List of Men's Basketball Academic All-America Team Members of the Year
Awarded for | the yearly outstanding men's college basketball Academic All-America team member |
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Country | United States; Canada |
Presented by | College Sports Communicators |
History | |
Most recent | Max Abmas, Texas Erik Timko, Jefferson Cael Schmitt, Coe Jonathan Brown, Cumberlands |
Next award announcement | April 2025 |
Website | academicallamerica.com |
The following is a list of the annual selection by College Sports Communicators (CSC), known before the 2022–23 season as the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), and its Academic All-America sponsor of the individual athlete selected as the most outstanding of the annual Men's Basketball Academic All-America selections. Between 1996 and 2011, one winner each was chosen from both the college and University Divisions for all twelve Academic All-America teams including football. The Academic All-America program recognizes combined athletic and academic excellence of the nation's top student-athletes. The University Division team included eligible participants from National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I member schools, while the College Division team included scholar-athletes from all of the following: NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III, National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), Canadian universities and colleges and two-year schools.
Beginning in 2012, CSC revamped its award structure. The University Division was renamed "Division I". Since then, NCAA Divisions II and III have had their own separate All-Americans. The College Division consisted only of non-NCAA institutions through the 2017–18 school year, after which it was effectively replaced by an NAIA division restricted to members of that governing body.[1][a]
Currently, each team selects Academic All-District honorees in eight geographic districts across the United States and Canada.[2] The districts are as follows: – District 1 (CT, MA, ME, NH, NY, RI, VT), District 2 (DC, DE, KY, MD, NJ, PA, WV), District 3 (NC, TN, VA), District 4 (AL, FL, GA, PR, SC), District 5 (IL, IN, MI, OH), District 6 (AR, IA, LA, MN, MO, MS, MT, ND, SD, WI, WY), – District 7 (CO, ID, KS, NE, NM, NV, OK, TX), District 8 (AK, AZ, CA, HI, OR, UT, WA, Canada).[3] First team All-District honorees make the All-America team ballots. Currently, all twelve Academic All-American teams (men's and women's basketball, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's track & field, men's baseball, women's softball, men's American football, women's volleyball and men's and women's at-large teams) have four Academic All-Americans of the Year, one from each division. In each of the four divisions (NAIA, Division I, Division II, and Division III), one of the twelve sport-by-sport Academic All-Americans of the Year is selected as the Academic All-America Team Member of the Year for that division.[4] The most recent men's basketball players to receive the all-sports honor are Cooper Cook of Nebraska Wesleyan University and Kyle Steigenga of Cornerstone University, respectively named in Division III and the former College Division in 2018.[5][6]
History[edit]
As of January 31, 2024[update], Illinois Wesleyan University has had the most men's basketball Academic All-America honorees,[7] and three of them have been recognized with this award a total of four times.[8]
Several of the Men's Basketball Academic All-America of the Year winners have gone on to win the overall Academic All-America of the Year. Michael Smith was the first University Division overalll winner in 1988. Then, Alec Kessler (1990), Todd Fuller (1996) and Emeka Okafor (2004) also won the University Division overall Academic All-America. Before the College Division was split, Korey Coon (2000) and Troy Ruths (2008) won the overall award. Since the split there have been no Division I or Division II overall winners. However, Colton Hunt (2013), John Coleman (2015) and Cooper Cook (2018) have one the Division III award. Kyle Steigenga (2018) has won the College Division award.[9]
Several have been repeat winners of this award.[8]
Tables of winners[edit]
Names in bold indicate winners of the all-sports Academic All-America award. All winners are Americans unless indicated otherwise.
Two-division era (1988–2011)[edit]
Four-division era (2012–present)[edit]
See also[edit]
Footnotes[edit]
- ^ The College Division still exists within the CoSIDA Academic All-America program, but awards are only presented in CoSIDA's "at-large" category, encompassing sports in which the organization does not select a dedicated Academic All-America team. See CoSIDA's official calendar for announcement of its 2019–20 Academic All-America honorees.
