NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
The NCAA Men's Basketball All-American teams are teams made up of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball players voted the best in the country by a variety of organizations.
History
Consensus teams
While an increasing number of media outlets select All-America teams, the NCAA recognizes consensus All-America teams back to 1905.
Teams used to determine consensus selections
Through the years, the following media outlets have been recognized and have been used to determine consensus teams. From 1905 to 1928, the Helms Athletic Foundation All-America teams are considered the "official" teams of those years by the NCAA.[4]
Granting Institution | Years |
Helms Athletic Foundation | 1929–1948 |
College Humor | 1929–1933; 1936 |
Christy Walsh Syndicate | 1929–1930 |
Converse Yearbook |
1932–1948 |
The Literary Digest | 1934 |
Madison Square Garden |
1937 |
Omaha World | 1937–1942 |
Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA) | 1938; 1953–1963 |
Collyer's News Bureau | 1939 |
Pic | 1942–1944 |
Sporting News |
1943–1946; 1960–1962; 1998–present |
Argosy | 1945 |
True | 1946–1947 |
Associated Press (AP) | 1948–present |
United Press International (UPI) | 1949–1996 |
Look | 1949–1962 |
Collier's | 1949–1956 |
International News Service | 1950–1958 |
National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) | 1957–present |
National Collegiate Association Bureau | 1961 |
United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) | 1963–present |
Leaders by school
The top ten schools with the most consensus first-team All-Americans are listed below, ranked by total number of selections. For a complete list, please see the NCAA records.
School | Selections | Players | Most recent year |
Most recent player |
---|---|---|---|---|
Kansas | 32 | 25 | 2023 | Jalen Wilson |
North Carolina | 28 | 19 | 2024 | R. J. Davis |
Purdue | 28 | 19 | 2024 | Zach Edey |
Kentucky | 27 | 22 | 2022 | Oscar Tshiebwe |
Duke | 24 | 21 | 2019 | RJ Barrett and Zion Williamson |
Penn | 24 | 14 | 1953 | Ernie Beck |
Notre Dame | 23 | 14 | 2015 | Jerian Grant |
Wisconsin | 22 | 19 | 2022 | Johnny Davis |
UCLA | 21 | 15 | 2017 | Lonzo Ball |
Columbia | 19 | 13 | 1957 | Chet Forte |
Academic All-Americans
In 1963, the first
School | Selections | Players |
---|---|---|
UCLA | 17 | 10 |
Kansas | 15 | 11 |
Indiana | 13 | 9 |
Duke | 13 | 8 |
Notre Dame | 13 | 8 |
North Carolina | 11 | 9 |
Kentucky | 9 | 8 |
Gonzaga | 8 | 7 |
BYU | 8 | 4 |
Purdue | 7 | 5 |
Through 2020
Preseason All-Americans
In 1986, the Associated Press named the first preseason All-America team for the
See also
- NCAA Women's Basketball All-Americans – NCAA Division I women's basketball equivalent
- AAU Men's Basketball All-Americans – similar honor presented to men's basketball players in the Amateur Athletic Union between 1920–21 and 1967–68
References
- ^ a b Men's Basketball All-Americans
- ^ "Official NCAA Consensus All-Americans" (PDF). Retrieved April 1, 2012.
- ^ "2009–10 NCAA Statistics Policies(updated 9/2/2009)". National Collegiate Athletic Association. September 2, 2009. Archived from the original on June 12, 2010. Retrieved September 26, 2010.
- ISSN 1521-2955.
- ^ AP (March 27, 1963). "Pick Academic all-America". Schenectady Gazette. Retrieved October 31, 2010.
- ^ AP (November 20, 1986). "Midhipman Robinson tops preseason all-americans". Rome News-Tribune. Retrieved October 31, 2010.
- ^ Preseason All-Americans announced, accessed March 22, 2011