Trey Burke: Consensus All-American
Trey Burke has been named to the AP All-American team, making him 4/4 on NCAA used All-America teams. Truly a great honor.
http://collegebasketball.ap.org/article/mcdermott-repeats-ap-all-americ…
Adding to Raoul's list (via the NCAA Award Winners publication):
MICHIGAN
1924—Harry Kipke
1926—Richard Doyle
1927—Bennie Oosterbaan
1928—Bennie Oosterbaan
1965—Cazzie Russell
1966—Cazzie Russell
1977—Rickey Green
1988—Gary Grant
1993—Chris Webber
2013—Trey Burke
First AP All American since Chris Webber in 1993. Unbelievable year, that isn't done yet. Two more games.
as the title, so that's what I went with. He is a first team selection on all four teams, though, so it is unanimous.
Probably just the semantics police at work - presumably some guy, somewhere could create an All-American list and leave Trey Burke off of it. That person is an ignoramus - and probably has created his list via a Bleacher Report slideshow - but I'm assuming he exists somewhere.
Consider the fact that neither Babe Ruth, Willie Mays, or Jackie Robinson were unanimous choices to be admitted to Cooperstown. Which means there were baseball writers who for what reason God only knows voted against their admission.
I concluded long ago that most sports "journalists" are complete idiots.
First team selections (other than noted for Sporting News selecting McDermott to the second team):
NABC
Burke
Oladipo
McDermott
Porter
Olynyk
AP
Burke
Oladipo
McDermott
Porter
Olynyk
Sporting News
Burke
Oladipo
McDermott (2nd team)
Porter
Olynyk
USBWA
Burke
Oladipo
McDermott
Porter
Olynyk
It seems like the honors sort of roll in at this point, but they are well-deserved indeed and congratulations to Trey Burke on being named to the AP first-team and, as a result, becoming a consensus all-American. Looking at the list of Michigan winners, he joins some select company indeed. What an amazing year it has been for him.
Well Deserved!!!
I'm still always surprised that Glen Rice wasn't first team but instead second team.
The voting for most All-American teams takes place before the NCAA tourney, so the teams are selected on the basis of the regular season alone. While Rice had a great regular season, he took his game to another level during the tournament. So, did he deserve first-team status based on his regular season alone? I have no idea, but I just wanted to point this out as a possible explanation.
Job well done. The memories I have are so special,not to be forgotten.
There's little doubt who's the NPOTY,now!!!!!! Even better...he's from Columbus!!!!
I look at that list and all I can think is: WHERE IS GLEN RICE 1989???
GLEN!!!
Every year, when baseball announces its HOF inductees, I have a buddy who always says, "If you don't vote for someone who receives 95% of the vote, you should lose your ballot for five years since you're clearly wrong. Yes, your opinion is wrong." I bring this up since three people who apparently watch/write about college basketball for a living didn't think Trey Burke was one of the best five players in the country this season. I'm speechless.
I wonder what teams the three amigos report on? I'll take a stab at MSU, IU and OSU.
What do you call the opposite of an April Fools' Joke?
October Genius Fact?
Trey Burke is now a 2-time all-american. He was named a freshman all-american last year according to the official Michigan recordbook.
Trey Burke named to the 2013 John R. Wooden All-American team. Winner of the Player of the Year award will be announced Saturday, 3 p.m.
— Michigan Basketball (@umichbball) April 1, 2013
Something tells me that Burke is gonna lose out on the Wooden Award to Oladipo and the shit is gonna hit the fan around here.
Didn't the end of Wooden voting coincide with Oladipo's game clinching 3 against Temple and Burke's "off" performance against SDSU? I remember ESPN being extra slurpy towards Oladipo on their final Wooden POY List.
How stupid are those voters going to feel if Burke misses out on this?
I had no idea that Bennie Oosterbaan was a multi-sport star. Pretty cool.