For the second straight yr, Purdue’s Zach Edey is the unanimous headliner for The Related Press males’s school basketball All-America workforce.
The seven-foot-four, 300-pound Canadian senior topped all 62 ballots from AP Prime 25 ballot voters in outcomes launched Tuesday. The reigning AP nationwide participant of the yr claimed all 58 votes final yr.
Tennessee’s Dalton Knecht and North Carolina’s RJ Davis joined Edey (310 factors) in a transparent prime trio. Knecht (298) was a first-team choose on 56 ballots, Davis (296) on 55 and each appeared among the many prime 10 gamers on each poll.
Houston’s Jamal Shead and Tristen Newton of reigning NCAA champion Connecticut rounded out the primary workforce.
Edey, a Toronto native, leads the nation in scoring at 24.4 factors and ranks third in rebounding (11.7). Named the AP’s Large Ten participant of the yr for a second straight time, Edey has the possibility to be the primary participant to repeat as AP nationwide participant of the yr since one other 7-4 star: Virginia’s Ralph Sampson in 1981, 1982 and 1983.
Edey turned Purdue’s profession scoring chief throughout a loss to Wisconsin within the Large Ten Match.
“The factor right here is, on the finish of the day, he received’t take credit score for himself,” teammate Braden Smith mentioned. “He’ll at all times level to us and say he received right here due to us and we have been serving to him. Superior accomplishment for him.”
Knecht, a six-foot-six switch from Northern Colorado, is the AP’s Southeastern Convention participant of the yr. He’s solely the fourth Volunteer to earn first-team honours, becoming a member of Grant Williams (2019), Dale Ellis (1983) and Bernard King (1977) after averaging 21.1 factors to assist the Volunteers win their first SEC regular-season crown since 2008.
“His journey is one that you simply form of examine, like fairy-tale kind offers,” Vols affiliate head coach Justin Gainey mentioned. “Simply to see him get up to now and obtain what he’s achieved, it’s superb. But it surely goes to his arduous work, his work ethic, his mindset, his confidence and perception in himself.”
Davis, a 6-0 guard, was named the AP participant of the yr for the Atlantic Coast Convention after averaging a league-best 21.4 factors. He’s UNC’s first first-team AP All-American since 2017.
“RJ has been our nearer, and in (shut video games) it’s an enormous luxurious to know you may put the ball in our guard’s fingers and he’ll both make the suitable shot or make the suitable play,” large man Armando Bacot mentioned of Davis in the course of the ACC Match.
Shead, a 6-1 senior, has been the ground chief for a Houston workforce that received the Large 12 regular-season crown in its first yr within the rugged league. The honour for Shead, the AP participant of the yr within the Large 12, follows the Cougars having a first-team choice final yr with guard Marcus Sasser.
Newton, a six-foot-five graduate pupil, has elevated his sport to provide UConn the look of a workforce that might turn into school basketball’s first repeat champion since Florida in 2006 and 2007. With the departures of Last 4 most excellent gamers Adama Sanogo and Jordan Hawkins, Newton elevated his scoring from 10.1 factors final yr to fifteen.2 factors on the best way to changing into the AP’s participant of the yr within the Large East for the league champion.
Newton is UConn’s first first-team AP All-American since Shabazz Napier in 2014.
SECOND TEAM
Marquette’s Tyler Kolek headlined the second workforce and was the one different participant to earn a minimum of 10 first-team votes. The guard was an AP third-team All-American final season.
Alabama’s Mark Sears joined Kolek within the backcourt of that second quintet, which boasts an imposing entrance line with Dayton’s DaRon Holmes II (6-10), Duke’s Kyle Filipowski (7-0) and Kansas’ Hunter Dickinson (7-2) — a second-team choice in 2021 when he was at Michigan.
THIRD TEAM
San Diego State’s Jaedon LeDee led the third-team alternatives, joined by Auburn’s Johni Broome, Pac-12 participant of the yr Caleb Love of Arizona and Creighton’s Baylor Scheierman.
The ultimate spot went to Illinois’ Terrence Shannon Jr. (54 factors), the nation’s No. 3 scorer at 23 factors per sport.
HONOURABLE MENTION
Kentucky’s Antonio Reeves and Kansas’ Kevin McCullar Jr. completed proper behind Shannon to face because the main vote-getters amongst gamers who didn’t make the All-America groups.
Gamers earned honourable-mention standing in the event that they appeared on a number of voters’ ballots. Whereas 21 gamers certified, Reeves (52), McCullar (52) and Windfall’s Devin Carter (36) have been the one gamers to get greater than 15 factors in voting from that group.
The honourable-mention listing additionally included Bacot, a preseason All-American choose who was a third-team All-American final yr.
