1981 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans

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1981 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
Awarded for 1980–81 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
  1980  · All-Americans ·  1982  

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.

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1981 Consensus All-America team

Consensus First Team
PlayerPositionClassTeam
Mark Aguirre FJunior DePaul
Danny Ainge GSenior Brigham Young
Steve Johnson CSenior Oregon State
Ralph Sampson CSophomore Virginia
Isiah Thomas GSophomore Indiana


Consensus Second Team
PlayerPositionClassTeam
Sam Bowie CSophomore Kentucky
Jeff Lamp FSeniorVirginia
Rudy Macklin FSenior Louisiana State
Kelly Tripucka FSenior Notre Dame
Danny Vranes FSenior Utah
Al Wood FSenior North Carolina

Individual All-America teams

All-America Team
First teamSecond teamThird team
PlayerSchoolPlayerSchoolPlayerSchool
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 AguirreDePaulDanny AingeBrigham YoungNo third team
Steve JohnsonOregon StateSam BowieKentucky
Rudy Macklin Louisiana State Jeff LampVirginia
Ralph SampsonVirginiaIsiah ThomasIndiana
Al WoodNorth CarolinaDanny VranesUtah
NABC [4] Mark AguirreDePaulSam BowieKentucky Gene Banks Duke
Danny AingeBrigham YoungRudy MacklinLouisiana State Rolando Blackman Kansas State
Steve JohnsonOregon State Kelly Tripucka Notre Dame Albert King Maryland
Ralph SampsonVirginiaDanny VranesUtahJeff LampVirginia
Isiah ThomasIndianaAl WoodNorth CarolinaLewis LloydDrake
UPI [5] Mark AguirreDePaul Rod Foster UCLA Ray Blume Oregon State
Danny AingeBrigham YoungSteve JohnsonOregon StateSam BowieKentucky
Ralph SampsonVirginiaAlbert KingMaryland Clyde Bradshaw DePaul
Isiah ThomasIndianaJeff LampVirginiaLewis LloydDrake
Kelly TripuckaNotre DameRudy MacklinLouisiana StateDanny VranesUtah

AP Honorable Mention: [6]

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References

  1. NCAA Record Book - Award Winners p.137
  2. AP All-America Teams
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  4. All-America - Division I (1980's) Archived March 18, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  5. "2005 NCAA Basketball's Finest" (PDF). National Collegiate Athletic Association. 2005. pp. 200–201. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 21, 2009.
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