For the first time in four seasons, Western Kentucky’s men’s basketball team features two all-league selections.

Senior Justin Johnson was named to the 2017-18 All-Conference USA First Team and senior Darius Thompson was named to the second team, the league office announced Monday.

In addition, WKU’s Taveion Hollingsworth was named to the C-USA All-Freshman team.

“Those three guys, they all deserve what they got and I’m proud for them,” Topper coach Rick Stansbury said Monday night on his radio show. “Those are good individual awards, which means your team’s good. They benefited from the team.

“The better the team is, the better you are and the more success you’re going to have, the more publicity you’re going to get when your team wins.”

Stansbury went on to express surprise that forward Dwight Coleby wasn’t named to any of the three All-C-USA teams.

This is the first time WKU has earned multiple all-conference selections since T.J. Price (first team) and George Fant (second team) in 2014-15.

Johnson is the first Hilltopper to make the first team since Price.

A second-team selection as a junior last season, Johnson – a 6-foot-7 product of Hazard – leads WKU in scoring (14.8 points per game) and rebounding (9.4) for the third straight season. He also leads C-USA in rebounds per game and ranks in the top 35 in the country in total rebounds, rebounds per game and defensive boards per game.

Johnson is shooting 51.8 percent from the field and a team-best 41.8 percent from 3-point range.

He’s ranked 15th on WKU’s all-time scoring list with 1,580 points, fifth on the all-time rebounding list with 988 boards and in the top 10 in career field-goal percentage, games played, minutes played, free throws attempted and double-doubles.

Johnson is one of four active players in the nation with at least 1,500 career points and 950 career rebounds.

Thompson, a graduate transfer guard from Murfreesboro, Tenn., averaged 14.2 points, 4.7 assists and 4.5 rebounds per game in his lone season at WKU.

The 6-4 guard has made a team-high 53 3-pointers and grabbed 47 steals, which ranks second on the squad. He’s played 1,114 total minutes this season, which ranks seventh in WKU history for a single season.

He’s ranked ninth in WKU history for most assists in a single season with 146, and he registered the second triple-double in program history with 33 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists at Marshall on Jan. 6.

Hollingsworth, a 6-2 guard from Lexington, is the first Hilltopper to receive a freshman-centric honor since Chris Harrison-Docks was named Sun Belt Conference Freshman of the Year in 2014.

Hollingsworth has started all 31 games for WKU this season, averaging 13.3 points while shooting 49.3 percent from the field, 38.2 percent from 3-point range and 76.6 percent from the free-throw line.

He ranks fourth in WKU history for points in a season by a varsity freshman with 411 – 50 behind Courtney Lee’s record of 461 – and his 1,069 minutes played this season are the second-most ever by a Hilltopper freshman.

The third-seeded Hilltoppers (22-9) head this week to the conference tournament in Frisco, Texas, where they’ll face UAB or Florida Atlantic in the quarterfinals at 9 p.m. CST Thursday.

C-USA will announce its specialty and individual awards later this week.

2017-18 All-Conference USA First Team

Jon Elmore, Marshall, Jr., G, 6-3, 185, Charleston, W.V.

Nick King, Middle Tennessee, Sr., F, 6-7, 225, Memphis, Tenn.

Ahmad Caver, Old Dominion, Jr., G, 6-2, 170, Atlanta

Chris Cokley, UAB, Sr., F, 6-8, 238, Savannah, Ga.

Justin Johnson, WKU, Sr., F, 6-7, 245, Hazard

2017-18 All-Conference USA Second Team

C.J. Burks, Marshall, Jr., G, 6-4, 195, Martinsburg, W.V.

Giddy Potts, Middle Tennessee, Sr., G, 6-2, 217, Athens, Ala.

Roosevelt Smart, North Texas, So., G, 6-3, 185, Chicago

Jhivvan Jackson, UTSA, Fr., G, 6-0, 160, Bayamón, Puerto Rico

Darius Thompson, WKU, Gr., 6-4, 190, Murfreesboro, Tenn.

2017-18 All-Conference USA Third Team

Brian Beard Jr., FIU, Jr., G, 5-10, 180, Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.

Ronald Delph, Florida Atlantic, R-Sr., C, 7-0, 245, Winter Haven, Fla.

Jacobi Boykins, Louisiana Tech, Sr., G, 6-6, 175, St. Petersburg, Fla.

Ajdin Penava, Marshall, Jr., F, 6-9, 220, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina

B.J. Stith, Old Dominion, Jr., G, 6-5, 215, Lawrenceville, Va.

2017-18 Conference USA All-Freshman Team

Anthony Duruji, Louisiana Tech, Fr., F, 6-7, 198, Germantown, Md.

Zack Bryant, UAB, Fr., G, 6-2, 180, Hastings, Fla.

Jhivvan Jackson, UTSA, Fr., G, 6-0, 160, Bayamón, Puerto Rico

Keaton Wallace, UTSA, Fr., G, 6-3, 170, Dallas

Taveion Hollingsworth, WKU, Fr., G, 6-2, 175, Lexington

2017-18 Conference USA All-Defensive Team

Brian Beard Jr., FIU, Jr., G, 5-10, 180, Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.

Ajdin Penava, Marshall, Jr., F, 6-9, 220, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina

Tyrik Dixon, Middle Tennessee, So., G, 6-1, 184, Bentonville, Ark.

Ahmad Caver, Old Dominion, Jr., G, 6-2, 170, Atlanta

William Lee, UAB, Sr., F, 6-9, 206, Selma, Ala.{&end}