- ^ College Division, 2012–2018; NAIA, 2019–present
- ^ The five undergraduate Claremont Colleges operate two athletic programs. Claremont McKenna teams with Harvey Mudd College and Scripps College to field sports teams as Claremont–Mudd–Scripps.
References[edit]
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- ^ "Nebraska Wesleyan's Cooper Cook Selected Google Cloud Division III Academic All-America® Team Member of the Year" (PDF) (Press release). College Sports Information Directors of America. July 18, 2018. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
- ^ "Men's Basketball Standout Kyle Steigenga of Cornerstone Named as Google Cloud College Division Academic All-America® of the Year" (PDF) (Press release). College Sports Information Directors of America. July 16, 2018. Retrieved January 27, 2019.
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- ^ a b "West Virginia's Herber & Illinois Wesleyan's Amelianovich Head 2006 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® Men's Basketball Team" (PDF). College Sports Information Directors of America. March 1, 2006. Retrieved March 23, 2011.
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- ^ a b "Drake's Emmenecker & Washington's (Mo.) Ruths Head 2008 ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America® Men's Basketball Team" (PDF). College Sports Information Directors of America. February 26, 2008. Retrieved March 23, 2011.
- ^ a b "Brett Winkelman of North Dakota State, MIT's Jimmy Bartolotta Lead ESPN The Magazine's Academic All America® Men's Basketball Teams" (PDF). College Sports Information Directors of America. February 25, 2009. Retrieved March 23, 2011.
- ^ a b "2009-2010 ESPN The Magazine Sport-By-Sport Academic All-Americans Of The Year" (PDF). College Sports Information Directors of America. Retrieved March 23, 2011.
- ^ a b "Matt Howard of Butler, Austin Meier of MSOE lead Capital One Academic All-America® Men's Basketball Teams". College Sports Information Directors of America. February 22, 2011. Archived from the original on March 4, 2011. Retrieved March 23, 2011.
- ^ "Tyler Zeller of UNC, Elena Delle Donne headline Capital One Academic All-America® Division I Basketball Teams". College Sports Information Directors of America. February 23, 2012. Archived from the original on July 13, 2012. Retrieved February 23, 2012.
- ^ "Nick Trull of Anderson, Michelle McDonald of Winona State lead Capital One Academic All-America® Division II Basketball Team" (Press release). College Sports Information Directors of America. February 22, 2012. Retrieved March 30, 2012.
- ^ "Aris Wurtz of Ripon, Carol Cayo of Milwaukee School of Engineering lead Capital One Academic All-America® Division III Basketball Teams" (Press release). College Sports Information Directors of America. February 21, 2012. Retrieved March 30, 2012.
- ^ "Capital One Academic All-America® College Division Basketball Teams announced". cosida.com. February 20, 2012. Archived from the original on July 13, 2012. Retrieved March 27, 2012.
- ^ "Delaware's Elena Delle Donne, Ohio State's Aaron Craft top Capital One Academic All-America® Division I Basketball Teams". College Sports Information Directors of America. February 21, 2013. Archived from the original on April 8, 2013. Retrieved February 21, 2013.
- ^ "Kari Daugherty of Ashland, Marcus Ruh of Saint Leo headline Capital One Academic All-America® Division II Basketball Teams" (Press release). College Sports Information Directors of America. February 20, 2013. Retrieved February 21, 2013.
- ^ "Colton Hunt of Randolph College and Carissa Verkaik of Calvin College top Capital One Academic All-America® Division III Basketball Teams" (Press release). College Sports Information Directors of America. February 19, 2013. Retrieved February 21, 2013.
- ^ "Brad Karp of Saint Xavier and Lee University's Hollie German lead Capital One Academic All-America® College Division Basketball Teams" (Press release). College Sports Information Directors of America. February 18, 2013. Retrieved February 21, 2013.
- ^ "Craft Named Academic All-American for Third Time". Ohio State University. February 20, 2014. Retrieved February 20, 2014.
