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 media. Walter Camp selected the first All-America team in the early days of American football in 1889. The 2011 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans are honorary lists that include All-American selections from the Associated Press (AP), the United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA), the Sporting News (TSN), and the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) for the 2010–11 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 2011 College Basketball All-American team is determined by aggregating the results of the four major All-American teams as determined by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Since United Press International 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 are described as Wooden All-Americans. The ten finalists for the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award are described as Senior All-Americans. Other All-American lists include those determined by Fox Sports, and Yahoo! Sports. The scholar-athletes selected by College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) are termed Academic All-Americans.
2011 Consensus All-America team The following players are recognized as the 2011 Consensus All-Americans: PG – Point guard SG – Shooting guard PF – Power forward SF – Small forward C – Center
+ Consensus First Team Player Position Class Team Jimmer Fredette PG Senior Brigham Young JaJuan Johnson C Senior Purdue Nolan Smith PG-SG Senior Duke Jared Sullinger PF-C Freshman Ohio State Kemba Walker PG Junior Connecticut
+ Consensus Second Team Player Position Class Team Kenneth Faried PF-C Senior Morehead State Jordan Hamilton SG-SF Sophomore Texas Ben Hansbrough PG Senior Notre Dame Kawhi Leonard PF Sophomore San Diego State Marcus Morris PF-C Junior Kansas Jordan Taylor PG Junior Wisconsin Derrick Williams SF-PF Sophomore Arizona
Individual All-America teams
By player Player School AP USBWA NABC TSN CPNotes BYU National Player of the Year (AP, NABC, Naismith, Rupp, Robertson, TSN, Wooden), Lowe's Senior CLASS Award, season scoring leader Purdue Pete Newell Big Man Award Duke National Player of the Year (FOX) Ohio State USBWA National Freshman of the Year Connecticut Lute Olson Award, Bob Cousy Award, NCAA basketball tournament Most Outstanding Player Notre Dame Kansas Arizona Texas Morehead State Season rebounding leader San Diego State Wisconsin Kansas State Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award Xavier Duke Providence Hofstra Purdue
By team All-America Team First team Second team Third teamPlayer SchoolPlayer SchoolPlayer School Associated Press Jimmer Fredette Brigham Young Ben Hansbrough Notre Dame Marshon Brooks Providence JaJuan Johnson Purdue Kawhi Leonard San Diego State Kenneth Faried Morehead State Nolan Smith Duke Marcus Morris Kansas Jordan Hamilton Texas Jared Sullinger Ohio State Jordan Taylor Wisconsin Tu Holloway Xavier Kemba Walker Connecticut Derrick Williams Arizona Jacob Pullen Kansas State USBWA Jimmer Fredette Brigham Young Kenneth Faried Morehead State No third team JaJuan Johnson Purdue Jordan Hamilton Texas Nolan Smith Duke Ben Hansbrough Notre Dame Jared Sullinger Ohio State Marcus Morris Kansas Kemba Walker Connecticut Derrick Williams Arizona NABC Jimmer Fredette Brigham Young Jordan Hamilton Texas Kenneth Faried Morehead State JaJuan Johnson Purdue Ben Hansbrough Notre Dame Kawhi Leonard San Diego State Nolan Smith Duke Marcus Morris Kansas E'Twaun Moore Purdue Jared Sullinger Ohio State Kyle Singler Duke Jacob Pullen Kansas State Kemba Walker Connecticut Derrick Williams Arizona Jordan Taylor Wisconsin Sporting News Jimmer Fredette Brigham Young Ben Hansbrough Notre Dame Kenneth Faried Morehead State JaJuan Johnson Purdue Kawhi Leonard San Diego State Jordan Hamilton Texas Nolan Smith Duke Marcus Morris Kansas Tu Holloway Xavier Jared Sullinger Ohio State Jordan Taylor Wisconsin Charles Jenkins Hofstra Kemba Walker Connecticut Derrick Williams Arizona Jacob Pullen Kansas State
AP Honorable Mention:
Harrison Barnes, North Carolina Talor Battle, Penn State Devon Beitzel, Northern Colorado Keith Benson, Oakland Solomon Bozeman, Arkansas-Little Rock Alec Burks, Colorado Gilberto Clavell, Sam Houston State Norris Cole, Cleveland State Malcolm Delaney, Virginia Tech Austin Freeman, Georgetown Ashton Gibbs, Pittsburgh Andrew Goudelock, College of Charleston Justin Greene, Kent State Dwight Hardy, St. John's John Holland, Boston University Ken Horton, Central Connecticut State Reggie Jackson, Boston College Rick Jackson, Syracuse Charles Jenkins, Hofstra John Jenkins, Vanderbilt Aaron Johnson, UAB Terrence Jones, Kentucky Travele Jones, Texas Southern Brandon Knight, Kentucky Jon Leuer, Wisconsin Mickey McConnell, Saint Mary's E'Twaun Moore, Purdue Markieff Morris, Kansas Mike Muscala, Bucknell Chandler Parsons, Florida C. J. Reed, Bethune-Cookman Ryan Rossiter, Siena Jesse Sanders, Liberty Kyle Singler, Duke Mike Smith, East Tennessee State Isaiah Thomas, Washington Tristan Thompson, Texas Nikola Vucevic, Southern California Brad Wanamaker, Pittsburgh Casper Ware, Long Beach State Kyle Weems, Missouri State Tai Wesley, Utah State Jordan Williams, Maryland Isiah Williams, Utah Valley Keith Wright, Harvard
Academic All-Americans On February 22, 2011, CoSIDA and ESPN The Magazine announced the 2011 Academic All-America team, with Matt Howard headlining the University Division as the men's college basketball Academic All-American of the Year. The following is the 2010–11 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Men's Basketball Team (University Division) as selected by CoSIDA:
+ First Team Player School Class GPA and major Tim Abromaitis Notre Dame Senior 3.72 Finance/MBA Devon Beitzel Northern Colorado Senior 3.69 Finance Accounting Matt Howard Butler Senior 3.77 Finance Tyrel Reed Kansas Senior 3.65 Pre-Physical Therapy/Ex.Sci. Tyler Zeller North Carolina Junior 3.56 Business Administration + Second Team Player School Class GPA and major Nathan Hedgecock Army Senior 4.00 Mech. Engineering Management Blake Hoffarber Minnesota Senior 3.50 Finance Levi Knutson Colorado Senior 3.92 Business Administration Garrett Leffelman Brown Senior 3.89 Economics, Political Science Jalin Thomas Central Michigan Senior 3.65 Sport Studies + Third Team Player School Class GPA and major Riley Benock Mississippi State Senior 3.97 Kinesiology, Physical Educ. Will Creekmore Missouri State Senior 3.67 Finance Scott Saunders Belmont Junior 3.84 Finance Drew Spradlin Elon Junior 3.65 Political Science Chris Wroblewski Cornell Junior 3.61 App. Economics & Management
Senior All-Americans The ten finalists for the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award are called Senior All-Americans. The 10 honorees are as follows: Player School Devon Beitzel Northern Colorado Dodie Dunson Bradley Jimmer Fredette BYU Matt Howard Butler Cameron Jones Northern Arizona Jon Leuer Wisconsin David Lighty Ohio State E'Twaun Moore Purdue Tyrel Reed Kansas Kyle Singler Duke
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