A total of 53 Wildcats have earned All-America honors. Of those players, 16 were named concensus first team
All-America 21 times, the most of any Division I program. The following is a chronological listing of all 53 UK basketball players who have been named to various All-America teams, beginning with forward Basil Hayden in 1921. The NCAA currently utilizes The Sporting News, The Associated Press, the NABC and the U.S. Basketball Writers Association.
| Player | Year | Selection Board or Panel | ||||||||||||
| Basil | Hayden | 1921 | HF | |||||||||||
| Burgess | Carey | 1925 | HF | |||||||||||
| Carey | Spicer | 1929 | HF | |||||||||||
| 1931 | HF | |||||||||||||
| Paul | McBrayer | 1930 | HF | |||||||||||
| Lewis | McGuiness | 1930 | CH-3rd | |||||||||||
| Forest | Sale | 1932• | HF, Cv, CH-1st | |||||||||||
| 1933• | HF, Cv, CH-1st | |||||||||||||
| Ellis | Johnson | 1933 | HF | |||||||||||
| John | DeMoisey | 1934 | HF | |||||||||||
| William | Davis | 1934 | Cv-3rd | |||||||||||
| LeRoy | Edwards | 1935• | HF, Cv-2nd | |||||||||||
| Bernard | Opper | 1939•• | Cv-1st | |||||||||||
| Lee | Huber | 1941 | HF | |||||||||||
| Milt | Tico | 1943 | Pic-3rd | |||||||||||
| Bob | Brannum | 1944• | HF, SN-1st, Cv-2nd, Pic-2nd | |||||||||||
| Wilber | Schu | 1945 | DD-2nd | |||||||||||
| Jack | Parkinson | 1946•• | HF, Cv-1st, Tru-3rd | |||||||||||
| Jack | Tingle | 1946 | Cv-3rd | |||||||||||
| 1947 | Tru-2nd, NABC-2nd | |||||||||||||
| Ralph | Beard | 1947• | HF-1st, Cv-1st, Tru-1st, NABC-1st | |||||||||||
| 1948• | AP-1st, HF-1st, Cv-1st, Tru-1st, NABC-1st | |||||||||||||
| 1949• | AP-1st, UPI-1st, Lk-2nd, Col-1st, Cv-2nd, HF-1st, SN-3rd, NABC-1st | |||||||||||||
| Alex | Groza | 1947• | HF-2nd, Cv-2nd, Tru-1st, NABC-1st | |||||||||||
| 1948•• | AP-2nd, HF-2nd, Cv-1st, Tru-2nd, NABC-2nd | |||||||||||||
| 1949• | AP-1st, UPI-1st, Lk-1st, Cv-1st, HF-1st, SN-1st | |||||||||||||
| Wah Wah | Jones | 1947 | HF-2nd, Cv-2nd | |||||||||||
| 1948 | Cv-3rd, Tru-3rd | |||||||||||||
| 1949•• | AP-2nd, UPI-1st, Cv-1st, SN-2nd | |||||||||||||
| Jim | Line | 1950 | UPI-3rd | |||||||||||
| Bill | Spivey | 1950 | AP-3rd, UPI-3rd, HF, 3rd | |||||||||||
| 1951• | AP-1st, UPI-1st, Lk-1st, INS, Col-1st, Cv-1st, HF-1st, SN-1st | |||||||||||||
| Frank | Ramsey | 1951 | AP-3rd, UPI-3rd, Cv-3rd, SN-2nd | |||||||||||
| 1952 | AP-2nd, UPI-2nd, Cv-1st, HF-2nd, Ath-1st | |||||||||||||
| 1954•• | AP-2nd, UPI-2nd, Lk-1st, INS-2nd, Cv-1st, HF-2nd, Tm-2nd, NABC-2nd | |||||||||||||
| Cliff | Hagan | 1952• | AP-1st, UPI-1st, Col-1st, Cv-2nd, HF-1st, Ath-1st | |||||||||||
| 1954• | AP-1st, UPI-1st, Lk-2nd, INS-1st, NE-1st, Col-1st, Cv-2nd, HF-1st, Tm-2nd, NABC-1st | |||||||||||||
| Robert | Watson | 1952 | Ath-3rd | |||||||||||
| Bob | Burrow | 1955 | AP-3rd, HF-2nd | |||||||||||
| 1956•• | AP-3rd, UPI-3rd, Lk-1st, NE-2nd, Col-2nd, Cv-2nd, HF-2nd, NABC-1st | |||||||||||||
| Johnny | Cox | 1957 | UPI-3rd, HF-3rd | |||||||||||
| 1959• | AP-1st, UPI-2nd, Lk-1st, NE-2nd, Cv-1st, HF-1st, SN-2nd, NABC-1st | |||||||||||||
| Vernon | Hatton | 1958 | Cv-1st, HF-1st | |||||||||||
| Billy Ray | Lickert | 1961 | HF-2nd | |||||||||||
| Cotton | Nash | 1962•• | AP-2nd, UPI-2nd, NABC-3rd, Lk-1st, Cv-2nd, HF-1st, SN-2nd, CA-1st | |||||||||||
| 1963•• | AP-2nd, NABC-2nd, BW-1st, UPI-2nd, Lk-2nd, Cv-2nd, HF | |||||||||||||
