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Vanderbilt men’s basketball point guard Tyler Tanner has done it again with another All-SEC honor, this time from the Associated Press.
Tuesday afternoon, Tanner was on the outlet’s First Team All-SEC Selection for his performance during the 2025-2026 season. Tanner also earned a First Team All-SEC selection through the coaches’ vote Monday afternoon as the conference awards were announced.
Tanner has been Vanderbilt’s leader the whole season, putting up numbers that have not been accomplished in years. Tanner is just the third player in the last 30 years to average 21 points, 5.5 assists and two steals per game during conference play. Only Jay Williams and Jason Terry have done that outside of Tanner.
Tanner is primed to break the school record for most steals in a season. Tanner needs two steals between Vanderbilt’s SEC Tournament run and NCAA Tournament run to pass James Strong for the most steals in a season. Additionally, Tanner is just 12 points away from moving into the top 10 on Vanderbilt’s single-season scoring list. Tanner is also 18 assists away from breaking the program’s single-season assist record.
If Tanner keeps up his season averages into the postseason, he is almost certain to break Strong's steal record and move into the program’s top 10 single-season scoring list this week, perhaps even in the Commodores’ quarterfinal game Friday afternoon.
Vanderbilt will face off against either No. 5 seed Tennessee, No. 12 seed Auburn or No. 13 seed Mississippi State at 2:30 p.m. CT Friday.
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Graham Baakko is a writer for Vanderbilt Commodores On SI, primarily covering football, basketball and baseball. Graham is a recent graduate from the University of Alabama, where he wrote for The Crimson White, WVUA-FM, WVUA 23 as he covered a variety of Crimson Tide sports. He also covered South Carolina athletics as a sportswriting intern for GamecockCentral.
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