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 2013 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 2012–13 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. All selectors choose at least a first and second 5-man team. The NABC, TSN and AP choose third teams, while AP also lists honorable mention selections.
The Consensus 2013 College Basketball All-American team is 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 the 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.
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 Fox Sports, and Yahoo! Sports. The scholar-athletes selected by College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) are termed Academic All-Americans.
2013 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 Trey Burke PG Sophomore Michigan Doug McDermott SF Junior Creighton Victor Oladipo SG Junior Indiana Kelly Olynyk PF/C Junior Gonzaga Otto Porter F Sophomore Georgetown
+ Consensus Second Team Player Position Class Team Ben McLemore SG Freshman Kansas Mason Plumlee PF/C Senior Duke Marcus Smart PG Freshman Oklahoma State Jeff Withey C Senior Kansas Cody Zeller PF Sophomore Indiana
Individual All-America teams Player School AP USBWA NABC TSN CPNotes MichiganNational Player of the Year (AP, NABC Player of the Year, Naismith College Player of the Year, Robertson, SI, Wooden) and Bob Cousy Award Indiana National Player of the Year (TSN Rupp) and NABC Co-Defensive Player of the Year Gonzaga Georgetown Creighton Oklahoma StateFreshman of the Year (TSN, USBWA) Kansas Indiana Duke Pete Newell Big Man Award KansasNABC Co-Defensive Player of the Year Miami (Florida) Lute Olson Award Ohio State Louisville California Duke UCLA South Dakota State Virginia Tech NCAA scoring leader
By team All-America Team First team Second team Third teamPlayer SchoolPlayer SchoolPlayer School Associated Press Trey Burke Michigan Shane Larkin Miami (Florida) Erick Green Virginia Tech Doug McDermott Creighton Ben McLemore Kansas Russ Smith Louisville Victor Oladipo Indiana Mason Plumlee Duke Deshaun Thomas Ohio State Kelly Olynyk Gonzaga Marcus Smart Oklahoma State Jeff Withey Kansas Otto Porter Georgetown Cody Zeller Indiana Nate Wolters South Dakota State USBWA Trey Burke Michigan Ben McLemore Kansas No third team Doug McDermott Creighton Mason Plumlee Duke Victor Oladipo Indiana Marcus Smart Oklahoma State Kelly Olynyk Gonzaga Jeff Withey Kansas Otto Porter Georgetown Cody Zeller Indiana NABC Trey Burke Michigan Marcus Smart Oklahoma State Jeff Withey Kansas Victor Oladipo Indiana Ben McLemore Kansas Deshaun Thomas Ohio State Kelly Olynyk Gonzaga Cody Zeller Indiana Russ Smith Louisville Otto Porter Georgetown Mason Plumlee Duke Allen Crabbe California Doug McDermott Creighton Shane Larkin Miami (Florida) Nate Wolters South Dakota State Sporting News Trey Burke Michigan Seth Curry Duke Allen Crabbe California Victor Oladipo Indiana Doug McDermott Creighton Shane Larkin Miami (Florida) Kelly Olynyk Gonzaga Shabazz Muhammad UCLA Ben McLemore Kansas Otto Porter Georgetown Deshaun Thomas Ohio State Russ Smith Louisville Marcus Smart Oklahoma State Jeff Withey Kansas Cody Zeller Indiana AP Honorable Mention:
Kyle Barone, Idaho Jerrelle Benimon, Towson Anthony Bennett, UNLV Tommy Brenton, Stony Brook Sherwood Brown, Florida Gulf Coast Isaiah Canaan, Murray State Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Georgia Michael Carter-Williams, Syracuse Ian Clark, Belmont Jake Cohen, Davidson Jack Cooley, Notre Dame D. J. Cooper, Ohio Allen Crabbe, California Aaron Craft, Ohio State Seth Curry, Duke Matthew Dellavedova, Saint Mary's Gorgui Dieng, Louisville James Ennis, Long Beach State Chris Flores, NJIT Jamaal Franklin, San Diego State Ian Hummer, Princeton Colton Iverson, Colorado State Joe Jackson, Memphis Kareem Jamar, Montana Lamont Jones, Iona Ray McCallum, Jr., Detroit Rodney McGruder, Kansas State Shabazz Muhammad, UCLA Erik Murphy, Florida Mike Muscala, Bucknell Stan Okoye, VMI Jamal Olasewere, Long Island Phil Pressey, Missouri Augustine Rubit, South Alabama Peyton Siva, Louisville Taylor Smith, Stephen F. Austin Omar Strong, Texas Southern Kendall Williams, New Mexico Pendarvis Williams, Norfolk State Khalif Wyatt, Temple
Academic All-Americans On February 21, 2013, CoSIDA and Capital One announced the 2013 Academic All-America team, with Aaron Craft headlining the University Division as the men's college basketball Academic All-American of the Year. The following is the 2012–13 Capital One Academic All-America Men's Basketball Team (University Division) as selected by CoSIDA:
+ First Team Player School Class GPA and major Aaron Craft Ohio State Junior 3.92 Nutrition/Pre-Med Mason Plumlee Duke Senior 3.36 Psychology Matthew Sullivan Brown Senior 4.00 Economics Kelly Olynyk Gonzaga Junior 3.53 AccountingOlynyk graduated in December 2012 and enrolled in Gonzaga's MBA program for what proved to be his final semester of basketball at the school. The reported GPA is his final undergraduate mark. Cody Zeller Indiana Sophomore 3.44 Business + Second Team Player School Class GPA and major Matthew Dellavedova Saint Mary's Senior 3.40 Psychology Ben Averkamp Loyola Senior 3.80 Biology Nathan Healy Appalachian State Senior 3.99 Management Peyton Siva Louisville Senior 3.37 Sociology Andrew Smith Butler Senior 3.54 Finance + Third Team Player School Class GPA and major Jordan Hulls Indiana Graduate Student 3.49 Athletic Administration Mike Muscala Bucknell Senior 3.36 Management Marc Trasolini Santa Clara Graduate Student 3.60 Finance Mathias Ward Montana Graduate Student 3.69 Business (M.B.A.) Darren White Campbell Senior 3.66 Information Security & Tech.
Senior All-Americans The ten finalists for the Senior CLASS Award are called Senior All-Americans. The 10 honorees are as follows: Jordan Hulls won the Senior CLASS Award. Player School Matthew Dellavedova Saint Mary's Mike Groselle The Citadel Jordan Hulls Indiana Jonathan Lee Northeastern CJ McCollum Lehigh Mike Muscala Bucknell Mason Plumlee Duke Peyton Siva Louisville Andrew Smith Butler Marc Trasolini Santa Clara
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