All-Americans Listed by 1st, 2nd and 3rd Teams

Last week we posted the prospects for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd team All-American squads as picked by position and based on their true offensive and defensive value to their team above a replacement player, as calculated at www.valueaddbasketball.com. This follow-up post is response to two requests; 1) to list the All-Americans by 1st, 2nd and 3rd team, and 2) to move Chattanooga's All-American Malachi Smith to his true position of point guard even though the fact that he grabs many defensive rebounds makes him "look" like a small forward to the analytics at www.kenpom.com and www.valueaddbasketball.com.

The following are the lists in that order, starting with the most valuable PG, SG, SF, PF and C as the 1st Team All-Americans. As noted many times, freshmen are almost always the "best" players in the country because the best leave for the NBA after one year. However, they actually are rarely the "most valuable" because they still make too many mistakes. Thus you will see none of the superstar freshmen in the 15 players to make our All-American teams, but we listed the corresponding three All-American Freshman teams below.

Pos	1st Team All-Americans	Team	Value	Conf	Ht	Cl
PG	Collin Gillespie #2	Villanova	9.33	BE	6'3"	Sr
SG	Terrell Brown #23	Washington	10.42	P12	6'3"	Sr
SF	Matt Bradley #3	San Diego St.	9.3	MWC	6'4"	Sr
PF	Keegan Murray #15	Iowa	10.86	B10	6'8"	So
C	Oscar Tshiebwe #34	Kentucky	11.14	SEC	6'9"	Jr

Next the 2nd team:

Pos	2nd Team All-Americans	Team	Value	Conf	Ht	Cl
PG	Malachi Smith #13	Chattanooga	9.28	SC	6'4"	So
SG	Nijel Pack #24	Kansas St.	9.39	B12	6'0	So
SF	Ochai Agbaji #30	Kansas	8.6	B12	6'5"	Sr
PF	EJ Liddell #32	Ohio St.	9.93	B10	6'7"	Jr
C	Trayce Jackson-Davis #23	Indiana	8.94	B10	6'9"	So

And finally the 3rd team:

Pos	3rd Team All-Americans	Team	Value	Conf	Ht	Cl
PG	Iverson Molinar #1	Mississippi St.	8.68	SEC	6'3"	Jr
SG	Posh Alexander #0	St. John's	8.8	BE	6'0	So
SF	Lucas Williamson #1	Loyola Chicago	8.28	MVC	6'4"	Sr
PF	Justin Bean #34	Utah St.	9.69	MWC	6'7"	Sr
C	Walker Kessler #13	Auburn	8.66	SEC	7'1"	So

As for the freshmen, the following are the 1st three All-Freshmen teams first posted in this story. We do not insist on position balance with the freshman, but did required that at least one guard make each of the three teams.