Tennessee’s Rickea Jackson has been named to the five-player SEC Women’s Basketball All-Tournament Team, the league office announced on Sunday afternoon.
Jackson, a 6-foot-2, fifth-year forward from Detroit, Mich., made the conference all-tourney team for the second straight season and for the third time in her career. In addition to her back-to-back honors as a Lady Vol, she made the squad as a freshman at Mississippi State during the 2019-20 campaign.
Helping lead UT to its fourth-straight semifinal appearance and make a push for a second consecutive finals berth, Jackson averaged 17.3 points and 9.0 rebounds over her team’s three games in the tournament. She shot 50 percent from the field, 43 percent from beyond the arc and 78 percent from the charity stripe in the Big Orange’s three contests.
After foul trouble limited Jackson to eight points and nine rebounds in 17 minutes in the win vs. Kentucky, Jackson was stellar in a dominant victory over Alabama and a near-miss vs. No. 1 ranked South Carolina. She recorded identical back-to-back efforts of 22 points and nine rebounds vs. the Crimson Tide and Gamecocks. She added a career-high eight assists vs. USC, flirting with her first career triple-double.
For the season, the two-time All-SEC First Team selection and Cheryl Miller Award finalist is averaging 19.4 points, 8.0 rebounds, and 2.4 assists while hitting 47 percent from the field and 76 percent at the charity stripe.
