All the All-Americans

November 7, 2011 By Frank Burlison Leave a Comment

Just in time for today first regular-season games . . . my 2011-12 preseason college All-American team!

Included among the 10 selection are six sophomores, one junior and three seniors.

My preseason choice for Player of the Year is Jared Sullinger of my preseason No. 1 team – Ohio State.

Here we go:

FIRST TEAM

Harrison Barnes (6-8 Sophomore/North Carolina)

Terrence Jones (6-9 Sophomore/Kentucky)

Jared Sullinger (6-9 Sophomore/Ohio State)

Jordan Taylor (6-1 Senior/Wisconsin)

Jeremy Lamb (6-5 Sophomore/Connecticut)

SECOND TEAM

Draymon Green (6-6 Senior/Michigan State)

Tu Holloway (6-0 Senior/Xavier)

John Jenkins (6-3 Junior/Vanderbilt)

Perry Jones III (6-10 Sophomore/Baylor)

Doug McDermott (6-7 Sophomore/Creighton)

Frank Burlison is a well-regarded basketball writer who was inducted into the U.S. Basketball Writers Association Hall of Fame in 2005. His opinions on the potential of high school and college players are widely respected and sought by college coaches and NBA scouts, personnel directors and general managers from coast to coast. Oh, yes – he can offer plenty of thoughts on movies, television and pop music. Yes, he can rank those, too. Hint: He’s a big The Godfather, Larry Sanders, The Wire and The Beatles loyalist.

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