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 2025 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 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. All selectors choose three teams, while AP and USBWA also list honorable mention selections.
The Consensus 2025 College Basketball All-American team will be 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.
2025 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 Johni Broome PF/C Graduate Auburn Walter Clayton Jr. PG/SG Senior Florida Cooper Flagg SF Freshman Duke Mark Sears PG Graduate Alabama Braden Smith PG Junior Purdue
+ Consensus Second Team Player Position Class Team PJ Haggerty SG Sophomore Memphis Kam Jones PG/SG Senior Marquette RJ Luis Jr. SF Junior St. John's John Tonje SG Graduate Wisconsin JT Toppin PF Sophomore Texas Tech
Individual All-America teams
By player PlayerSchoolAPUSBWANABCSNNotes Johni Broome Auburn The Sporting News Player of the Year, Pete Newell Big Man Award, Karl Malone Award, SEC Player of the Year Walter Clayton Jr. Florida NCAA Final Four Most Outstanding Player Cooper Flagg Duke John R. Wooden Award, Naismith Player of the Year, AP Player of the Year, NABC Player of the Year, Oscar Robertson Trophy, Lute Olson Award, Julius Erving Award, USBWA National Freshman of the Year, NABC Freshman of the Year, ACC Player of the Year Mark Sears Alabama Braden Smith Purdue Bob Cousy Award, Big Ten Player of the Year Kam Jones Marquette JT Toppin Texas Tech Big 12 Player of the Year PJ Haggerty Memphis AAC Player of the Year RJ Luis Jr. St. John's Big East Player of the Year, Academic All-American of the Year John Tonje Wisconsin Ryan Kalkbrenner Creighton Naismith Defensive Player of the Year, NABC Defensive Player of the Year, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award Eric Dixon Villanova Philadelphia Big 5 Player of the Year, NCAA scoring champion LJ Cryer Houston Zakai Zeigler Tennessee Hunter Dickinson Kansas Chaz Lanier Tennessee Jerry West Award
By team All-America Team First team Second team Third teamPlayer SchoolPlayer SchoolPlayer School Associated Press Johni Broome Auburn PJ Haggerty Memphis LJ Cryer Houston Walter Clayton Jr. Florida Kam Jones Marquette Hunter Dickinson Kansas Cooper Flagg Duke RJ Luis Jr. St. John's Eric Dixon Villanova Mark Sears Alabama John Tonje Wisconsin Ryan Kalkbrenner Creighton Braden Smith Purdue JT Toppin Texas Tech Zakai Zeigler Tennessee USBWA Johni Broome Auburn PJ Haggerty Memphis LJ Cryer Houston Walter Clayton Jr. Florida Kam Jones Marquette Hunter Dickinson Kansas Cooper Flagg Duke Ryan Kalkbrenner Creighton Eric Dixon Villanova Mark Sears Alabama RJ Luis Jr. St. John's John Tonje Wisconsin Braden Smith Purdue JT Toppin Texas Tech Zakai Zeigler Tennessee NABC Johni Broome Auburn Kam Jones Marquette LJ Cryer Houston Walter Clayton Jr. Florida Ryan Kalkbrenner Creighton Eric Dixon Villanova Cooper Flagg Duke RJ Luis Jr. St. John's PJ Haggerty Memphis Mark Sears Alabama John Tonje Wisconsin Chaz Lanier Tennessee Braden Smith Purdue JT Toppin Texas Tech Zakai Zeigler Tennessee The Sporting News Johni Broome Auburn Eric Dixon Villanova LJ Cryer Houston Walter Clayton Jr. Florida PJ Haggerty Memphis Ryan Kalkbrenner Creighton Cooper Flagg Duke Kam Jones Marquette Chaz Lanier Tennessee Mark Sears Alabama John Tonje Wisconsin RJ Luis Jr. St. John's Braden Smith Purdue JT Toppin Texas Tech Zakai Zeigler Tennessee AP Honorable Mention:
Nique Clifford, Colorado State Donovan Dent, New Mexico Dylan Harper, Rutgers Chucky Hepburn, Louisville Tre Johnson, Texas Curtis Jones, Iowa State Trey Kaufman-Renn, Purdue Chaz Lanier, Tennessee Derik Queen, Maryland Maxime Raynaud, Stanford Javon Small, West Virginia Bennett Stirtz, Drake
USBWA Honorable Mention: Donovan Dent, New Mexico Bennett Stirtz, Drake
Academic All-Americans College Sports Communicators announced its 2025 Academic All-America teams for all NCAA divisions and the NAIA on April 15, 2025. The Division I Academic All-American of the Year is indicated in bold.
+ First Team Player School Class GPA and major Steven Ashworth Creighton Senior 3.57, leadership Tamin Lipsey Iowa State Junior 3.69, communication studies RJ Luis Jr. St. John's Junior 3.86, sports management Nick Martinelli Northwestern Junior 3.82, communication studies Stevie Mitchell Marquette Senior 3.97, finance and information systems + Second Team Player School Class GPA and major Jaden Akins Michigan State Senior 3.58 (UG)/3.50 (G), strategic communications Tytan Anderson Northern Iowa Senior 3.84, business administration Tyson Degenhart Boise State Senior 3.92, finance Zuby Ejiofor St. John's Junior 3.82, sports management Sion James Duke Graduate 3.78 (UG)/3.76 (G), continuing studies Gibson Jimerson Saint Louis Graduate 3.93 (UG)/3.82 (G), organizational development Michael Rataj Oregon State Junior 3.99, biohealth sciences Blaise Threatt Weber State Senior 4.00, professional sales + Third Team Player School Class GPA and major Masen Miller North Dakota State Graduate 3.93 (UG), finance; 4.00 (G), business administration Payton Sandfort Iowa Senior 3.81, finance
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