- ^ "Capital One Academic All-America® Division I Basketball Teams Announced: Stanford's Chiney Ogwumike and Ohio State Aaron Craft lead the team and are the Capital One Academic All-Americas of the Year for Division I women's and men's basketball, respectively". College Sports Information Directors of America. February 20, 2014. Retrieved February 21, 2014.
- ^ "Meet the Capital One Academic All-America® Division II Basketball Teams: Lauren Battista of No. 1-ranked Bentley and Missouri S&T's Bryce Foster lead the scholar-athlete teams" (Press release). College Sports Information Directors of America. February 19, 2014. Retrieved February 21, 2014.
- ^ "Capital One Academic All-America® D3 Basketball Teams Announced: Senior Richie Bonney (Hobart) and Stephanie Kuzmanic (Carthage) headline the 2013-14 Division III basketball teams" (Press release). College Sports Information Directors of America. February 18, 2014. Retrieved February 21, 2014.
- ^ "Capital One Academic All-America® College Division Basketball Teams Announced: Brad Karp (Saint Xavier), Samantha Kleinsasser (Northwestern- Iowa) claim Capital One Academic All-America® of the Year basketball honors for the college division. Karp has now earned top CD men's basketball honors for the second consecutive year" (Press release). College Sports Information Directors of America. February 17, 2014. Retrieved February 21, 2014.
- ^ "Ashley Luke (Western Illinois) and Yale's Matt Townsend lead Capital One Academic All-America Div. 1 Basketball Teams". College Sports Information Directors of America. February 26, 2015. Retrieved February 27, 2015.
- ^ "Capital One Academic All-America® DII Basketball Teams Announced; Suzanna Ohlen (Seattle Pacific) and Trey Casey (Christian Brothers) Headline Honorees". College Sports Information Directors of America. February 25, 2015. Retrieved February 27, 2015.
- ^ "Clarkson's John Coleman and Whitman's Heather Johns Headline Capital One Academic All-America® Division III Basketball Teams". College Sports Information Directors of America. February 24, 2015. Retrieved February 27, 2015.
- ^ "Morgan Stuut (Saint Xavier) & Matt Schauss (Bethel) Lead Capital One Academic All-America® College Division Basketball Teams". College Sports Information Directors of America. February 23, 2015. Retrieved February 27, 2015.
- ^ "Academic All-America® Basketball Teams - Division I" (PDF). College Sports Information Directors of America. March 3, 2016. Retrieved March 6, 2016.
- ^ "Academic All-America® Division III Basketball Teams Selected". College Sports Information Directors of America. March 6, 2016. Retrieved March 2, 2016.
- ^ "Academic All-America® Division III Basketball Teams Selected". College Sports Information Directors of America. March 6, 2016. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
- ^ "Academic All-America® Basketball Teams - College Division". College Sports Information Directors of America. March 6, 2016. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
- ^ "Ally Disterhoft of Iowa, Canyon Barry of Florida Highlight CoSIDA Academic All-America® Division I Basketball Teams" (Press release). College Sports Information Directors of America. March 2, 2017. Retrieved March 2, 2017.
- ^ "Cassidy Mihalko of California Baptist and Adam Klie of UC San Diego Headline CoSIDA Academic All-America® Division II Basketball Teams" (Press release). College Sports Information Directors of America. March 1, 2017. Retrieved March 2, 2017.
- ^ "DeShawn Lowman of Neumann and Lisa Murphy of Carnegie Mellon Highlight CoSIDA Academic All-America® Division III Basketball Teams" (Press release). College Sports Information Directors of America. February 28, 2017. Retrieved March 2, 2017.
- ^ "Chandler Folkerts of Concordia (Neb.) and Cassidy Deno of Purdue Northwest Leads CoSIDA Academic All-America® College Division Basketball Teams" (Press release). College Sports Information Directors of America. February 27, 2017. Retrieved March 2, 2017.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "2017-18 Academic All-America® NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Team Announced" (Press release). College Sports Information Directors of America. March 13, 2018. Retrieved March 13, 2018.
