Birmingham, AL (WVLT) -- LSU was predicted to win the 2010 Southeastern Conference women's basketball championship in a
voting of a select panel of both SEC and national media members.

The LSU women’s basketball team returns four starters and nine letterwinners from a squad that reached the NCAA
Tournament Second Round in 2009. They earned 12 first-place votes, topping Tennessee which earned six votes and
Georgia and Vanderbilt who earned one vote a piece as SEC Champion.

LSU tops the order of finish with 206 points, with Tennessee (190), Georgia (156), Vanderbilt (126), Mississippi State (120)
and Florida (105) rounding out the top half of the league. Arkansas comes in at seven with 92 votes. Auburn (85), Ole Miss
(70), South Carolina (61), Kentucky (40) and Alabama (24) round out the bottom half of the conference.

LSU’s Allison Hightower was the overwhelming choice of the media for SEC Women's Basketball Player of the Year with
18 votes, the remaining votes were for LSU’s LaSondra Barrett and Tennessee’s Angie Bjorklund. Hightower, a senior guard,
led LSU is six categories and was fifth in the league in points per game with 14.9.

Order of Finish:
1. LSU 206
2. Tennessee 190
3. Georgia 156
4. Vanderbilt 126
5. Mississippi State 120
6. Florida 105
7. Arkansas 92
8. Auburn 85
9. Ole Miss 70
10. South Carolina 61
11. Kentucky 40
12. Alabama 24