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.[ 1] The 2021 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), Sporting News (SN), and the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) for the 2020–21 NCAA Division I men's basketball season . All selectors choose three teams, while AP also lists honorable mention selections.
2021 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans Members of the 2021 Consensus All-America first team. Clockwise from upper left: Butler, Cunningham, Garza, Dosunmu (not pictured: Kispert).
Awarded for 2020–21 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
The Consensus 2021 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.[ 2] 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.[ 3]
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 .
2021 Consensus All-America team
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Individual All-America teams
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Player
School
AP
USBWA
NABC
SN
CP
Notes
Jared Butler
Baylor
1
1
1
1
12
NCAA Final Four Most Outstanding Player
Cade Cunningham
Oklahoma State
1
1
1
1
12
USBWA National Freshman of the Year , Sporting News Freshman of the Year, Big 12 Player of the Year
Ayo Dosunmu
Illinois
1
1
1
1
12
Bob Cousy Award
Luka Garza
Iowa
1
1
1
1
12
Naismith Player of the Year , Wooden Award , AP Player of the Year , Oscar Robertson Trophy , Sporting News Player of the Year , NABC Player of the Year , Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award , Pete Newell Big Man Award , Lute Olson Award , Senior CLASS Award , Big Ten Player of the Year
Corey Kispert
Gonzaga
1
1
1
1
12
Julius Erving Award , WCC Player of the Year , Academic All-American of the Year
Kofi Cockburn
Illinois
2
2
2
2
8
Hunter Dickinson
Michigan
2
2
2
2
8
Evan Mobley
USC
2
2
2
2
8
Pac-12 Player of the Year
Jalen Suggs
Gonzaga
2
2
2
2
8
Drew Timme
Gonzaga
2
2
2
2
8
Karl Malone Award
Quentin Grimes
Houston
3
3
3
3
4
AAC co-Player of the Year
Trayce Jackson-Davis
Indiana
3
3
3
3
Davion Mitchell
Baylor
3
3
3
3
NABC Defensive Player of the Year , Lefty Driesell Award , Naismith Defensive Player of the Year
Chris Duarte
Oregon
3
3
2
Jerry West Award
Collin Gillespie
Villanova
3
3
2
Big East co-Player of the Year , Robert V. Geasey Trophy
Herbert Jones
Alabama
3
3
2
SEC Player of the Year
Jeremiah Robinson-Earl
Villanova
3
3
2
Big East co-Player of the Year
Charles Bassey
Western Kentucky
3
1
C-USA Player of the Year
Cameron Krutwig
Loyola Chicago
3
1
MVC Player of the Year
AP Honorable Mention:
Max Abmas , Oral Roberts
Joël Ayayi , Gonzaga
Alex Barcello , BYU
Scottie Barnes , Florida State
Charles Bassey, Western Kentucky
James Bouknight , UConn
Justin Champagnie , Pittsburgh
Derek Culver , West Virginia
Antoine Davis , Detroit Mercy
Kendric Davis , SMU
David Duke , Providence
Collin Gillespie, Villanova
RaiQuan Gray , Florida State
Sam Hauser , Virginia
Jay Huff , Virginia
Nah'Shon Hyland , VCU
Trayce Jackson-Davis, Indiana
Andrew Jones , Texas
Carlik Jones , Louisville
E. J. Liddell , Ohio State
Isaiah Livers , Michigan
Sandro Mamukelashvili , Seton Hall
JaQuori McLaughlin , UC Santa Barbara
Tre Mann , Florida
Remy Martin , Arizona State
Miles McBride , West Virginia
Mac McClung , Texas Tech
Matt Mitchell , San Diego State
Moses Moody , Arkansas
Scotty Pippen Jr. , Vanderbilt
Neemias Queta , Utah State
Austin Reaves , Oklahoma
Jeremiah Robinson-Earl, Villanova
Jaden Shackelford , Alabama
Terry Taylor , Austin Peay
MaCio Teague , Baylor
Cameron Thomas , LSU
Franz Wagner , Michigan
Trevion Williams , Purdue
McKinley Wright IV , Colorado
Moses Wright , Georgia Tech
Marcus Zegarowski , Creighton
Academic All-Americans
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Senior All-Americans
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The 10 finalists for the Senior CLASS Award , called Senior All-Americans, were announced on February 22, 2021.[ 9] Luka Garza of Iowa was named the recipient on April 2, with the first and second teams also being announced at that time.[ 10]
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^ "Award Winners: Division I Consensus All-America Selections" (PDF) . National Collegiate Athletic Association . 2017. p. 2. Archived (PDF) from the original on February 28, 2018. Retrieved February 20, 2014 .
^ "2009–10 NCAA Statistics Policies (updated 9/2/2009)" . National Collegiate Athletic Association . September 2, 2009. Archived from the original on June 12, 2010. Retrieved February 20, 2014 .
^ "The Associated Press Men's All-America Teams" . Associated Press . March 16, 2021. Archived from the original on March 17, 2021.
^ "USBWA names men's All-American team; Oscar Robertson Trophy finalists" . United States Basketball Writers Association . March 17, 2021. Retrieved March 17, 2021 .
^ "2020-21 NABC Division I All-America Teams Announced" . National Association of Basketball Coaches . March 18, 2021. Retrieved March 18, 2021 .
^ DeCourcy, Mike (March 9, 2021). "Sporting News' 2020-21 college basketball All-Americans" . Sporting News . Retrieved March 9, 2021 .
^ "Corey Kispert of Gonzaga, Aliyah Boston of South Carolina Lead Academic All-America® NCAA Division I Men's & Women's Basketball Teams" (PDF) (Press release). College Sports Information Directors of America. May 28, 2021. Retrieved May 30, 2021 .
^ "Men's and Women's Basketball Finalists Announced for the 2020-21 Senior CLASS Award" (Press release). Premier Sports Management. February 22, 2021. Retrieved March 2, 2021 .
^ "Iowa's Luka Garza Wins 2020-21 Senior CLASS Award® for Men's Basketball" (Press release). Premier Sports Management. April 2, 2021. Retrieved April 2, 2021 .