The final All-State basketball teams were unveiled earlier this week, with the Illinois Media All-State boys basketball team. That rounds out an awards season in which 13 Kankakee area boys and girls basketball players received some sort of statewide recognition.

On the boys side, Kankakee senior Lincoln Williams didn’t just earn first-team selections from both the Illinois Media and Illinois Basketball Coaches Association, but as the leading vote-getter for the media, Williams was named the Class 3A Steve Tappa Illinois Media Player of the Year.

In his fourth year in the Kays lineup, Williams averaged 24 points, six rebounds, four assists and two steals per game. He was also named the Player of the Year by the Daily Journal and the Southland Athletic Conference. He is Kankakee’s record holder for scoring in a game (44 points), season (703) and career (1,853).

A pair of Williams’ senior teammates were named All-Staters as well. EJ Hazelett, who was a first-teamer by the IBCA and media second-team pick after averaging 15 points, eight rebounds and two assists per game. Myair Thompson was a third-team IBCA selection after the three-year varsity veteran averaged 11 points and four assists per game.

Like Kankakee, Bishop McNamara won a school record 29 games. And like the Kays, the Fightin’ Irish saw a senior trio get All-State recognition by the IBCA. Coen Demack (12.5 pgg, 5.5 rpg, 4 apg, 2.3 spg) was a third-team pick, while Karter Krutsinger (11.3 ppg, 5.2 rpg, 2.9 apg, 1.1 spg) and four-year starting center Callaghan O’Connor (12 ppg, 6.9 rpg, 1.2 apg, 1.5 bpg, 1.2 spg) were special mentions.

On the girls side, Cissna Park four-year starting senior guard Addison Lucht (19 ppg, 4 rpg, 3.5 apg, 4.9 spg, 1 bpg) wrapped up her career with a first-team media and IBCA sweep. The four-time All-Stater became the first Timberwolves player to eclipse 2,000 career points over the winter, setting the program points and steals record.

Manteno junior Maddie Gesky (15.4 ppg, 12.6 rpg, 1.1 apg, 2.6 bpg, 1.8 spg) got recognized by the media as an honorable mention and the IBCA in Class 2A after breaking the Manteno scoring and rebounding records and helping the Panthers to a program-record 27 wins and a sectional final appearance.

Kankakee junior Ava Johnson (18.5 ppg, 7 rpg, 1.3 bpg) was a media honorable mention and IBCA special mention in 3A. She was joined by classmate Malea Harrison (14.4 ppg, 6 rpg, 5 apg, 2.5 spg) as IBCA special mentions.

Lucht’s Cissna Park classmate Lauryn Hamrick (12 ppg, 4.2 rpg, 1 apg, 1.1 spg) completed her own four-year career with a second-team IBCA spot in 1A. In 2A, Reed-Custer junior Alyssa Wollenzein (19.7 ppg, 6.8 rpg, 5 spg) and Watseka/Milford senior Christa Holohan (18 ppg, 6.1 rpg, 2 apg, 2.1 spg) each earned 2A special mention from the IBCA.