Southeastern Conference play starts Saturday with Kentucky at Alabama among five games on the slate, and this will be the first opportunity that many basketball fans take to see some of the league’s top newcomers.
So far, four SEC teams — including UK — have freshmen leading them in scoring, and the conference’s top first-year players feature a mix of highly touted five-star recruits and lesser-known prospects making a big immediate impact.
The top two teams in the league, however, are winning games without the help of freshmen. No. 3 Tennessee has the top two scorers in the league — upperclassmen Grant Williams and Admiral Schofield — and the only freshman that has played for the Volunteers so far this season is Brock Jancek, who has zero points in six total minutes.