2024 NCAA Women's Basketball All-Americans explained

2024 NCAA Women's Basketball All-Americans
Awarded For:2023–24 NCAA Division I women's basketball season
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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—which 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 as a unit, the term is used in U.S. team sports to refer to players who national media members select. Walter Camp selected the first All-America team in the early days of American football in 1889.[1] The 2024 NCAA Women's Basketball All-Americans are honorary lists that include All-American selections from the Associated Press (AP), the United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA), and the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) for the 2023–24 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. Both AP and USBWA choose three teams, while WBCA lists ten honorees.

A consensus All-America team in women's basketball has never been organized. This differs from the practice in men's basketball, in which the NCAA uses a combination of selections by AP, USBWA, the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC), and Sporting News to determine a consensus All-America team. The selection of a consensus All-America men's basketball team is possible because all four organizations select at least a first and second team, with only the USBWA not selecting a third team.

Before the 2017–18 season, a consensus women's All-America team couldn't be determined because the AP had been the only body that divided its women's selections into separate teams. The USBWA first named different teams in 2017–18. The women's counterpart to the NABC, the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA), continues the USBWA's former practice of selecting a single 10-member (plus ties) team. Sporting News does not select an All-America team in women's basketball.

By selector

Associated Press (AP)

Announced on March 20, 2024. The teams are selected by the same 28-member media panel that votes on the AP poll during the season. Of note:[2]

First teamSecond teamThird team
Player SchoolPlayer SchoolPlayer School
Virginia Tech
Oregon State
Syracuse
Indiana
Utah

AP Honorable Mention

Honorable mention selections are those who did not make one of the first three teams, but received at least one vote from the media panel.

United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA)

The USBWA announced its 15-member team, divided into first, second, and third teams, plus honorable mention selections, on March 15, 2023. Vote totals were not released.[3]

First teamSecond teamThird team
Player SchoolPlayer SchoolPlayer School
Cameron Brink Stanford UConn Georgia Amoore Virginia Tech
Paige Bueckers UConn Hannah HidalgoNotre Dame Madison Booker Texas
Kamilla Cardoso South Carolina Mackenzie Holmes Indiana Dyaisha FairSyracuse
Caitlin Clark Iowa Elizabeth Kitley Virginia Tech Alissa PiliUtah
Angel Reese LSU South Carolina Jacy SheldonOhio State
JuJu Watkins USC

USBWA Honorable Mention

Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA)

Announced on April 4, 2024.[4]

Player School
Madison Booker Texas
Cameron Brink Stanford
Paige Bueckers UConn
Kamilla Cardoso South Carolina
Caitlin Clark Iowa
Aaliyah Edwards UConn
Hannah HidalgoNotre Dame
Elizabeth Kitley Virginia Tech
Angel Reese LSU
JuJu Watkins USC

Academic All-Americans

College Sports Communicators (known before the 2022–23 season as the College Sports Information Directors of America) will announce its 2024 Academic All-America team on April 17, 2024.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Book: The Michigan alumnus. University of Michigan Library. 2010. B0037HO8MY. 495.
  2. News: Caitlin Clark, freshmen JuJu Watkins and Hannah Hidalgo top AP women’s All-America team . Doug . Feinberg . apnews.com . . March 20, 2024 . March 20, 2024.
  3. Web site: USBWA Unveils 2023-24 Women's All-America Team .
  4. Caitlin Clark wins second Wade Trophy, headlines 2024 WBCA NCAA Division I Coaches’ All-America team . Women's Basketball Coaches Association . April 4, 2024 . April 9, 2024.
  5. Web site: Acadamic All-America® Composite Schedule . College Sports Communicators . March 21, 2024.