Karaban pre-season All American

[Palatine]

Karaban Named Preseason First Team All-America - University of Connecticut Athletics

STORRS – UConn men's basketball redshirt junior Alex Karaban (Southborough, Mass.) has been named to the Blue Ribbon Report 2024-25 Preseason All-America First Team,

uconnhuskies.com

 

[husky429]

Well-deserved. Not sure anyone made more team-first winning plays in the country last year.

 

[CL82]

Beat me to it

 

[alexd]

Nice to see they didn't put Cooper Flagg on the First Team before he ever steps on a college court.

 

[HU5KIES]

Love to see it. Anyone know the last preseason 1st team All American we've had?

 

[Umami Zen]

Gonna be a fun ride this year with Alex leading the way and showing the young 3s and 4s how it's done. Liam-Stewie-Isaiah-Ross.

 

[REB1094]

The undisputed leader of a team looking to 3 peat, 2 time champion himself, going into his junior year

Congrats and well deserved Alex! Time to go prove why it was the right decision

 

[Kitaman]

 

[RuffRuff]

Alex is going to be clinical this year - his stage. His smarts, experience and motivation to prove draft analysts he’s a first round pick are gonna make him an animal this year.

Having him and Hassan on the floor ring leading are a big part of the 3-peat potential.

 

[ConnEd]

Love, love, love it! Well deserved for one of the grittiest, smartest, hardest working guys in college basketball. Nice to see the rest of the country recognizing what we've all known the last two years.

 

[Kembafan]

Love to see it. Anyone know the last preseason 1st team All American we've had?

Jeremy Lamb for ‘11-12 season

 

[HooperScooper]

Alongside him on the Blue Ribbon Report First Team is Kansas center Hunter Dickinson, North Carolina guard RJ Davis, Arizona guard Caleb Love and Alabama guard Mark Sears. Creighton center Ryan Kalkbrenner, on the third team, was the only other Big East player recognized.

UConn star forward Alex Karaban named preseason First Team All-American

Alex Karaban, a two-time national champion with the UConn men’s basketball team, was named a preseason First Team All-American by the Blue Ribbon Report.

www.courant.com

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UConn star forward Alex Karaban named preseason First Team All-American

 

[HooperScooper]

Nice to see they didn't put Cooper Flagg on the First Team before he ever steps on a college court.

They knocked him all the way down to 2nd team.

Second Team
Johni Broome (Auburn), Cooper Flagg (Duke), Wade Taylor IV (Texas A&M), Zakai Zeigler (Tennessee), Braden Smith (Purdue)

 

[HuskyHawk]

This is outstanding recognition for Alex. I am very pleasantly surprised.

 

[BlueMAB]

This sucks. One less tool for motivational purposes.

(I joke. Well deserved and congrats to AK)

 

[Palatine]

Love it.

Great for Alex and great for the Huskies.

 

[UConnRock]

The funny part of the list of first teamers is that UConn's "old man" is the youngest on the first team AA list.

Dickenson - 23 (24 in November)
Davis - 22 (23 in October)
Love - 22 (23 in September)
Sears - 22 (23 in February)
Karaban - 21 (22 in November)

Dickenson, Love, Davis and Sears are all extra year COVID holdovers who are happy to collect NIL, as is Broome on the 2nd team. Without the extra COVID year, the 1st team would be Karaban, Flagg, Taylor, Ziegler and Smith. who knows who would still be playing college ball w/o NIL money.

 

[UofCT]

Alongside him on the Blue Ribbon Report First Team is Kansas center Hunter Dickinson, North Carolina guard RJ Davis, Arizona guard Caleb Love and Alabama guard Mark Sears. Creighton center Ryan Kalkbrenner, on the third team, was the only other Big East player recognized.

UConn star forward Alex Karaban named preseason First Team All-American

Alex Karaban, a two-time national champion with the UConn men’s basketball team, was named a preseason First Team All-American by the Blue Ribbon Report.

www.courant.com

Alternate access:
UConn star forward Alex Karaban named preseason First Team All-American

I feel like Caleb Love gets worse every year.

 

[uconnfan68]

I feel like Caleb Love gets worse every year.

Well, he’s 35 now.

 

[alexd]

Well, he’s 35 now.

He's looking to break the old age record of some of those PITT guys from the 00's.

 

[ucp990411]

Wonder where he will be on the Big East preseason teams. Probably honorable mention as voted by the coaches. He has never received the conference respect he should have

 

[auror]

I feel like Caleb Love gets worse every year.

He's pretty good unless it's a big game with 5 minutes left and then he had a 75% chance to shoot you out of the game.

 

[The Yakk]

Braden Smith LOL

 

[Hankster]

What great news to wake up to. Alex going to be a beast.

 

[WhereistheDove?]

Braden Smith LOL

I am so, so curious how his season is going to go without Edey.