1981 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
The Consensus 1981 NCAA Men's Basketball All-American team, as determined by aggregating the results of four major All-American teams.[1] To earn "consensus" status, a player must win honors from a majority of the following teams: the Associated Press, the USBWA, The United Press International and the National Association of Basketball Coaches.
1981 Consensus All-America team
| Player | Position | Class | Team |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Aguirre | F | Junior | DePaul |
| Danny Ainge | G | Senior | Brigham Young |
| Steve Johnson | C | Senior | Oregon State |
| Ralph Sampson | C | Sophomore | Virginia |
| Isiah Thomas | G | Sophomore | Indiana |
| Player | Position | Class | Team |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sam Bowie | C | Sophomore | Kentucky |
| Jeff Lamp | F | Senior | Virginia |
| Rudy Macklin | F | Senior | Louisiana State |
| Kelly Tripucka | F | Senior | Notre Dame |
| Danny Vranes | F | Senior | Utah |
| Al Wood | F | Senior | North Carolina |
Individual All-America teams
| All-America Team | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First team | Second team | Third team | |||||
| Player | School | Player | School | Player | School | ||
| Associated Press [2] | Mark Aguirre | DePaul | Eric Floyd | Georgetown | Sam Bowie | Kentucky | |
| Danny Ainge | Brigham Young | Steve Johnson | Oregon State | Jeff Lamp | Virginia | ||
| Kevin Magee | UC Irvine | Darnell Valentine | Kansas | Lewis Lloyd | Drake | ||
| Ralph Sampson | Virginia | Danny Vranes | Utah | Jay Vincent | Michigan State | ||
| Isiah Thomas | Indiana | Al Wood | North Carolina | Rob Williams | Houston | ||
| USBWA[3] | Mark Aguirre | DePaul | Danny Ainge | Brigham Young | No third team | ||
| Steve Johnson | Oregon State | Sam Bowie | Kentucky | ||||
| Rudy Macklin | Louisiana State | Jeff Lamp | Virginia | ||||
| Ralph Sampson | Virginia | Isiah Thomas | Indiana | ||||
| Al Wood | North Carolina | Danny Vranes | Utah | ||||
| NABC[4] | Mark Aguirre | DePaul | Sam Bowie | Kentucky | Gene Banks | Duke | |
| Danny Ainge | Brigham Young | Rudy Macklin | Louisiana State | Rolando Blackman | Kansas State | ||
| Steve Johnson | Oregon State | Kelly Tripucka | Notre Dame | Albert King | Maryland | ||
| Ralph Sampson | Virginia | Danny Vranes | Utah | Jeff Lamp | Virginia | ||
| Isiah Thomas | Indiana | Al Wood | North Carolina | Lewis Lloyd | Drake | ||
| UPI[5] | Mark Aguirre | DePaul | Rod Foster | UCLA | Ray Blume | Oregon State | |
| Danny Ainge | Brigham Young | Steve Johnson | Oregon State | Sam Bowie | Kentucky | ||
| Ralph Sampson | Virginia | Albert King | Maryland | Clyde Bradshaw | DePaul | ||
| Isiah Thomas | Indiana | Jeff Lamp | Virginia | Lewis Lloyd | Drake | ||
| Kelly Tripucka | Notre Dame | Rudy Macklin | Louisiana State | Danny Vranes | Utah | ||
AP Honorable Mention:[6]
References
- ↑ NCAA Record Book - Award Winners p.137
- ↑ AP All-America Teams
- ↑ USBWA Men's All-Americans
- ↑ All-America - Division I (1980's) Archived March 18, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "2005 NCAA Basketball's Finest" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association. 2005. pp. 200–201. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 21, 2009.
- ↑ "AP All-America List". San Bernardino County Sun. March 10, 1981. p. 28. Retrieved April 5, 2015 – via Newspapers.com.

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