HawgBeat – Three Hoop Hogs earn Coaches All-SEC honors

Three Arkansas Razorback basketball gamers acquired postseason honors from the Southeastern Convention coaches on Monday afternoon.

Freshman guard Anthony Black was named second workforce and freshman All-SEC, junior guard Ricky Council IV earned second workforce All-SEC and junior guard Davonte Davis was named to the SEC All-Defensive workforce.

For the second straight yr, two Razorbacks have been named to the coaches all-conference workforce and this marks the twelfth time a number of Arkansas gamers have been honored in the identical season. Davis is Arkansas’ second-straight SEC All-Defensive workforce participant and the seventh since 2008.

Black was one in every of two gamers within the convention to rank among the many league’s high 25 in scoring (twentieth; 12.8 per recreation), rebounds (twenty third; 5.1 per recreation), assists (third, 4.2 per recreation) and steals (third, 2.0 per recreation.). In SEC play, his averages went as much as 13.2 factors, 5.2 rebounds, 4.6 assists and a couple of.1 steals.

The McDonald’s All-American earned SEC Freshman of the Week on Nov. 28 after averaging 23.3 factors per recreation throughout three video games throughout Arkansas’ exhibiting on the Maui Invitational. He scored double digits 21 instances within the common season and he had a minimum of 4 assists on 12 events in convention play.

Council leads the SEC in minutes performed, in keeping with Arkansas Communications. The Wichita State switch ranks third within the SEC in scoring (16.5 factors per recreation), third in free throws made (138) and seventh in discipline purpose share (.454%).

The 87 free throws made and 115 makes an attempt in SEC video games by Council at present ranks fifth within the college’s report ebook. He scored in double figures in 28 of 31 video games this season, together with 10 video games of a minimum of 20 factors, and he’s two factors shy of 1,000 for his profession.

Davis making the All-Defensive anticipated, as he routinely was assigned to protect the opponents’ first or second main scorer and was consistently praised by head coach Eric Musselman as one of many high defensive gamers not simply within the SEC, however within the nation. Although Davis ranked simply fifteenth within the SEC in steals per recreation (1.4), his opponents virtually at all times scored under their season common.

Under is the complete record of the 2022-23 All-SEC groups as voted on by the coaches:

2022-23 SEC Males’s Basketball Coaches Awards

First Staff

– Brandon Miller, Alabama

– Colin Castleton, Florida

– Oscar Tshiebwe, Kentucky

– Tolu Smith, Mississippi State

– Kobe Brown, Missouri

– Santiago Vescovi, Tennessee

– Wade Taylor IV, Texas A&M

– Liam Robbins, Vanderbilt

Second Staff

– Mark Sears, Alabama

– Anthony Black, Arkansas

– Ricky Council IV, Arkansas

– Johni Broome, Auburn

– Wendell Inexperienced Jr., Auburn

– KJ Williams, LSU

– Zakai Zeigler, Tennessee

– Tyrece Radford, Texas A&M

All-Defensive Staff

– Charles Bediako, Alabama

– Davonte Davis, Arkansas

– Colin Castleton, Florida

– Zakai Zeigler, Tennessee

– Liam Robbins, Vanderbilt

All-Freshman Staff

– Jaden Bradley, Alabama

– Noah Clowney, Alabama

– Brandon Miller, Alabama

– Anthony Black, Arkansas

– Riley Kugel, Florida

– Chris Livingston, Kentucky

– Cason Wallace, Kentucky

– Gregory “GG” Jackson II, South Carolina

– Julian Phillips, Tennessee

Co-Coach of the Yr: Buzz Williams, Texas A&M & Jerry Stackhouse, Vanderbilt

Participant of the Yr: Brandon Miller, Alabama

Scholar-Athlete of the Yr: Kobe Brown, Missouri

Freshman of the Yr: Brandon Miller, Alabama

Co-Sixth-Man of the Yr: Jahvon Quinerly, Alabama & Antonio Reeves, Kentucky

Defensive Participant of the Yr: Liam Robbins, Vanderbilt