An All-American team is an honorary sports team composed of the best amateur players of a specific season for each team position—who in turn are given the honorific "All-America" and typically referred to as "All-American athletes", or simply "All-Americans". Although the honorees generally do not compete together as a unit, the term is used in U.S. team sports to refer to players who are selected by members of the national

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selected the first All-America team in the early days of

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in 1889. The 2021 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans are honorary lists that include All-American selections from the

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(AP), the United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA), '' Sporting News'' (SN), and the

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(NABC) for the

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. All selectors choose three teams, while AP also lists honorable mention selections. The Consensus 2021 College Basketball All-American team will be determined by aggregating the results of the four major All-American teams as determined by the

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(NCAA). Since

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was replaced by TSN in 1997, the four major selectors have been the aforementioned ones. AP has been a selector since 1948, NABC since 1957 and USBWA since 1960. To earn "consensus" status, a player must win honors based on a point system computed from the four different all-America teams. The point system consists of three points for first team, two points for second team and one point for third team. No honorable mention or fourth team or lower are used in the computation. The top five totals plus ties are first team and the next five plus ties are second team. Although the aforementioned lists are used to determine consensus honors, there are numerous other All-American lists. The ten finalists for the

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are described as Wooden All-Americans. The ten finalists for the

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are described as Senior All-Americans. Other All-American lists include those determined by

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and many others. The scholar-athletes selected by

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(CoSIDA) are termed

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2021 Consensus All-America team

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Individual All-America teams

By player

By team

AP Honorable Mention: * Max Abmas,

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* Joël Ayayi, Gonzaga *

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* Charles Bassey, Western Kentucky *

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* Justin Champagnie,

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* Derek Culver,

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, Detroit Mercy * Kendric Davis, SMU *

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, Providence * Collin Gillespie, Villanova * RaiQuan Gray, Florida State *

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, Virginia *

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, VCU * Trayce Jackson-Davis, Indiana * Andrew Jones,

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* Carlik Jones,

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, Michigan *

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* Tre Mann,

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* Remy Martin,

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* Miles McBride, West Virginia *

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* Matt Mitchell,

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, Vanderbilt * Neemias Queta,

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, Oklahoma * Jeremiah Robinson-Earl, Villanova * Jaden Shackelford, Alabama *

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, Austin Peay * MaCio Teague, Baylor * Cameron Thomas,

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* Franz Wagner, Michigan * Trevion Williams, Purdue *

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* Marcus Zegarowski, Creighton

Academic All-Americans

The

(CoSIDA) announced its 15-member 2021 Academic All-America team on May 28, 2021, divided into first, second and third teams, with

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of Gonzaga chosen as men's college basketball Academic All-American of the Year.

Senior All-Americans

The 10 finalists for the

, called Senior All-Americans, were announced on February 22, 2021. Luka Garza of Iowa was named the recipient on April 2, with the first and second teams also being announced at that time.

First team

Second team

References

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