Tolefree, Dungee land on All-SEC teams

Arkansas guard Alexis Tolefree flexes after a score against Missouri on Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020 at Bud Walton Arena in Fayetteville.

Two Razorbacks landed on All-SEC teams on Tuesday.

Senior guard Alexis Tolefree, a native of Conway, was named first team All-SEC, and redshirt junior Chelsea Dungee garnered second-team recognition, the league announced.

Tolefree averaged career highs in scoring (16.3), rebounding (4.2), assists (2.0) and steals (1.6) per game during the regular season and shot 43.5 percent from the floor and 41.7 percent beyond the arc.

She upped her scoring average in SEC games to 18.6, which led the team and was good for the third-best mark in the conference. Tolefree scored a career-high 35 points at Missouri in Arkansas’ 13-point comeback win and 30 against then-No. 15 Kentucky with 25 coming in the second half.

Tolefree reached double figures in all but six games.

Dungee led Arkansas in scoring at 17 points per game and averaged 4.8 rebounds, 1.7 assists and 1.5 steals. She scored 10-plus points in 24 games, 20 or more 10 times and 30-plus twice.

Dungee is the lone player in program history to score 38 points two times, and she needed only 49 career games to reach 1,000 career points. Her 1,497 career points are second most among active SEC players.

The Razorbacks secured the No. 5 seed in this week’s SEC Tournament in Greenville, S.C., in their win over LSU on Sunday. Arkansas is scheduled to play the winner of Auburn-Vanderbilt on Thursday. The game will air on SEC Network.

First Team All-SEC

Alexis Tolefree, Arkansas

Unique Thompson, Auburn

Rhyne Howard, Kentucky

Aliyah Boston, South Carolina

Tyasha Harris, South Carolina

Rennia Davis, Tennessee

Chennedy Carter, Texas A&M

N'dea Jones, Texas A&M

Second Team All-SEC

Jasmine Walker, Alabama

Chelsea Dungee, Arkansas

Ayana Mitchell, LSU

Khayla Pointer, LSU

Jessika Carter, Mississippi State

Jordan Danberry, Mississippi State

Rickea Jackson, Mississippi State

Mikiah Herbert Harrigan, South Carolina

All-Freshman Team

Lavender Briggs, Florida

Rickea Jackson, Mississippi State

Aijha Blackwell, Missouri

Hayley Frank, Missouri

Aliyah Boston, South Carolina

Zia Cooke, South Carolina

Jordan Horston, Tennessee

Koi Love, Vanderbilt

All-Defensive Team

Que Morrison, Georgia

Rhyne Howard, Kentucky

Faustine Aifuwa, LSU

Jordan Danberry, Mississippi State

Aliyah Boston, South Carolina

Jordyn Cambridge, Vanderbilt

Player of the Year: Rhyne Howard, Kentucky

Freshman of the Year: Aliyah Boston, South Carolina

Defensive Player of the Year: Aliyah Boston, South Carolina

6th Woman of the Year: Chasity Patterson, Kentucky

Coach of the Year: Dawn Staley, South Carolina