Former Ole Miss Center Dwayne Curtis Named to 2024 SEC Men’s Basketball Legends Class
OXFORD, Miss. – (Release) The Southeastern Conference announced the selections for the 2024 class of SEC Men’s Basketball Legends Presented by Allstate on Wednesday, with Ole Miss alumni Dwayne Curtis earning the honor. The class will be honored at the 2024 SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament in Nashville, Tenn., which takes place March 13-17 at Bridgestone Arena.
One of 42 student-athletes to score 1,000 career points at Ole Miss, Curtis is one of just 13 to do so in three years or less. Following one season at Auburn, the Chicago native joined the Ole Miss program in 2005, leading the team in scoring (13.6 points per game) and rebounding (7.6 per game) in his first year.
Curtis would lead the Rebels in rebounding each of his three seasons in Oxford and helped guide the team to a 2007 SEC West Championship. He finished with the highest career field-goal percentage in school history, a record he still holds at 58.4 percent.
He was a Coaches’ All-SEC Second Team and AP All-SEC Second Team selection in 2008 and earned all-conference honorable mention honors from the AP in 2006. Curtis was named to the NABC All-District Second Team in both 2006 and 2008. Off the court, his efforts in the community were recognized by the conference, as he was selected to the 2008 SEC Community Service Team.
Each legend will be recognized during halftime of their team’s first game of the tournament, as well as a group introduction at halftime of the first semifinal game on Saturday.
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2024 SEC Men’s Legends Presented by Allstate
Alabama – Richard Hendrix
Arkansas – Derek Hood
Auburn – Cliff Ellis
Florida – Taurean Green
Georgia – Rashad Wright
Kentucky – Orlando “Tubby” Smith
LSU – Darrel Mitchell
Ole Miss – Dwayne Curtis
Mississippi State – Timmy Bowers
Missouri – Willie Smith
South Carolina – Joe Rhett
Tennessee – Chris Lofton
Texas A&M – Elston Turner
Vanderbilt – Frank Seckar
Ole Miss Basketball SEC Legends
2024 – Dwayne Curtis
2023 – Eric Laird
2019 – Justin Reed
2018 – Rob Evans
2017 – Jason Harrison
2016 – Johnny Neumann
2015 – B.L. Graham
2014 – Ansu Sesay
2013 – Rahim Lockhart
2012 – Jack Waters
2011 – Bob Weltlich
2010 – Cob Jarvis
2009 – Keith Carter
2008 – Joe Harvell
2007 – Elston Turner
2006 – Sean Tuohy
2005 – Coolidge Ball
2004 – Gerald Glass
2003 – Carlos Clark
2002 – Joe Gibbon
2001 – Denver Brackeen
2000 – Don Kessinger
1999 – John Stroud
Evelyn Van Pelt
Evelyn has covered sports for over two decades, beginning her journalism career as a sports writer for a newspaper in Austin, Texas. She attended Texas A&M and majored in English. Evelyn’s love for Ole Miss began when her daughter Katie attended the university on a volleyball scholarship. Evelyn created the Rebel Walk in 2013 and has served as publisher and managing editor since its inception.
