All Americans

[Greek Tragedy]

Maybe this is a question for Pat, but others can chime in...

Without actually looking back at other AAs, is there a set formula in terms of picking 2 guards, 2 fowards and a center or do they simply pick the best 5 players.  I think I remember a conversation like this at least a year a go, but since Point isn't in the Final Four, I've become a little lazy! lol. 

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

OS,


That's how it's been.  I assume that's how they pick'em.  It really is the fair way to make up an All-American Team.

[diehardfan]

So the real official awards are about to be announced, but am curious what all the posters think about who should be AA of all the players they've actually seen...  I'll post mine when I get to an actual computer, but it would be cool if it went something like this:

1) List all the teams you've seen this year (so we know who you had to pick from)
2) List all best players you've seen and think are AA caliber in order of how good you think they are.
3) Since the official teams do it this way divide the lists by front and back court players.

Could be interesting if we get a substantial number to contribute.

[David Collinge]

Okay, I'll bite.

Here's who I have seen (D3 men's varsity only ):
Allegheny
Amherst
Brockport St.
Cabrini
Calvin
Capital
Centre
Denison
Emory & Henry
Earlham
Hiram
John Carroll
Kenyon
Lake Erie
Mt. Union
Muskingum
Oberlin
Ohio Northern
Ohio Wesleyan
Otterbein
Transylvania
UW-La Crosse
Virginia Wesleyan
Wabash
Wash U.
Wittenberg
Wooster

This would be my first team:
G Andrew Olson, Amherst
G James Cooper, Wooster
F Joe Werner, UW-La Crosse
F Tom Port, Wooster
F Brandon Adair, Virginia Wesleyan

second team:
G Sean Wallis, Wash U.
F Dane Borchers, Wittenberg
F Brandon Mimes, John Carroll
F Dan Hodgkinson, Denison
C Tyler Ousley, Otterbein

I couldn't decide between Mimes and Hodgkinson, so I bumped a guard (Brockport's Sherod Harris) and went with a big lineup. Mimes can dribble if he has too. 

[Flying Dutch Fan]

Well the official D3hoops AA teams are out

[Titan Q]

Well the official D3hoops AA teams are out

http://www.d3hoops.com/tow/07/menallam07.htm

[sludge]

Thanks for that link.  The ODAC is well represented!
That first team is would be a handful to play against, for sure.

Does anyone know about the NCAA AA team?

[Pat Coleman]

There is no NCAA All-American team.

[sludge]

Thanks for your work, Pat.

You da people!

[Greek Tragedy]

Illinois Wesleyan
Clarke (IA)
Whitewater
Martin Luther
Stevens Point
Carroll
Lawrence
Marian
Ripon
Oshkosh
River Falls
Platteville
Superior
La Crosse
Grinnell
Stout
Lakeland
St. Norbert
Carthage
Wisconsin Lutheran
Aurora
Eau Claire
Hope
Calvin
Washington U.


1st Team
G-Steve Cramer (pretty unstoppable in 3 appearances)
G-Sean Wallis (Won MVP of Stevens Point sectional)
F-Joe Werner (WIAC player of the year)
F-Zach Freeman (could've been CCIW player of the year  , stud in the two games I saw)
C-Kerry Gibson (Block party)

2nd Team
G-Nate Drury (MWC player of the year)
G-Pete Rortvedt (I consider him a shooting guard, Bryan Beamish is the SF on SP)
F-Jon Krull (tough for his size)
F-Troy Ruths (tore Point apart, pedestrian against Hope, but they doubled/tripled him)
C-Jacob Nonemacher (Block party part 2)

I didn't include D2 Point opponent Northern Michigan.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

OS, were those awards below your votes or the real ones, because wasn't Kent Raymond, not Zach Freeman, the CCIW POY?

[Greek Tragedy]

Oh yeah, he was, I was thinking something else, or just not thinking...

edited 

Or maybe Raymond is the Most Outstanding Player and Freeman the Player of the year...lol.  I honestly have no explanation.

[diehardfan]

Amherst
Elmhurst
Caltech
Carroll
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
Grinnell
Hope
Kalamazoo
Nazareth
Occidental
Pomona-Pitzer
Redlands
St. Thomas
Stevens Point
Va Wes
Wash U
Wheaton
Whittier
UW-Whitewater
Wooster

I saw 10 of the actual AAs this season, and 14 of the actual AA's at some point during their careers. Not too shabby. Will post my personal picks in a bit.

[Pat Coleman]

I would post my list of All-Americans, but that's already been done.

[Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan)]

I would post my list of All-Americans, but that's already been done.

Did you really get to see all of those guys in person this year?  I think that was the start of this course of thought, picking the best five players you saw in person.

We're not trying to hone in on your turf or anything.  I can't imagine any of us have any complaints about the way the official d3hoops.com All-American teams went down.