AA announcements [merged thread]

[JordyG]

Congrats to Lexie Brown. Also of note, Maryland's 2013 recruiting class has three all Americans on it.

Maybe one day we'll learn the full story as to why she left. If she'd have stayed Frese wouldn't be sitting in the rocking chair right now.

 

[Jimbo]

As long as a team is limited to 3 nominees, it's tough.

Tough, but not completely impossible… Asjha managed to make the AP third team in 2002 with Sue, Swin, and Diana ahead of her. But it's not every day that one team has four future U.S. Olympians on its roster.

 

[Vowelguy]

MD (1st & 3rd).

Kimbrough is listed as a junior. Is that not right?

 

[Jimbo]

Interesting. So Gabby could potentially have 300+ Rebounds, 200+ Assists, 100+ Steals, 50+ Blocks. I would like to know if that has ever been done before.

It's never been done at UConn before. No idea about elsewhere.

 

[meyers7]

Interesting. So Gabby could potentially have 300+ Rebounds, 200+ Assists, 100+ Steals, 50+ Blocks. I would like to know if that has ever been done before.

Not at UCONN.

 

[Bayareahusky]

Diamond DeShields doesn't even make honorable mention. Wow!!

Diamond took too many games off.... and was a turnover machine in a few of their losses..... Although extremely talented and great to watch, that is not recipe for AA you must be consistent and bring it all the time....

 

[Plebe]

I always find it interesting to look at underclassmen ...
3 1st team, 3 2nd team, 3 3rd team, and 11 HM
Third Team
Sydney Wiese, Oregon State, 6-1, senior, Phoenix, 15.7 ppg, 4.9 rpg, 4.6 apg, 45.9 3-pt fg pct, 85.3 ft pct (1, 56)
Lindsay Allen, Notre Dame, 5-8, senior, Mitchellville, Md., 9.2 ppg, 5.2 rpg, 7.6 apg, 50.0 fg pct (4, 54)
Shatori Walker-Kimbrough, Maryland, 5-11, junior, Aliquippa, Pa., 18.6 ppg, 3.7 apg, 53.1 fg pct, 44.7 3-pt fg pct, 81.1 ft pct (0, 52)
Lexie Brown, Duke, 5-9, junior, Suwanee, Ga., 18.3 ppg, 3.7 rpg, 3.6 apg, 92.2 ft pct, 2.8 steals (0, 40)
Victoria Vivians, Mississippi State, 6-1, junior, Carthage, Miss., 16.4 ppg, 4.2 rpg (1, 34)

Apparently the AP's site misreported Shatori Walker-Kimbrough's grade classification. She is a senior, not a junior.

 

[Gus Mahler]

I would like to see Kia's name on 2nd or 3rd team, as well. She is under-rated; lost in the spotlights of her more flashy teammates. And, I believe, she is beginning to ascend to superstar level. She can prove it in the next three games.

Yes, I was really hoping she would make 3rd team. She's a high value-add player.

 

[DefenseBB]

Glad to see Lexie Brown make the team. It may have happened before..... but how many times has a player made the AP All-American team playing for two different schools... ?

Triad! You're back. Glad to see, I was worried about you. I too am happy for Lexi.

 

[triaddukefan]

You know its a tough year to make the Ap team as a guard when Jordin Canada and Alexis Jones only get honorable mention.

 

[Vowelguy]

Apparently the AP's site misreported Shatori Walker-Kimbrough's grade classification. She is a senior, not a junior.

Thank you. I thought she might've been but didn't bother to cross check.

 

[psconn]

Very simple. 1st Team AA. AP/WBCA/USBWA (the 3 listed in the Media Guide) count. WBCA and USBWA give 10-man 1st team. AP only does a 5-man 1st team.

Pretty sure if Williams is making the 2nd Team AP, she'll make one of the 10 team lists.

Thanks Meyers... just what I thought, but expressed with much more precision.

 

[CocoHusky]

Kimbrough is listed as a junior. Is that not right?

Not correct. Shatori Walker-Kimbrough is a senior.

 

[Plebe]

You know its a tough year to make the Ap team as a guard when Jordin Canada and Alexis Jones only get honorable mention.

It is nice to see you surface, Triad. (Or perhaps you already had, and I'd simply missed you. I've been partially out of commission myself.)

I am very partial to Jordin Canada, and her omission was probably the one that I felt most viscerally. But I can't really argue in good faith that any of the 15 selected were less deserving.

 

[Gus Mahler]

As long as a team is limited to 3 nominees, it's tough.

Tough, but not completely impossible… Asjha managed to make the AP third team in 2002 with Sue, Swin, and Diana ahead of her. But it's not every day that one team has four future U.S. Olympians on its roster.

There's probably an agenda . . . .

 

[f1f1ferrari]

I know the WBCA limits teams to 3 nominations - is that also the case for the AP? I don't remember seeing anything firm either way on it.

 

[Phil]

My Google skills have filed me.
I know ESPNW has theirs done. Coaches poll, I believe announces on Saturday. What about AP?

At least they didn't defile you.

 

[RockyMTblue2]

UConn Women’s Basketball: Collier, Samuelson, Named AP First Team All-Americans

Those posts made me sea sick!

 

[UcMiami]

As long as a team is limited to 3 nominees, it's tough.

Limit of three is for the WBCA honors, not the AP.