- ^ "2017-18 Academic All-America® NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Team Announced" (Press release). College Sports Information Directors of America. March 14, 2018. Retrieved March 14, 2018.
- ^ "2017-18 Academic All-America® College Division Men's Basketball Team Announced" (Press release). College Sports Information Directors of America. March 15, 2018. Retrieved March 15, 2018.
- ^ "2018-19 Google Cloud Academic All-America® NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Team Announced" (Press release). College Sports Information Directors of America. March 11, 2019. Retrieved March 11, 2019.
- ^ "2018-19 Google Cloud Academic All-America® NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Team Announced" (Press release). College Sports Information Directors of America. March 12, 2019. Retrieved March 12, 2019.
- ^ "2018-19 Google Cloud Academic All-America® NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Team Announced" (Press release). College Sports Information Directors of America. March 13, 2019. Retrieved March 13, 2019.
- ^ "2018-19 Google Cloud Academic All-America® NAIA Men's Basketball Team Announced" (Press release). College Sports Information Directors of America. March 13, 2019. Retrieved March 13, 2019.
- ^ "2019-20 Academic All-America® NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Team Announced" (Press release). College Sports Information Directors of America. March 9, 2020. Retrieved March 9, 2020.
- ^ "2019-20 Academic All-America® NCAA Division II Men's Basketball Teams Announced" (Press release). College Sports Information Directors of America. March 10, 2020. Retrieved March 10, 2020.
- ^ "2019-20 Academic All-America® NCAA Division III Men's Basketball Team Announced" (Press release). College Sports Information Directors of America. March 11, 2020. Retrieved March 11, 2020.
- ^ "2019-20 CoSIDA Academic All-America® NAIA Men's Basketball Team Announced" (Press release). College Sports Information Directors of America. March 12, 2020. Retrieved March 12, 2020.
- ^ "Corey Kispert of Gonzaga, Aliyah Boston of South Carolina Lead Academic All-America® NCAA Division I Men's & Women's Basketball Teams" (PDF) (Press release). College Sports Information Directors of America. May 28, 2021. Retrieved May 30, 2021.
- ^ "Sierra Kotchman of Fairmont State, Dalton Bolon of West Liberty Spotlight CoSIDA Academic All-America® Division II Basketball Teams" (PDF) (Press release). College Sports Information Directors of America. May 27, 2021. Retrieved May 30, 2021.
- ^ "Gabriel Leifer of Yeshiva, Jenna Taylor of Simpson Headline Academic All-America® Division III Men's & Women's Basketball Teams" (PDF) (Press release). College Sports Information Directors of America. May 26, 2021. Retrieved May 30, 2021.
- ^ "Kyle Mangas of Indiana Wesleyam, Kylah Comley of Sterling Spotlight CoSIDA Academic All-America® NAIA Basketball Teams" (PDF) (Press release). College Sports Information Directors of America. May 25, 2021. Retrieved May 30, 2021.
- ^ a b c d "2021-22 Academic All-America® Men's Basketball Teams Announced For All NCAA and NAIA Divisions" (Press release). College Sports Information Directors of America. March 15, 2022. Retrieved March 15, 2022.
- ^ a b c d "2022-23 Academic All-America® Men's Basketball Teams Announced For All NCAA and NAIA Divisions" (Press release). College Sports Communicators. March 14, 2023. Retrieved March 14, 2023.
- ^ "Josh Angle Earns Academic All-America Team Member of the Year Award" (Press release). Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Athletics. March 14, 2023. Retrieved March 15, 2023.
Academically, Angle is a Robert Day Scholar in the Claremont McKenna economics department, and will graduate this spring with both a bachelor's degree in economics and a master's degree in finance.
- ^ a b c d "2023-24 Academic All-America® Men's Basketball Teams announced for all NCAA and NAIA divisions". College Sports Communicators. April 17, 2024. Retrieved April 19, 2024.