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1980 Consensus All-America team

Individual All-America teams

AP Honorable Mention: * Danny Ainge, BYU * Gene Banks,

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* Earl Belcher, St. Bonaventure * Kim Belton, Stanford * Curtis Berry,

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* Roosevelt Bouie, Syracuse * Boo Bowers, American * Sam Bowie,

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* Kevin Boyle,

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* Clyde Bradshaw, DePaul * Ricardo Brown, Pepperdine * Rickey Brown, Mississippi State * Don Carfino,

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* Darwin Cook, Portland * Ron Cornelius, Pacific * Terry Cummings, DePaul * Kenny Cunningham, Western Michigan * Larry Drew,

* John Duren, Georgetown * Rod Foster,

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* Calvin Garrett,

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* Sidney Green, UNLV *

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* Ernie Hill,

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* Steve Johnson, Oregon State * Jeff Lamp, Virginia * Rudy Macklin,

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* Ethan Martin, LSU * Jim McCloskey,

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* Jack Moore,

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* Tony Murphy, Southern * Carl Nicks, Indiana State * Kurt Nimphius, Arizona State * Mike O'Koren, North Carolina * Louis Orr, Syracuse * Mike Perry, Richmond * Ron Perry, Holy Cross * Wally Rank, San Jose State * Kelvin Ransey, Ohio State * Jeff Ruland, Iona * Ralph Sampson, Virginia * DeWayne Scales, LSU * Craig Shelton, Georgetown * Andre Smith, Nebraska * Larry Smith, Alcorn State * Steve Stipanovich, Missouri * Terry Teagle, Baylor *

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* Corny Thompson,

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* James Tillman, Eastern Kentucky * Andrew Toney, Southwestern Louisiana *

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* Ronnie Valentine, Old Dominion * Kiki VanDeWeghe, UCLA * Jay Vincent, Michigan State * Hawkeye Whitney, NC State * Michael Wiley, Long Beach State * Billy Williams, Clemson * Buck Williams,

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* Francois Wise, Long Beach State * Al Wood, North Carolina * Rudy Woods,

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* Mike Woodson, Indiana * Orlando Woolridge, Notre Dame

Academic All-Americans

On April 18, 1980, CoSIDA announced the 1980 Academic All-America team. The following is the 1979–80 Academic All-America Men's Basketball Team as selected by CoSIDA:

References

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