FAYETTEVILLE - For the first time since Corliss Williamson and Scotty Thurman 1995 repeated together named first-team All-SEC between Arkansas’ Nolan Richardson coached 1994 national men’s basketball championship and 1995 national runner-up teams, two Razorbacks simultaneously have been voted SEC men’s basketball first-team.
Senior guard JD Notae and sophomore center Jaylin Williams were voted to the SEC Coaches first-team All-SEC team, it was announced Tuesday.
Williams also was voted by the coaches to their All-SEC Defensive team.
For the Associated Press selected by media All-SEC teams, also announced Tuesday, Notae was unanimously voted All-SEC first team while Williams was voted to the All-SEC second team.
Previously, Notae has received third-team All-America honors from The Sporting News and honorable mention All-America by CollegeHoopstoday.
Williams was selected by Seth Davis of The Athletic to his All-Glue team of players who doing what both shows and doesn’t show in the box score to help their teams.
For Williams, a lifelong Arkansan via Fort Smith Northside, getting linked to Williamson and Thurman hits home.
“It’s crazy,” Williams said Tuesday. “Just growing up hearing those names. You hear about what they did for the State of Arkansas what they did for their team and the rep that they have here in Arkansas, it's crazy just being mentioned in the same category as those two guys. And it's incredible.”
Notae hails from Georgia and first played college ball in Florida at the University of Jacksonville, but he’s lived in Arkansas since first redshirting For us to be the first two since then it’s a credit to our teammates, our coaching staff and just us being us.”
