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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

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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 2016 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans are honorary lists that include All-American selections from the

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(NABC) for the 2015–16 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. All selectors choose at least a first and second 5-man team. The NABC, TSN and AP choose third teams, while AP also lists honorable mention selections. The Consensus 2016 College Basketball All-American team is 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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2016 Consensus All-America team

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Individual All-America teams

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, Belmont *Dillon Brooks, Oregon *

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, High Point * Antonio Campbell,

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* Stephen Croone, Furman * James Daniel III,

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* Derrick Griffin,

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* Alex Hamilton,

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*Josh Hart, Villanova *

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, Duke * Stefan Janković,

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* Tim Kempton Jr., Lehigh * Max Landis, IPFW * Shawn Long, Louisiana–Lafayette * Dallas Moore,

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* Nic Moore, SMU * Gary Payton II,

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, Valparaiso * Justin Robinson,

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, Gonzaga *

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, Stony Brook *

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, Gonzaga

Academic All-Americans

On March 3, 2016,

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team, with

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headlining the University Division as the men's college basketball Academic All-American of the Year. The following is the 2015–16 Academic All-America Men’s Basketball Team (University Division) as selected by CoSIDA: :(1) = 2014–15 CoSIDA Academic All-America Division I first team :(2) = 2014–15 CoSIDA Academic All-America Division I second team :(3) = 2014–15 CoSIDA Academic All-America Division I third team :(*) = 2013–14 CoSIDA Academic All-America Division I second team

Senior All-Americans

The ten finalists for the

are called Senior All-Americans. The 10 honorees are as follows:

References

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