An
All-American
The All-America designation is an annual honor bestowed on outstanding athletes in the United States who are considered to be among the best athletes in their respective sport. Individuals receiving this distinction are typically added to an Al ...
team is an
honorary sports team composed of the best
amateur
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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 U.S. team sports to refer to players who are selected by members of the national
media
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.
Walter Camp
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selected the
first All-America team in the early days of
American football
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in 1889. The 2019 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans are honorary lists that will include All-American selections from the
Associated Press
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(AP), the
United States Basketball Writers Association
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(USBWA), the ''
Sporting News
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'' (TSN), and the
National Association of Basketball Coaches
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(NABC) for the
2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. All selectors choose three teams, while AP also lists honorable mention selections.
The Consensus 2019 College Basketball All-American team was determined by aggregating the results of the four major All-American teams as determined by the
National Collegiate Athletic Association
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(NCAA). Since
United Press International
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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
John Wooden Award
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are described as Wooden All-Americans. The ten finalists for the
Senior CLASS Award are described as Senior All-Americans. Other All-American lists include those determined by
USA Today
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,
Fox Sports
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,
Yahoo! Sports
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and many others. The scholar-athletes selected by
College Sports Information Directors of America
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(CoSIDA) are termed
Academic All-American
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s.
2019 Consensus All-America team
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:SG –
Shooting guard
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:PF –
Power forward
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:SF –
Small forward
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:C –
Center
Individual All-America teams
By player
By team
AP Honorable Mention:
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* Keith Braxton, Saint Francis (PA)
* Ignas Brazdeikis, ]Michigan
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*Tookie Brown
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, Georgia Southern
*Chris Clemons, Campbell
* R. J. Cole, Howard
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* Jeremy Combs, Texas Southern
* Jarron Cumberland, Cincinnati
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*Mike Daum, South Dakota State
* Jordan Davis, Northern Colorado
* Cameron Delaney, Sam Houston State
*Lamine Diane
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, Cal State Northridge
* Daniel Gafford, Arkansas
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* Rapolas Ivanauskas, Colgate
* Ty Jerome, Virginia
* Cameron Johnson, North Carolina
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*Jón Axel Guðmundsson
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, Davidson
* Anthony Lamb, Vermont
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* Fletcher Magee, Wofford
* Caleb Martin, Nevada
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* C. J. Massinburg, Buffalo
* Garrison Mathews, Lipscomb
* Luke Maye, North Carolina
* Drew McDonald, Northern Kentucky
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* Sam Merrill, Utah State
* Jaylen Nowell, Washington
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* Miye Oni, Yale
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* Shamorie Ponds, St. John's
* Myles Powell, Seton Hall
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* Admiral Schofield, Tennessee
*Marial Shayok
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, Iowa State
* B. J. Stith, Old Dominion
* Matisse Thybulle, Washington
*Jake Toolson
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, Utah Valley
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*Marques Townes
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, Loyola (IL)
* Tremont Waters, LSU
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*Coby White
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, North Carolina
* Justin Wright-Foreman, Hofstra
* Cameron Young, Quinnipiac
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Academic All-Americans
On March 11, 2019, the College Sports Information Directors of America
College Sports Communicators (CSC) is a membership association for all strategic, creative and digital professionals working in intercollegiate athletics across all levels for colleges, universities and conferences across the United States and Cana ...
(CoSIDA) announced the 2019 Academic All-America
The Academic All-America program is a student-athlete recognition program. The program selects an honorary sports team composed of the most outstanding student-athletes of a specific season for positions in various sports—who in turn are give ...
team, with Joe Sherburne headlining the NCAA Division I team as the men's college basketball Academic All-American of the Year. The following is the 2018–19 Academic All-America Division I Men's Basketball Team as selected by CoSIDA:
Senior All-Americans
The ten finalists for the Senior CLASS Award, called Senior All-Americans, were announced on February 8, 2019.
The first and second teams, as well as the award winner, were announced during the lead-in to the Final Four. The overall award winner is indicated in bold type.
First team
Second team
References
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All-Americans
The All-America designation is an annual honor bestowed on outstanding athletes in the United States who are considered to be among the best athletes in their respective sport. Individuals receiving this distinction are typically added to an Al ...
NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans