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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 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.
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.
PG – Point guard
SG – Shooting guard
PF – Power forward
SF – Small forward
C – Center
| Player | Position | Class | Team | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jared Butler | PG | Junior | Baylor | |
| Cade Cunningham | PG/SG | Freshman | Oklahoma State | |
| Ayo Dosunmu | SG | Junior | Illinois | |
| Luka Garza | C | Senior | Iowa | |
| Corey Kispert | SF | Senior | Gonzaga |
| Player | Position | Class | Team | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kofi Cockburn | C | Sophomore | Illinois | |
| Hunter Dickinson | C | Freshman | Michigan | |
| Evan Mobley | PF/C | Freshman | Southern California | |
| Jalen Suggs | PG/SG | Freshman | Gonzaga | |
| Drew Timme | PF | Sophomore | Gonzaga |
| 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" | NCAA Final Four Most Outstanding Player | ||||||||
| data-sort-value="01" | data-sort-value="01" | data-sort-value="01" | data-sort-value="01" | data-sort-value="12" | USBWA National Freshman of the Year, Sporting News Freshman of the Year, Big 12 Player of the Year | ||||||||
| data-sort-value="01" | data-sort-value="01" | data-sort-value="01" | data-sort-value="01" | data-sort-value="12" | Bob Cousy Award | ||||||||
| data-sort-value="01" | data-sort-value="01" | data-sort-value="01" | data-sort-value="01" | data-sort-value="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 | ||||||||
| data-sort-value="01" | data-sort-value="01" | data-sort-value="01" | data-sort-value="01" | data-sort-value="12" | Julius Erving Award, WCC Player of the Year, Academic All-American of the Year | ||||||||
| Illinois | 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" | Pac-12 Player of the Year | ||||||||
| Gonzaga | data-sort-value="02" | data-sort-value="02" | data-sort-value="02" | data-sort-value="02" | data-sort-value="08" | ||||||||
| Gonzaga | data-sort-value="02" | data-sort-value="02" | data-sort-value="02" | data-sort-value="02" | data-sort-value="08" | Karl Malone Award | |||||||
| data-sort-value="03" | data-sort-value="03" | data-sort-value="03" | data-sort-value="03" | data-sort-value="04" | AAC co-Player of the Year | ||||||||
| data-sort-value="10" | data-sort-value="03" | data-sort-value="03" | data-sort-value="03" | data-sort-value="03" | |||||||||
| Baylor | data-sort-value="03" | data-sort-value="10" | data-sort-value="03" | data-sort-value="03" | data-sort-value="03" | NABC Defensive Player of the Year, Lefty Driesell Award, Naismith Defensive Player of the Year | |||||||
| data-sort-value="03" | data-sort-value="03" | data-sort-value="10" | data-sort-value="10" | data-sort-value="02" | Jerry West Award | ||||||||
| data-sort-value="10" | data-sort-value="03" | data-sort-value="03" | data-sort-value="10" | data-sort-value="02" | Big East co-Player of the Year, Robert V. Geasey Trophy | ||||||||
| data-sort-value="03" | data-sort-value="10" | data-sort-value="10" | data-sort-value="03" | data-sort-value="02" | SEC Player of the Year | ||||||||
| Villanova | data-sort-value="10" | data-sort-value="10" | data-sort-value="03" | data-sort-value="03" | data-sort-value="02" | Big East co-Player of the Year | |||||||
| data-sort-value="10" | data-sort-value="03" | data-sort-value="10" | data-sort-value="10" | data-sort-value="01" | C-USA Player of the Year | ||||||||
| data-sort-value="03" | data-sort-value="10" | data-sort-value="10" | data-sort-value="10" | data-sort-value="01" | MVC Player of the Year |
| All-America Team | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First team | Second team | Third team | ||||
| Player | School | Player | School | Player | School | |
| Associated Press[4] | Illinois | Oregon | ||||
| Houston | ||||||
| Alabama | ||||||
| Gonzaga | Loyola Chicago | |||||
| Gonzaga | Baylor | |||||
| USBWA[5] | Jared Butler | Baylor | Kofi Cockburn | Illinois | Western Kentucky | |
| Cade Cunningham | Oklahoma State | Hunter Dickinson | Michigan | Chris Duarte | Oregon | |
| Ayo Dosunmu | Illinois | Evan Mobley | USC | Villanova | ||
| Luka Garza | Iowa | Jalen Suggs | Gonzaga | Quentin Grimes | Houston | |
| Corey Kispert | Gonzaga | Drew Timme | Gonzaga | Indiana | ||
| NABC[6] | Jared Butler | Baylor | Kofi Cockburn | Illinois | Collin Gillespie | Villanova |
| Cade Cunningham | Oklahoma State | Hunter Dickinson | Michigan | Quentin Grimes | Houston | |
| Ayo Dosunmu | Illinois | Evan Mobley | USC | Trayce Jackson-Davis | Indiana | |
| Luka Garza | Iowa | Jalen Suggs | Gonzaga | Davion Mitchell | Baylor | |
| Corey Kispert | Gonzaga | Drew Timme | Gonzaga | Villanova | ||
| Sporting News[7] | ||||||
| Jared Butler | Baylor | Kofi Cockburn | Illinois | Quentin Grimes | Houston | |
| Cade Cunningham | Oklahoma State | Hunter Dickinson | Michigan | Trayce Jackson-Davis | Indiana | |
| Ayo Dosunmu | Illinois | Evan Mobley | USC | Herbert Jones | Alabama | |
| Luka Garza | Iowa | Jalen Suggs | Gonzaga | Davion Mitchell | Baylor | |
| Corey Kispert | Gonzaga | Drew Timme | Gonzaga | Jeremiah Robinson-Earl | Villanova | |
AP Honorable Mention:
The College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) announced its 15-member 2021 Academic All-America team on May 28, 2021, divided into first, second and third teams, with Corey Kispert of Gonzaga chosen as men's college basketball Academic All-American of the Year.[8]
| Player | School | Class | GPA and major | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corey Kispert | Gonzaga | GS | 3.49/3.79, Business Administration | |
| Max Abmas | Oral Roberts | Sr. | 3.69, Biomedical Chemistry | |
| Ian DuBose | Wake Forest | GS | 3.84/3.80, Liberal Studies | |
| Matt Pile | Omaha | Sr. | 3.95, Chemistry | |
| Franz Wagner | Michigan | So. | 4.00, Organizational Studies |
| Player | School | Class | GPA and major | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charles Bassey | Western Kentucky | Jr. | 3.57, Interdisciplinary Studies | |
| Oscar da Silva | Stanford | Sr. | 3.49, Biology | |
| Cameron Krutwig | Loyola Chicago | Sr. | 3.45, Entrepreneurship | |
| Hunter Schofield | Dixie State | Sr. | 3.94, Exercise Science | |
| Ben Vander Plas | Ohio | GS | 4.00/4.00, Sports Administration |
| Player | School | Class | GPA and major | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tareq Coburn | Hofstra | Sr. | 3.74, Community Health | |
| Cam Davis | Navy | Sr. | 3.46, Ocean Engineering | |
| Matt Dentlinger | South Dakota State | Sr. | 4.00, Mechanical Engineering | |
| Brady Manek | Oklahoma | GS | 3.63, Management (UG) / MBA (G) | |
| Jeremiah Robinson-Earl | Villanova | So. | 3.56, Communication | |
| Luke Smith | Belmont | Sr. | 3.65, Business Administration | |
| Kobe Webster | Nebraska | GS | 3.75/3.75, Educational Administration |
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]
| Player | Position | School | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Center | Iowa | ||
| Guard | Siena | ||
| Ross Cummings | Guard | Mercer | |
| Guard | Kansas | ||
| Forward | Gonzaga |
| Player | Position | School | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cam Davis | Guard | Navy | |
| Guard | Villanova | ||
| Center | Loyola Chicago | ||
| Forward | Stanford | ||
| Guard | Bowling Green |