sears, multiple experienced transfers and highly touted incoming freshmen all give Alabama realistic expectations to get two more wins than last season's NCAA Tournament to claim the school's first-ever National Title.
Sears will get to begin his Naismith Trophy and National Title campaign when Alabama tips off its regular season at home against UNC Asheville nextHunter De Siver is a graduate from the University of Alabama, earning a degree in sports media. During his time in Tuscaloosa, Hunter distributed articles covering Alabama football, basketball, and baseball for WVUA 23 TV and discussed these topics on Tide 100.9 FM.
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