2026 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans

2026 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
Members of the 2026 Consensus All-America first team. From left to right: Boozer, Dybantsa, Lendeborg; (not pictured: Acuff Jr., Smith).
Awarded for	2025–26 NCAA Division I men's basketball season

An All-American team is an honorary sports team composed of the best college players of a specific season for each team position—who in turn are given the honorific "All-America" and typically referred to as "All-American athletes", or simply "All-Americans". Although the honorees generally do not compete together as a unit, the term is used in U.S. team sports to refer to players who are selected by members of the national media. Walter Camp selected the first All-America team in the early days of American football in 1889.^[1] The 2026 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans are honorary lists that include All-American selections from the Associated Press (AP), the United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA), The Sporting News (TSN), and the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) for the 2025–26 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. All selectors choose three teams, while AP and USBWA also list honorable mention selections.

The Consensus 2026 College Basketball All-American team will be determined by aggregating the results of the four major All-American teams as determined by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Since United Press International was replaced by TSN in 1997, the four major selectors have been the aforementioned ones. AP has been a selector since 1948, NABC since 1957 and USBWA since 1960.^[2] To earn "consensus" status, a player must win honors based on a point system computed from the four different all-America teams. The point system consists of three points for first team, two points for second team and one point for third team. No honorable mention or fourth team or lower are used in the computation. The top five totals plus ties are first team and the next five plus ties are second team.^[3]

Typically the All-American team is predicted prior to the start of a given season by many publications, most prominently by the Associated Press, whose voters later select the official AP team after the close of the regular season. On October 20, 2025 the AP named its preseason All-America team. The only unanimous selection, and also the only guard on the team, was Purdue's Braden Smith. The other honorees were Texas Tech forward JT Toppin, Michigan forward Yaxel Lendeborg, BYU forward AJ Dybantsa, and Florida forward Alex Condon.^[4]

2026 Consensus All-America team

PG – Point guard

SG – Shooting guard

PF – Power forward

SF – Small forward

C – Center

Individual All-America teams

Academic All-Americans

College Sports Communicators will announce its 2026 Academic All-America teams for all NCAA divisions and the NAIA on April 14, 2026.^[9] The Division I Academic All-American of the Year is indicated in bold.

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