Purdue's Zach Edey unanimously tops AP All-America teams - ESPN

For the second straight year, Purdue's Zach Edey is the unanimous headliner for the Associated Press men's college basketball All-America team.

The 7-foot-4, 300-pound senior topped all 62 ballots from AP Top 25 poll voters in results released Tuesday. The reigning AP national player of the year claimed all 58 votes last year.

Tennessee's Dalton Knecht and North Carolina's RJ Davis joined Edey (310 points) in a clear top trio. Knecht (298) was a first-team pick on 56 ballots, Davis (296) was on 55 and both appeared among the top 10 players on every ballot.

Houston's Jamal Shead and Tristen Newton of reigning NCAA champion UConn rounded out the first team.

Edey leads the country in scoring at 24.4 points and ranks third in rebounding (11.7). Named the AP's Big Ten player of the year for a second straight time, Edey has the chance to be the first player to repeat as AP national player of the year since another 7-4 star: Virginia's Ralph Sampson in 1981, 1982 and 1983.

Edey became Purdue's career scoring leader during a loss to Wisconsin in the Big Ten tournament.

«The thing here is, at the end of the day, he won't take credit for himself,» teammate Braden Smith said. «He'll always point to us and say he got here because of us and we were helping him. Awesome accomplishment for him.»

Knecht, a 6-6 transfer from Northern Colorado, is the AP's SEC player of the year. He is only the fourth Volunteer to earn first-team honors, joining Grant Williams (2019), Dale Ellis (1983) and Bernard King (1977) after averaging 21.1 points to help the Volunteers win their first SEC regular-season crown since 2008.

«His journey is one that you kind of read about, like fairy-tale type deals,» Vols associate head coach Justin Gainey said. «Just