Columbia, Mo. – Former Mizzou Men’s Basketball standout Melvin Booker has been named a 2019 Allstate® SEC Basketball Legend, as announced by the league office on Friday. The 21st annual SEC Basketball Legends class will be honored at the SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament on March 13-17 at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn. Each legend will be recognized at halftime of his institution’s first game at the tournament.

A 1994 All-American and 1994 Big Eight Player of the Year, Booker racked up 1,697 career points, which still ranks seventh on Mizzou’s all-time scoring list. Booker was the catalyst for Mizzou’s 14-0 run through the Big Eight Conference in 1994 as a senior.

Booker averaged 18.1 points per game during the 1993-94 campaign and piled up 143 assists and 41 steals while shooting 50.4 percent from the field and 82.3 percent from the free throw line. He led the Tigers to an Elite Eight run in the 1994 NCAA Tournament. Booker finished his career with 120 career points in NCAA Tournaments, the third-most by any Tiger in program history. He still holds the Mizzou NCAA Tournament record for free throw percentage, shooting a blistering 90 percent (27-of-30) at the charity stripe in the Big Dance over seven games.

Booker was a two-time First Team All-Big Eight honoree (1993 and 1994). He remains 10th all-time in Mizzou history in career field goals made (566), ninth in career 3-pointers made (183), eighth in career free throws made (382), third in career assists (488) and fourth in career assists per game (3.9). Booker was one of 20 Tigers honored on Mizzou’s All-Century Team.

The 2019 class also includes Erwin Dudley, Alabama; Corey Beck, Arkansas; Mike Mitchell, Auburn; Livingston Chatman, Florida; Jumaine Jones, Georgia; Johnny Cox, Kentucky; Wayde Sims, LSU; Justin Reed, Ole Miss; Lawrence Roberts, Mississippi State; Carlos Powell, South Carolina; Mike Jackson, Tennessee; Antoine Wright, Texas A&M; Derrick Byars, Vanderbilt.

— Mizzou Athletics —