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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 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.[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.
PG – Point guard
SG – Shooting guard
PF – Power forward
SF – Small forward
C – Center
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Player | School | AP | USBWA | NABC | SN | CP | Notes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| data-sort-value="01" | data-sort-value="01" | data-sort-value="01" | data-sort-value="01" | data-sort-value="12" | Sporting News Player of the Year, Pete Newell Big Man Award, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award | ||||||||
| data-sort-value="01" | data-sort-value="01" | data-sort-value="01" | data-sort-value="01" | data-sort-value="12" | Senior CLASS Award | ||||||||
| data-sort-value="01" | data-sort-value="01" | data-sort-value="01" | data-sort-value="01" | data-sort-value="12" | 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 | ||||||||
| data-sort-value="01" | data-sort-value="01" | data-sort-value="02" | data-sort-value="01" | data-sort-value="11" | Jerry West Award | ||||||||
| data-sort-value="01" | data-sort-value="02" | data-sort-value="01" | data-sort-value="01" | data-sort-value="11" | Lute Olson Award, Bob Cousy Award | ||||||||
| data-sort-value="02" | data-sort-value="01" | data-sort-value="01" | data-sort-value="02" | data-sort-value="10" | NABC Defensive Player of the Year | ||||||||
| Kansas | data-sort-value="02" | data-sort-value="02" | data-sort-value="02" | data-sort-value="02" | data-sort-value="08" | ||||||||
| data-sort-value="02" | data-sort-value="02" | data-sort-value="02" | data-sort-value="02" | data-sort-value="08" | |||||||||
| data-sort-value="02" | data-sort-value="02" | data-sort-value="02" | data-sort-value="02" | data-sort-value="08" | |||||||||
| data-sort-value="02" | data-sort-value="02" | data-sort-value="03" | data-sort-value="02" | data-sort-value="7" | USBWA Freshman of the Year, NABC Freshman of the Year | ||||||||
| data-sort-value="03" | data-sort-value="03" | data-sort-value="02" | data-sort-value="03" | data-sort-value="5" | |||||||||
| data-sort-value="03" | data-sort-value="03" | data-sort-value="03" | data-sort-value="03" | data-sort-value="4" | |||||||||
| data-sort-value="03" | data-sort-value="03" | data-sort-value="03" | data-sort-value="03" | data-sort-value="4" | |||||||||
| data-sort-value="03" | data-sort-value="03" | data-sort-value="03" | data-sort-value="03" | data-sort-value="04" | |||||||||
| Duke | data-sort-value="03" | data-sort-value="03" | data-sort-value="03" | data-sort-value="3" | |||||||||
| data-sort-value="03" | data-sort-value="03" | data-sort-value="01" |
| All-America Team | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First team | Second team | Third team | ||||
| Player | School | Player | School | Player | School | |
| Associated Press[4] | Baylor | |||||
| Duke | ||||||
| Kansas | Louisville | |||||
| Gonzaga | ||||||
| Maryland | ||||||
| USBWA[5] | 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[6] | 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[7] | ||||||
| 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 | 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:[4]
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.[8]
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
The 10 finalists for the Senior CLASS Award, called Senior All-Americans, were announced on February 5, 2020.[9] On March 31, Markus Howard was announced as the recipient, with the first and second teams also announced at that time.[10]
| Player | Position | School | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Markus Howard | Guard | Marquette | |
| Center | Kansas | ||
| Guard | Utah State | ||
| Guard | Seton Hall | ||
| Guard | Michigan State |
| Player | Position | School | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Forward | BYU | ||
| Guard | Dartmouth | ||
| Center | William & Mary | ||
| Guard | LSU | ||
| Forward | Penn State |