Edey, Jackson-Davis, Wilson headline AP All-America Team
FILE - Purdue center Zach Edey (15) gets a dunk over Davidson forward David Skogman, left, and forward Sean Logan in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in Indianapolis, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2022. Purdues Zach Edey and Indianas Trayce Jackson-Davis have given the Big Ten Conference a third straight year with multiple first-team Associated Press All-America picks. Edey was the lone unanimous pick in results released Tuesday, March 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)
Purdues Zach Edey and Indianas Trayce Jackson-Davis have given the Big Ten Conference a third straight year with multiple first-team Associated Press All-America picks, while Kansas had a second straight first-teamer in Jalen Wilson.
The 7-foot-4, 305-pound Edeyappeared on all 58 ballots as a first-team selection fromAP Top 25voters as the lone unanimous pick in results released Tuesday.
The selections of the Boilermakers Edey and the Hoosiers Jackson-Daviscame a year after the Big Ten had three first-team picks. And it gave the league seven through the last three seasons; no other league has more than three.
The Big Ten has had at least one first-teamer for five straight years and eight of the last nine.
Houstons Marcus Sasser and Alabamas Brandon Miller joined Edey and Wilson on the first team in representing each of the NCAA Tournaments No. 1 seeds.
Edey has commanded the national spotlight all year.The Big Ten player of the yearranks sixth nationally in scoring (22.3), second in rebounding (12.8) and first in double-doubles (26).
Everybody goes: You go to him so much, Purdue coach Matt Painter saidafter the Big Ten Tournament title winagainst Penn State. If they call it by the rules, theyre fouling him on every possession. So why shouldnt we get it to him and just try to get in that bonus early and steal points?
Obviously he can make tough post-ups and he can get at the rim, and he gets offensive rebounds when you take him away.
Jackson-Davis, a 6-9 fourth-year forward, is Indianas first first-team selectionsince Victor Oladipo in 2013. Hes averaging 20.8 points and 10.9 rebounds while taking a leap with his passing (4.1 assists, up from 1.9 last year).
I probably have pushed him harder than any player on this team and I know theres been days that hes walked out of here thinking that, Hey, is this guy really in my corner, based on how hes pushing me? coach Mike Woodson said. But at the end of the day, hes gotten better as a player.
We have benefited from it, you know, with our ballclub, in terms of how we played as a team. And hes been the driving force behind it.
Wilson, a 6-8 fourth-year forward, was a returning complementary starter from last years NCAA title run. He thrived in an expanded role, becomingBig 12 player of the yearand nearly doubling his scoring average (20.1, up from 11.1) to go with 8.4 rebounds.
It marked the fourth time in seven seasons that the Jayhawks had a first-team pick going back to national player of the year Frank Mason III in 2017.
Hes an elite competitor, Iowa State coach T.J. Otzelberger saidafter a Big 12 Tournament loss to the Jayhawks. He gets to the glass. He makes cuts. He makes it hard. He does so many things.
Sasser, a 6-2 senior, was a starter on the Cougars Final Four team two years ago andis the star of another title threat this year. Hes averaging 17.1 points as the programs first first-team selection since Hakeem Olajuwon in 1984 during the Phi Slama Jama era.
Miller, a 6-9 freshman, was a McDonalds All-American who became an immediate star on the way to being namedthe Southeastern Conference player of the year. Hes averaging 19.6 points and 8.3 rebounds for the tournaments No. 1 overall seed.
Miller has been involved in a murder case that has overshadowed the Crimson Tides successful run, leadingto capital murder chargesagainst former Alabama player Darius Miles and another man for the January shooting death of 23-year-old Jamea Harris.A police investigator testified last monththat Miles texted Miller to bring him his gun that night, though authorities havent charged Miller with any crime.
Pac-12 player of the year Jaime Jaquez Jr. of UCLAwas the leading vote-getter on the second team that included Kentuckys Oscar Tshiebwe, last seasonsAP national player of the year.
Gonzagas Drew Timme was a second-team selection for the third straight year, while Arizonas Azuolas Tubelis and Penn States Jalen Pickett rounded out the second quintet.
Kansas States surge led to the Wildcats earning third-team selections in Markquis Nowell and Keyontae Johnson, their first AP All-Americans since Jacob Pullen in 2011.
Big East player of the year Tyler Kolekof Marquette, Iowas Kris Murray and North Carolinas Armando Bacot rounded out the third team.
National scoring leader Antoine Davis of Detroit Mercy, who averaged 28.2 pointsand fell three points shy of tyingPistol Pete Maravichs all-time career scoring record, was the leading vote-getter among players who didnt make the three All-America teams.
Players earned honorable-mention status if they appeared on multiple voters ballots. This years list includes Memphis Kendric Davis, Xaviers Souley Boum and Miamis Isaiah Wong.
AP Sports Writer Mike Marot in Indianapolis contributed to this report.
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