For the second straight 12 months, Purdue’s Zach Edey is the unanimous headliner for The Related Press males’s school basketball All-America staff.
The 7-foot-4, 300-pound senior topped all 62 ballots from AP Prime 25 ballot voters in outcomes launched Tuesday. The reigning AP nationwide participant of the 12 months claimed all 58 votes final 12 months.
Tennessee’s Dalton Knecht and North Carolina’s RJ Davis joined Edey (310 factors) in a transparent high trio. Knecht (298) was a first-team choose on 56 ballots, Davis (296) on 55 and each appeared among the many high 10 gamers on each poll.
Houston’s Jamal Shead and Tristen Newton of reigning NCAA champion Connecticut rounded out the primary staff.
Edey 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 12 months for a second straight time, Edey has the prospect to be the primary participant to repeat as AP nationwide participant of the 12 months 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 bought right here due to us and we had been serving to him. Superior accomplishment for him.”
Knecht, a 6-6 switch from Northern Colorado, is the AP’s Southeastern Convention participant of the 12 months. He’s solely the fourth Volunteer to earn first-team honors, 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 just type of examine, like fairy-tale sort offers,” Vols affiliate head coach Justin Gainey mentioned. “Simply to see him get thus far and obtain what he’s achieved, it’s wonderful. However it goes to his exhausting work, his work ethic, his mindset, his confidence and perception in himself.”
Davis, a 6-0 guard, led was named the AP participant of the 12 months 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’ll be able to put the ball in our guard’s fingers and he’ll both make the fitting shot or make the fitting 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 staff that received the Large 12 regular-season crown in its first 12 months within the rugged league. The glory for Shead, the AP participant of the 12 months within the Large 12, follows the Cougars having a first-team choice final 12 months with guard Marcus Sasser.
Newton, a 6-5 graduate, has elevated his sport to provide UConn the look of a staff that might turn into school basketball’s first repeat champion since Florida in 2006 and 2007. With the departures of Ultimate 4 most excellent participant Adama Sanogo and Jordan Hawkins, Newton elevated his scoring from 10.1 factors final 12 months to fifteen.2 factors on the best way to changing into the AP’s participant of the 12 months 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 staff and was the one different participant to earn no less than 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 12 months 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.
HONORABLE 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 honorable-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) had been the one gamers to get greater than 15 factors in voting from that group.
The honorable-mention checklist additionally included Bacot, a preseason All-American choose who was a third-team All-American final 12 months.
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