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Vols' Williams named AP's SEC Player of Year
Williams earned unanimous first-team all-SEC honors for a second straight season. The 14-member media panel also voted Arkansas' Daniel Gafford, Kentucky's PJ Washington, LSU's Tremont Waters and Mississippi State's Quinndary Weatherspoon to the first team.
The second team includes Tennessee teammates Jordan Bone and Admiral Schofield, Auburn's Jared Harper, South Carolina's Chris Silva and Ole Miss' Breein Tyree. Harper also earned second-team all-SEC honors last year.
Williams is the first Volunteer selected as AP player of the year since Chris Lofton in 2007. The only other Vols selected as AP players of the year since the award started in 1965 are Ron Widby (1967), Bernard King (1976 and 1977), Ernie Grunfeld (1977), Dale Ellis (1982 and 1983) and Ron Slay (2003.) King and Grunfeld were named co-players of the year in 1977.