UNC guard RJ Davis named first-team AP All-American, Duke's Kyle Filipowski named to second team
Posted March 19, 2024 1:44 p.m. EDT
Updated March 19, 2024 1:48 p.m. EDT
North Carolina guard RJ Davis was named to the Associated Presss men's college basketball All-America team.
Davis (296 points) was a first-team pick on 55 of the 62 ballots submitted from AP Top 25 poll voters.
Purdue's Zach Edey (310 points) was a unanimous AP All-American. The 7-foot-4, 300-pound senior leads the country in scoring at 24.4 points and ranks third in rebounding (11.7).
Tennessee’s Dalton Knecht (298 points) was a first-team pick on 56 ballots.
Houston’s Jamal Shead and Tristen Newton of reigning NCAA champion Connecticut rounded out the first team.
Davis, a 6-0 guard, led was named the AP player of the year for the Atlantic Coast Conference after averaging a league-best 21.4 points. He is UNC’s first first-team AP All-American since 2017.
“RJ has been our closer, and in (close games) it’s a huge luxury to know you can put the ball in our guard’s hands and he’ll either make the right shot or make the right play,” big man Armando Bacot said of Davis during the ACC Tournament.
Second team
Duke's Kyle Filipowski was named to the AP's second team. He is joined by Marquette’s Tyler Kolek, Alabama’s Mark Sears, Dayton's DaRon Holmes II and Kansas' Hunter Dickinson.
Third team
San Diego State’s Jaedon LeDee led the third-team selections, joined by Auburn’s Johni Broome, Pac-12 player of the year Caleb Love of Arizona and Creighton’s Baylor Scheierman.
The final spot went to Illinois’ Terrence Shannon Jr. (54 points), the nation’s No. 3 scorer at 23 points per game.
Honorable mention
Bacot was named to the honorable-mention list. He was a preseason All-American pick who was a third-team All-American last year.
Players earned honorable-mention status if they appeared on multiple voters’ ballots. While 21 players qualified, Reeves (52), McCullar (52) and Providence’s Devin Carter (36) were the only players to get more than 15 points in voting from that group.
