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 2020 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 2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. All selectors choose three teams, while AP also lists honorable mention selections.

The Consensus 2020 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 (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 Senior CLASS Award are described as Senior All-Americans. Other All-American lists include those determined by USA Today, Fox Sports, Yahoo! Sports and many others. The scholar-athletes selected by College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) are termed Academic All-Americans.

2020 Consensus All-America team

PG – Point guard SG – Shooting guard PF – Power forward SF – Small forward C – Center

+ Consensus First Team Player Position Class Team Luka Garza C Junior Iowa Markus Howard PG Senior Marquette Myles Powell PG/SG Senior Seton Hall Payton Pritchard PG Senior Oregon Obi Toppin PF Sophomore Dayton

+ Consensus Second Team Player Position Class Team Udoka Azubuike C Senior Kansas Vernon Carey Jr. PF Freshman Duke Devon Dotson PG Sophomore Kansas Malachi Flynn PG/SG Junior San Diego State Cassius Winston PG Senior Michigan State

Individual All-America teams

By player PlayerSchoolAPUSBWANABCSNCPNotes Luka Garza Iowa Sporting News Player of the Year, Pete Newell Big Man Award, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award Markus Howard Marquette Senior CLASS Award Obi Toppin Dayton John R. Wooden Award, AP Player of the Year, Oscar Robertson Trophy, NABC Player of the Year, Naismith Player of the Year, Karl Malone Award Myles Powell Seton Hall Jerry West Award Payton Pritchard Oregon Lute Olson Award, Bob Cousy Award Udoka Azubuike Kansas NABC Defensive Player of the Year Devon Dotson Kansas Malachi Flynn San Diego State Cassius Winston Michigan State Vernon Carey Jr. Duke USBWA Freshman of the Year, NABC Freshman of the Year Filip Petrušev Gonzaga Jared Butler Baylor Jordan Nwora Louisville Jalen Smith Maryland Tre Jones Duke Daniel Oturu Minnesota

By team All-America Team First team Second team Third teamPlayer SchoolPlayer SchoolPlayer School Associated Press Luka Garza Iowa Udoka Azubuike Kansas Jared Butler Baylor Markus Howard Marquette Vernon Carey Jr. Duke Tre Jones Duke Myles Powell Seton Hall Devon Dotson Kansas Jordan Nwora Louisville Payton Pritchard Oregon Malachi Flynn San Diego State Filip Petrušev Gonzaga Obi Toppin Dayton Cassius Winston Michigan State Jalen Smith Maryland USBWA Udoka Azubuike Kansas Vernon Carey Jr. Duke Jared Butler Baylor Luka Garza Iowa Devon Dotson Kansas Tre Jones Duke Markus Howard Marquette Malachi Flynn San Diego State Jordan Nwora Louisville Myles Powell Seton Hall Payton Pritchard Oregon Filip Petrušev Gonzaga Obi Toppin Dayton Cassius Winston Michigan State Jalen Smith Maryland NABC Udoka Azubuike Kansas Devon Dotson Kansas Jared Butler Baylor Luka Garza Iowa Malachi Flynn San Diego State Vernon Carey Jr. Duke Markus Howard Marquette Filip Petrušev Gonzaga Tre Jones Duke Payton Pritchard Oregon Myles Powell Seton Hall Jordan Nwora Louisville Obi Toppin Dayton Cassius Winston Michigan State Jalen Smith Maryland Sporting News Luka Garza Iowa Udoka Azubuike Kansas Jared Butler Baylor Markus Howard Marquette Vernon Carey Jr. Duke Jordan Nwora Louisville Myles Powell Seton Hall Devon Dotson Kansas Daniel Oturu Minnesota Payton Pritchard Oregon Malachi Flynn San Diego State Filip Petrušev Gonzaga Obi Toppin Dayton Cassius Winston Michigan State Jalen Smith Maryland

AP Honorable Mention: Saddiq Bey, Villanova Mason Jones, Arkansas Daniel Oturu, Minnesota Immanuel Quickley, Kentucky Marcus Zegarowski, Creighton

Academic All-Americans The College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) announced its 15-member 2020 Academic All-America team on March 9, 2020, divided into first, second and third teams with Skylar Mays of LSU chosen as men's college basketball Academic All-American of the Year.

+ First Team Player School Class GPA and major Skylar Mays LSU Sr. 3.93, Kinesiology/Human Movement Brooks DeBisschop Northern Arizona Sr. 3.97, Finance Christian Lutete UMass Lowell GS 3.79/4.00, Economics (UG) / Peace & Conflict Studies (G) Mason Peatling Eastern Washington GS 3.89/4.00, Finance (UG) / MBA (G) Matt Pile Omaha Jr. 3.93, Chemistry + Second Team Player School Class GPA and major Jimmy Boeheim Cornell Jr. 3.76, Applied Economics & Management Đorđe Dimitrijević Mercer Sr. 3.87, Computer Science James Foye Dartmouth Sr. 3.97, Economics Sam Merrill Utah State Sr. 3.39, Business Administration Jordan Nwora Louisville Jr. 3.40, Exercise Science Xavier Tillman Michigan State Jr. 3.63, Communication + Third Team Player School Class GPA and major Amidou Bamba Charlotte GS 3.98/4.00, Finance (UG) / MBA (G) Trent Forrest Florida State GS 3.43, Sport Management (UG & G) T. J. Haws BYU Sr. 3.46, Finance Davide Moretti Texas Tech Jr. 3.68, Human Science

Senior All-Americans The 10 finalists for the Senior CLASS Award, called Senior All-Americans, were announced on February 5, 2020. On March 31, Markus Howard was announced as the recipient, with the first and second teams also announced at that time.

First team Player PositionSchool Markus Howard Guard Marquette Udoka Azubuike Center Kansas Sam Merrill Guard Utah State Myles Powell Guard Seton Hall Cassius Winston Guard Michigan State

Second team Player PositionSchool Yoeli Childs Forward BYU James Foye Guard Dartmouth Nathan Knight Center William & Mary Skylar Mays Guard LSU Lamar Stevens Forward Penn State

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