Black honored

Guard Anthony Black was named an SEC cofreshman of the week by the conference office on Monday after his work in the Maui Jim Maui Invitational last week.

Black averaged 22.3 points, 4.7 rebounds and 4.3 assists in three games in the Maui tournament. The former McDonald’s All-American from Duncanville, Texas, had back-to-back 26-point games in an 80-54 win over Louisville and a 90-87 loss to Creighton to open the tournament. He was also selected as the CBS Sports/ United States Basketball Writers Association of America freshman of the week for his efforts, which included 22 of 40 (55%) field goal shooting after going 19 of 29 (65.5%) in the first two games.

Black shared the honor with Ole Miss guard Amaree Abram, who averaged 20.7 points, 3 rebounds and 3.3 assists in games against Stanford, Siena and Oklahoma at the ESPN Events Invitational.