 

[Vowelguy]

I always find it interesting to look at underclassmen ...
3 1st team, 3 2nd team, 3 3rd team, and 11 HM

Top Seniors

1. Plum, Wash
2. Jones, MD
3. Osahor, Wash
4. Peterson, Syr
5. Wiese, Ore St
6. Allen, ND
7. Kmbrough, MD
8. Akhator KY / Coates SC / Coffey NW / Epps KY / Jankoska MICHST / Jones BAY / McCall STAN / Romero FSU / Karlie STAN / Schulte DEP / Simms ODU / Wendell DRK

Top Juniors

1. Wilson, SC
2. Mitchell, OhSt
3. Turner, ND
4. Gabby, UConn
5. Brown, Duke
6. Vivians, Miss St
7. Canada UCLA / Nurse UCONN / Mercedes TENN / McCarty TEX / Thomas FSU / William MSST

Top Sophs

1. KLS, UConn
2. Napheesa, UConn
3. Anigwe CAL / KalaniB BAY / Durr LOU / Cunningham MO / Martin WV

Of the 19 underclassmen,
UConn has 4.
Miss St has 2.
SC, Tenn, Mo / Oh St / ND, Duke, FSU, Lou / Tex, Bay, WV / UCLA, Cal have 1.

 

[triaddukefan]

Wow... Monique Billings didnt even make honorable mention... cant believe she didnt even get 1 measly vote

 

[HuskyFan1125]

Yes--but me down as a little shocked Jordin Canada didn't make list but not sure who I would take off!?!

Monique Billings should have at least been HM.

 

[Huskie78]

I agree. All star voters usually reward scoring over other skills. While Lou leads Gabby in scoring 20.7-13.8, Gabby leads Lou in rebounding 295-135, Assists 185-113, Steals 94-51 and Blocks 48-8. By the stats, Gabby has a much more well rounded game. If I had to pick just one for my team, I think I would go with Gabby. Glad I don't have to pick.

Also, Gabby currently sitting at 482 points. Like to think she gets to 500 tonight.

 

[Buzzyboy]

Yeah-I'm hoping Gabby made 2nd team.

She did, as you probably know by now. I would have loved seeing her replacing Wilson on the first team. She contributes so much more to this teams success than does Wilson to hers.

 

[triaddukefan]

She did, as you probably know by now. I would have loved seeing her replacing Wilson on the first team. She contributes so much more to this teams success than does Wilson to hers.

 

[Jim]

And when Azura gets to play next year, UCONN will have a starting lineup of 5 All-Americans or Honorable Mentions!

 

[Vowelguy]

She did, as you probably know by now. I would have loved seeing her replacing Wilson on the first team. She contributes so much more to this teams success than does Wilson to hers.

Wilson is the best player, by far, on a team that has a #1 seed. Why you would diminish her accomplishments eludes me.

 

[triaddukefan]

Wilson is the best player, by far, on a team that has a #1 seed. Why you would diminish her accomplishments eludes me.

Without Wilson.... Baby Carolina would have been in Columbia last night waiting for their Men's team to come back home to celebrate their first final four

 

[Buzzyboy]

If I were king, I would have flipped Lou and Gabby partly because I think she earned it, partly because she is a year older. Lou will have one more chance.

There's a number of voters that don't agree with your idea of flipping the two. I think there's a number of people that feel that Gabby may be the single most important factor in this team's great season and I'm not one to argue because she's awesome. What I really don't like is that in order to talk her up, there's some people on the Boneyard that feel the need to denigrate KLS by saying she should be off the list. No question that Gabby deserves more acknowledgement than she gets from the media but to feel the need to take away from the great season that Katie Lou has is crap. A'ja Wilson got all kinds of media attention but there's many people on this board that don't feel that she is a first team All-American. Why not throw her under the bus instead of one of this wonderful teams' best players???? I think a lot of sportscasters typically go for the home run hitters and not necessarily the singles hitter who plays great defense and is a great base stealer who leads the league in runs scored. It's the big power hitter that gets all the headlines and 3 point shooting is comparable to home runs in the women's game. The other day KLS didn't have a particularly good second half on paper but her presence on the court and her ability to draw attention away from other players made it easier for them to be successful. Do you think if you didn't have KLS on this team that Pheesa and Gabby would have the numbers they do? Her being so deadly, particularly at the arc, means that you don't have a collapsing defense, freeing them up to do the things that they do. Things aren't that black and white, you know. People talk about the numbers and since KLS plays appreciably more minutes on the perimeter, she's not going to get rebounding numbers comparable to the others. We're blessed to have some exceptional players but the one annoying thing about this board is the propensity of people to feel the need to take away from one in order to praise another. As parents, would you do that to your kids in the fashion you seem to do it here?

 

[Buzzyboy]

Wilson is the best player, by far, on a team that has a #1 seed. Why you would diminish her accomplishments eludes me.

Are you suggesting because she is the best player on her team, that she deserves first team All-American? Are you assuming that one of the criteria for first team All-American is that you have to play on a Number 1 seeded team? What about the best player on Quinnipiac? What about the best player on the University of Hartford? If A'ja had gone to either of these schools, she would no longer be eligible? It's the 5 best players in the country and I and others don't feel she is! It's true, I'm not a fan but that doesn't change the fact that there are other players that don't get her exposure who are better players. There are players that you and I haven't ever seen that potentially could be better than she is, don't you agree?