NCAA basketball - 2016-17 berthoop.net Men's All-America Team and last review (May 2017)

The 2016-17 NCAA basketball season is now over. The 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament ended with a nice win of Head Coach Roy Williams' North Carolina Tar Heels who defeated the Gonzaga Bulldogs 71-65 in the championship game played at the University of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale, AZ on 2017-04-03.
Just like every year, Bert was asked by the U.S. Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) to select up to 10 All-America players (regardless of position).

Here is therefore the 2016-17 berthoop.net Men's All-America Team (vote sent by Bert Larsimont to USBWA in early March 2017):

Men's All-America 1  Luke Kennard, Duke - guard, 1.96 m, born in 1996, USA
Men's All-America 2  Frank Mason III, Kansas - point guard, 1.80 m, born in 1994, USA
Men's All-America 3  Jayson Tatum, Duke - forward, 2.03 m, born in 1998, USA
Men's All-America 4  Josh Jackson, Kansas - guard, 2.03 m, born in 1997, USA
Men's All-America 5  Ethan Happ, Wisconsin - forward, 2.06 m, born in 1996, USA
Men's All-America 6  Caleb Swanigan, Purdue - forward, 2.06 m, born in 1997, USA
Men's All-America 7  Kennedy Meeks, North Carolina - forward/center, 2.08 m, born in 1995, USA
Men's All-America 8  KeVaughn Allen, Florida - guard, 1.88 m, born in 1995, USA
Men's All-America 9  Lonzo Ball, UCLA - guard, 1.98 m, born in 1997, USA
Men's All-America 10  J.J. Frazier, Georgia - point guard, 1.78 m, born in 1995, USA


  

The USBWA All-America teams were voted on by members of the USBWA, which is comprised of over 900 sportswriters and sports journalists who cover college basketball for newspapers, magazines and websites (incl. Bert).

 2016-17 USBWA Men's All-America Teams
First Team:
Lonzo Ball, UCLA - guard, 1.98 m, born in 1997, USA
Nigel Williams-Goss, Gonzaga - guard, 1.90 m, born in 1994, USA
Josh Hart, Villanova - guard, 1.96 m, born in 1995, USA
Frank Mason III, Kansas - point guard, 1.80 m, born in 1994, USA
Caleb Swanigan, Purdue - forward, 2.06 m, born in 1997, USA
Second Team:
Dillon Brooks, Oregon - forward, 1.98 m, born in 1996, Canada
Justin Jackson, North Carolina - forward, 2.03 m, born in 1995, USA
Luke Kennard, Duke - guard, 1.96 m, born in 1996, USA
Malik Monk, Kentucky - guard, 1.93 m, born in 1998, USA
Johnathan Motley, Baylor - forward, 2.06 m, born in 1995, USA

Take notice that senior guard Frank Mason III from Kansas has been named the winner of the Oscar Robertson Trophy as the national player of the year in voting by the USBWA.
Read full USBWA press releases about the Men's All-America Team and the Oscar Robertson Trophy:
and

Sources: USBWA and google.com

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