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2018 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
The 2018 consensus first team. Clockwise from top left: Ayton, Bagley, Young, Graham, Brunson.
Awarded for	2017–18 NCAA Division I men'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—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 2018 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 2017–18 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 2018 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 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 the first team and the next five plus ties are the 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 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.

2018 Consensus All-America team

PG – Point guard

SG – Shooting guard

PF – Power forward

SF – Small forward

C – Center

Individual All-America teams

By player

By team

AP Honorable Mention:

• Jaylen Adams, St. Bonaventure
• Peyton Aldridge, Davidson
• Grayson Allen, Duke
• Mo Bamba, Texas
• Trae Bell-Haynes, Vermont
• Joel Berry II, North Carolina
• Bogdan Bliznyuk, Eastern Washington
• Desonta Bradford, East Tennessee St.
• Tony Carr, Penn State
• Gary Clark, Cincinnati
• Xavier Cooks, Winthrop
• Jermaine Crumpton, Canisius
• Clayton Custer, Loyola (Illinois)
• Mike Daum, South Dakota State
• Ángel Delgado, Seton Hall
• Kahlil Dukes, Niagara
• Tre'Shaun Fletcher, Toledo
• Marcus Foster, Creighton
• Brandon Goodwin, Florida Gulf Coast
• Isaac Haas, Purdue
• Aaron Holiday, UCLA
• Jordan Howard, Central Arkansas
• Jemerrio Jones, New Mexico State
• Nick King, Middle Tennessee
• Kevin Knox II, Kentucky
• Fletcher Magee, Wofford
• Caleb Martin, Nevada
• Kelan Martin, Butler
• Yante Maten, Georgia
• Martaveous McKnight, Arkansas–Pine Bluff
• Kendrick Nunn, Oakland
• Shamorie Ponds, St. John's
• Jerome Robinson, Boston College
• Junior Robinson, Mount St. Mary's
• Collin Sexton, Alabama
• Landry Shamet, Wichita State
• T. J. Shorts, UC Davis
• D'Marcus Simonds, Georgia State
• Jonathan Stark, Murray State
• Brandon Tabb, Bethune–Cookman
• Zach Thomas, Bucknell
• Seth Towns, Harvard
• Allonzo Trier, Arizona
• Grant Williams, Tennessee
• Johnathan Williams, Gonzaga
• Justin Wright-Foreman, Hofstra

Academic All-Americans

On March 12, 2018, the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) announced the 2018 Academic All-America team, with Jevon Carter headlining the NCAA Division I team as the men's college basketball Academic All-American of the Year. The following is the 2017–18 Academic All-America Division I Men’s Basketball Team as selected by CoSIDA:

1. First-team selection in 2016–17 and third-team selection in 2015–16
2. Third-team selection in 2015–16
3. Second-team selection in 2016–17
4. First-team selection in 2015-16 and 2016-17

Senior All-Americans

The ten finalists for the Senior CLASS Award are called Senior All-Americans. The first and second teams, as well as the award winner, were announced during the lead-in to the Final Four. The overall award winner is indicated in bold type.

First team

Second team

References

1. The Michigan alumnus. University of Michigan Library. 2010. p. 495. ASIN B0037HO8MY.
2. "Award Winners: Division I Consensus All-America Selections" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association. 2017. p. 2. Archived (PDF) from the original on February 28, 2018. Retrieved February 20, 2014.
3. "2009–10 NCAA Statistics Policies (updated 9/2/2009)". National Collegiate Athletic Association. September 2, 2009. Archived from the original on June 12, 2010. Retrieved February 20, 2014.
4. ^ "3 freshmen headline AP All-America team for first time". Associated Press. March 27, 2018. Archived from the original on June 12, 2018. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
5. "USBWA Names Men's All-America Team" (Press release). United States Basketball Writers Association. March 12, 2018. Retrieved March 12, 2018.
6. "NABC Announces Division I All-America Team" (Press release). National Association of Basketball Coaches. Retrieved March 21, 2018.
7. DeCourcy, Mike (March 5, 2018). "Sporting News 2017-18 college basketball All-Americans". Sporting News. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
8. "2017-18 Academic All-America® NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Team Announced" (Press release). College Sports Information Directors of America. March 12, 2018. Retrieved March 12, 2018.
9. "West Virginia's Jevon Carter Wins 2017-18 Senior CLASS Award for Men's Basketball" (Press release). Premier Sports Management. March 30, 2018. Retrieved March 31, 2018.

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