LSU senior guard Allison Hightower and sophomore forward LaSondra Barrett both earned All-Southeastern Conference honors Tuesday, as the league announced its women’s basketball postseason awards.Hightower was a unanimous selection to the coaches’ All-SEC First Team, and she also earned a spot on the conference’s All-Defensive team. She was one of three unanimous selections to the First Team, along with Kentucky junior forward Victoria Dunlap and Tennessee junior guard Angie Bjorklund.Kentucky swept this year’s major awards, as Dunlap won SEC Player of the Year, freshman guard A’dia Mathies won Freshman of the Year and coach Matthew Mitchell won the Coach of the Year award.Hightower has been voted onto the First Team for the second consecutive year, giving LSU a first team player for seven consecutive seasons. She is also the first LSU player to receive the honor multiple times since Sylvia Fowles, who was named to the first team from 2006-08.”It’s just an honor to be named to the team that has so many great players,” Hightower said in a news release. “It’s an honor to be up there with the best. It shows if you keep working hard day after day, great things happen. That’s the mindset I take to practice.”Hightower provided much of the offense during LSU’s 20-8 run this season. She leads the team in scoring with 18.3 points per game, and she is currently shooting 41 percent from 3-point range.Barrett earned her second-team honor after averaging 12.7 points and 6.8 rebounds per game this season. She was named SEC Co-Freshman of the Year in 2009.The Lady Tigers begin postseason play Friday night as the No. 4 seed in the SEC tournament. They will face the winner of Thursday’s game between Vanderbilt and Arkansas.—-Contact David Helman at [email protected]