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UA's Smith on SEC coaches' team
FAYETTEVILLE -- University of Arkansas freshman guard Nick Smith was among nine players voted to the preseason All-SEC first team by the conference coaches, it was announced Wednesday.
Smith, a McDonald's All-American at North Little Rock High School, was joined on the first team by Alabama's Javon Quinerly, Florida's Colin Castleton, Kentucky's Oscar Tshiebwe and Sahvir Wheeler, Mississippi State's Tolu Smith, Missouri's Kobe Brown and Tennessee's Santiago Vescovi and Zakai Zeigler.
The second-team picks were Alabama's Brandon Miller, Auburn's Wendell Green and K.D. Johnson, Georgia's Kario Oquendo, LSU's KJ Williams, Ole Miss' Matthew Murrell, Tennessee's Josiah-Jordan James and Texas A&M's Henry Coleman.