
It’s quite an honor for the media to select a player for the pre-season all-SEC team, but it can also mean a lot of pressure, particularly when a player has not played a minute of college basketball. That’s what’s happened to Brandon Knight, the 6-foot-3 high school sensation from Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Knight, who won the Gatorade Player of the Year award in July, already had one cross to bear, taking over the spot of last year’s freshman sensation John Wall, an inevitable comparison that had already drawn a great deal of discussion.