AP Awards

[Geew1992]

Clark, 2 freshmen top AP women's All-Americans

Caitlin Clark, Cameron Brink, Paige Bueckers and two freshmen in JuJu Watkins and Hannah Hidalgo constitute the women's AP All-America first team.

www.espn.com

 

[Henry]

How could Aaliyah not make one of the 3 teams???

 

[Geew1992]

How could Aaliyah not make one of the 3 teams???

I asked the same questions.

 

[Rb335]

Interesting you only need one vote to be honorable mention.

Congrats to Paige, first team AP All American returning from ACL injury. That’s really impressive.

Aaliyah one of the two highest vote getters in the honorable mention category, per the AP article.

 

[hoopsfan22]

She got honorable mention. There are a lot of good players out there, and they can only have 15.

 

[triaddukefan]

How could Aaliyah not make one of the 3 teams???

Who would you remove from the team?

 

[Topdawg]

There is often a recency bias as voters start focusing on players at the end of the season. Aaliyah missed much of the BE tournament and may have lost a few votes as a result.

She would have certainly made my list!

 

[darrell]

 

[Mediocrites]

In my opinion, Aaliyah had Boston-like numbers this year and deserved better than HM.

 

[MilfordHusky]

Who would you remove from the team?

Reese, Holmes, Amoore, Pili, Booker, Sheldon, Fair, and Beers.

 

[omshanti]

Who would you remove from the team?

I would flip a few players up and a few down. I see Edwards at least a 3rd team AA. I would move Cordoso down, Kitley down.

 

[topogigio]

Agree with all above regarding Edwards, A real slap in the face. The only consolation is Reese not getting 1st team, which takes the sting somewhat out of the Edwards slap!

 

[Pharos]

Which 3rd team-er was more valuable to winning outcomes for their team?

 

[Centerstream]

Nika made Honorable Mention too.

 

[Dillon77]

Here's the full list of Honorable Mention All Americans:

Honorable Mention:

Lauren Betts, UCLA; Audi Crooks, Iowa State; Aaliyah Edwards, UConn; Yvonne Ejim Gonzaga; Lauren Gustin, BYU; McKenna Hofschild, Colorado State; Abbey Hsu, Columbia; Kiki Iriafen, Stanford; Rickea Jackson, Tennessee; Ta’Niya Latson, Florida State; Ayoka Lee, Kansas State; Cotie McMahon, Ohio State; Aneesah Morrow, LSU; Nika Muhl, UConn; Lucy Olsen, Villanova; Charisma Osborne, UCLA; Te-Hina Paopao, South Carolina; JJ Quinerly, West Virginia; Saniya Rivers, North Carolina State; Kiki Rice, UCLA; Jaylyn Sherrod, Colorado; Skylar Vann, Oklahoma.

 

[#12in21]

Aaliyah and Nika will just have to join Paige on the all NCAA tournament team when they win # 12!

 

[Hayven]

 

[Plebe]

The cold reality is that these AA awards are greatly influenced by team success, and rightly or wrongly voters are reluctant to spare a second vote for a borderline top 10 team.

Since I have the choice how to spend my energy, I'll choose to focus it on celebrating Paige's 1st team award. She had a remarkable season, and after all she's been through the last two years, this is quite the triumphant return.

Aaliyah has also had a magnificent season, and I'm sure she's smart and mature enough to know that her accomplishments on the court are not the slightest bit diminished by whether some outside entity puts her name on a list.

 

[meyers7]

The cold reality is that these AA awards are greatly influenced by team success, and rightly or wrongly voters are reluctant to spare a second vote for a borderline top 10 team.

S. Carolina with 1 2nd Team and 1 HM.
Texas with 1 2nd Team
Iowa with 1 1st Team
USC with 1 1st Team

All #1 Seeds.

vs
UCONN with 1 1st Team and 2 HM. #3 Seed.

Not so sure your comment hold true.

 

[Plebe]

S. Carolina with 1 2nd Team and 1 HM.
Texas with 1 2nd Team
Iowa with 1 1st Team
USC with 1 1st Team

All #1 Seeds.

vs
UCONN with 1 1st Team and 2 HM. #3 Seed.

Not so sure your comment hold true.

How often has a team outside the top 8 placed two players on AP 1st through 3rd teams (not counting HM)? Has that ever happened?

 

[DallasDomer]

Who would you remove from the team?

Watkins from first team. She shot only 40% 0.75 assist/turnover ratio and I can't forget games when she shot 18% and kept shooting.

 

[meyers7]

How often has a team outside the top 8 placed two players on AP 1st through 3rd teams (not counting HM)? Has that ever happened?

Well Virginia Tech this year, outside the top 10 (12).

That would take a while to look up for other years.

 

[Cuango]

What a travesty! Aaliyah should have been second team! She should be there over both Cardoso and Reese! For Pete’s sake! Reese can’t hit a jump shot to save her life And Cardoso only averaged 14 ppg!

 

[BRS24]

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[Zarathustra]

How could Aaliyah not make one of the 3 teams???

Hard to Believe! It seems like they limited one to a school. But... the EXCEPTION: Virginia Tech: Elizabeth Kitley on the second team
and Georgia Amoore on the third. IMO Paige and Aaliyah were as productive as the V. T. Duet ( Virginia Tech is
a Number four seed in the NCAAs ). But then the committee would have to drop someone.... and, of course,
other teams might complain how they (also) did not merit a duo! OUCH!