There's no differentiation between 1st and 2nd team for the WBCA. It's just a 10 member team. It's how Tuck became eligible for the wall. But it would be very unusual for a kid to make AP 1st team and not make the WBCA team.
While it’s rare, it does happen occasionally. Last year, Rhyne Howard made the AP first team but not the WBCA. I believe the last time before that was in 2016 when Rachel Banham made the AP first team but didn’t make the WBCA team.
Hmm. Can we lay money down that 1 of the 2 votes was Antonelli???
Does it matter?
You’re saying the exact same thing I did in a previous post about Collier being the prohibitive number 1 draft pick next month. I’d take Evans before her too. Evans doesn’t shrink in big games.
No. Evans is playing well in regular season games but has a poor performance in the conference tournament
Paige should be POY, but I wouldn’t be totally mad if they gave the award to Evans, I mean going from missing out on ACC FOY to being 6th Man of the year to NPOY would be really persevering, now days most kids ranked pretty high coming out of high school would have transferred if they aren’t named a starter early in there college career.
Not yet. The WBCA is used for the wall.
You are so incorrect. The criteria is FIRST team AA, which the AP team is. In fact, to me, it is more prestigious to be named an AP First Team AA because it only has 5 members, thus, more competitive to get on than the 10 member WBCA AA team!!
It's a nice story and I'm sure she's a great kid, but she hasn't had a NPOY season. 20 points, 4 assists on 43% shooting for the 8th ranked team in the country isn't POY worthy, especially since you have players like Bueckers, Smith and Owusu whove had superior seasons IMO. Not to mention Clark/Hillmon.
No reference to just the AP team.
We'll see. I plan on watching every Texas and Louisville game along with parts of any others. I've seen about 4-5 Texas games from start to finish. I've seen 4-5 LV games, but I always check the box scores of both teams. Right now I'm more impressed with Evans than I am with Collier. I didn't see or pay any attention to their tournament. I was too engrossed and involved with ours. I will take your comment under advisement and watch her more closely in the tournament.
I didn't list everyone, so my "complete" was a misnomer. But the streak of 14 years is correct.
Thanks for this as I then did analysis and was able to deduce that each of the 30 voters gets 5 1st place votes worth 5 points each, 5 2nd team votes worth 3 points each and 5 3rd team votes worth 1 point each.
I think having a big name is a big part of this. Look, not to pick on Boston but I don’t think she had a very good year. She’s been sold interminably as the greatest post in the nation. Some have referred to her as “generational”. She had quite an average year imo; 14 points and 12 rebounds. I think Cunane had a better year and certainly Clark did but of course, they don’t have the big name hoopla that Boston has!
And Courtney Paris.
