Kentucky, Auburn, Texas Tech dominate men’s basketball Twitter growth rates over last 10 weeks

Earlier this week, we unveiled the women’s basketball players who’ve had the largest increase in Instagram followers over the last 10 weeks. We also looked at the most-followed men’s college basketball players on TikTok — and the most-followed women’s college basketball players on TikTok.

Today, let’s take a look at the dominance the SEC’s men’s basketball players have shown in growing their Twitter follower counts this season.

Our database of men’s college basketball players’ social-media accounts, follower counts and growth rates shows that the SEC has 10 of the top-15 highest growth rates in men’s basketball during the timeframe stretching from Dec. 15 to Feb. 28.

Specifically, it’s Kentucky and Auburn — two of the top teams in the conference — who have dominated, with an Arkansas Razorback and LSU Tiger mixed into the top-15.

Here’s the top-15 list of highest follower growth over the last 10 weeks. The information is up-to-date as of Feb. 28.

1. Oscar Tshiebwe (Kentucky, ↑13,597)
2. TyTy Washington Jr. (Kentucky, ↑9,773)
3. Jabari Smith (Auburn, ↑8,429)
4. K.D. Johnson (Auburn, ↑6,994)
5. Wendell Green Jr. (Auburn, ↑6,488)
6. Kellan Grady (Kentucky, ↑6,360)
7. Paolo Banchero (Duke, ↑4,648)
8. Jaylin Williams (Arkansas, ↑4,600)
9. Shareef O’Neal (LSU, ↑4,402)
10. Adonis Arms (Texas Tech, ↑4,374)
11. Davion Mintz (Kentucky, ↑3,750)
12. Trayce Jackson-Davis (Indiana, ↑3,339)
13. Zep Jasper (Auburn, ↑3,328)
14. Terrence Shannon Jr. (Texas Tech, ↑3,159)
15. Kevin McCullar (Texas Tech, ↑2,820)

During that same stretch of time, our database shows Auburn’s Carter Sobera and K.D. Johnson with the two highest growth rates, by percentage, at 353.29% and 245.15%, respectively.

The top-five is rounded out by Boise State’s Emmanuel Akot, Texas Tech’s Adonis Arms and Auburn’s Wendell Green Jr.