| 1964• | AP-1st, NABC-1st, BW-1st, UPI-1st, SN-2nd, Cv-1st, HF | |||||||||||||
| Louie | Dampier | 1966•• | AP-1st, NABC-2nd, UPI-2nd, Cv-1st, HF | |||||||||||
| 1967•• | AP-2nd, NABC-3rd, UPI-3rd, Cv-2nd, HF | |||||||||||||
| Thad | Jurecz | 1966 | AP-3rd | |||||||||||
| Pat | Riley | 1966 | AP-3rd, BW-1st, UPI-3rd, Cv-2nd, HF | |||||||||||
| Dan | Issel | 1969•• | AP-2nd, NABC-2nd, BW-1st, UPI-3rd, SN-2nd, Cv-1st, HF | |||||||||||
| 1970• | AP-1st, NABC-1st, BW-1st, UPI-1st, SN-1st, Cv-1st, HF | |||||||||||||
| Mike | Pratt | 1970 | Cv-2nd | |||||||||||
| Kevin | Grevey | 1974 | NABC-5th, HF | |||||||||||
| 1975•• | AP-2nd, NABC-2nd, BW-1st, UPI-2nd, SN-2nd, Cv-2nd, HF | |||||||||||||
| Jack | Givens | 1976 | HF | |||||||||||
| 1977 | NABC-4th, HF | |||||||||||||
| 1978•• | AP-2nd, NABC-2nd, BW-2nd, UPI-2nd, Cv-1st, WA-1st, HF | |||||||||||||
| Rick | Robey | 1977 | NABC-4th, Cv-1st | |||||||||||
| 1978•• | AP-3rd, NABC-1st, UPI-2nd, SN-2nd, Cv-1st, WA-1st, HF | |||||||||||||
| Kyle | Macy | 1978 | UPI-3rd | |||||||||||
| 1979 | NABC-3rd, Cv-2nd | |||||||||||||
| 1980• | AP-1st, NABC-1st, BW-1st, UPI-1st, SN-1st, Cv-1st, WA-1st, HF | |||||||||||||
| Sam | Bowie | 1981•• | AP-3rd, NABC-2nd, BW-2nd, UPI-3rd, SN-2nd, Cv-1st, BT-2nd, HF | |||||||||||
| 1984 | AP-2nd, SN-2nd | |||||||||||||
| Melvin | Turpin | 1983 | HF | |||||||||||
| 1984•• | AP-3rd, NABC-2nd, BW-2nd, UPI-3rd, BT-3rd | |||||||||||||
| Kenny | Walker | 1985•• | AP-2nd, NABC-2nd, BW-2nd, UPI-2nd, BT-2nd, WA-1st | |||||||||||
| 1986• | AP-1st, NABC-1st, BW-1st, UPI-1st, SN-2nd, BT-1st, WA-1st | |||||||||||||
| Rex | Chapman | 1988 | NABC-3rd, BT-3rd | |||||||||||
| Jamal | Mashburn | 1992 | BT-2nd | |||||||||||
| 1993• | AP-1st, NABC-1st, BW-1st, UPI 1st, SN-1st, BT-1st, WA-1st | |||||||||||||
| Tony | Delk | 1996• | AP-2nd, NABC-2nd, BW-1st, UPI-1st, SN-2nd, BT-2nd, WA-1st | |||||||||||
| Ron | Mercer | 1997• | AP-1st, NABC-1st, BW-1st, SN-2nd, BT-2nd, WA-1st | |||||||||||
| Scott | Padgett | 1999 | WA-1st | |||||||||||
| Tayshaun | Prince | 2001•• | AP-2nd, NABC-3rd, BW-2nd, BT-2nd, WA-1st | |||||||||||
| 2002 | AP-3rd, NABC-2nd | |||||||||||||
| Keith | Bogans | 2003 | AP-3rd, NABC-2nd, SN-3rd, BT-3rd | |||||||||||
| Jodie | Meeks | 2009 | AP-2nd, NABC-2nd, BW-2nd, SN-2nd, ESPN.com-2nd, Rivals.com-2nd, College Hoops.net-2nd | |||||||||||
| DeMarcus | Cousins | 2010 | AP-1st, WA-1st, CBS-1st, FOX-1st, Yahoo!-1st, Rivals-1st, NABC-2nd, TSN-2nd, BT-2nd, BW-2nd | |||||||||||
| John | Wall | 2010• | AP-1st, WA-1st, CBS-1st, FOX-1st, Yahoo!-1st, Rivals-1st, NABC-1st, TSN-1st, BT-1st, BW-1st | |||||||||||
| Terrence | Jones | 2011 | Yahoo!-3rd, CHN-4th | |||||||||||
| Anthony | Davis | 2012• | AP-1st, USBWA-1st; NABC-1st, SN-1st, CBS-1st, WA-1st | |||||||||||
| Michael | Kidd-Gilchrist | 2012•• | AP-3rd, USBWA-2nd, NABC-3rd, SN-2nd, CBS-2nd | |||||||||||
| Julius | Randle | 2014 | AP-3rd, NABC-3rd | |||||||||||
| Willie | Cauley-Stein | 2015• | AP-1st, USBWA-1st, NABC-1st, TSN-1st, NBC-1st, USA-1st, SI-2nd, CBS-1st, WA-1st | |||||||||||
| Karl-Anthony | Towns | 2015•• | AP-2nd, NABC-2nd, TSN-3rd, USA-1st, CBS-2nd, SI-2nd | |||||||||||
| Tyler | Ulis | 2016• | AP-1st, USBWA-2nd, NABC-2nd, TSN-1st, USA-1st, CBS-1st, SI-1st, WA-1st | |||||||||||
| Jamal | Murray | 2016 | AP-3rd, USA-2nd, CBS-3rd | |||||||||||
| Malik | Monk | 2017•• | AP-2nd, USBWA-2nd, NABC-2nd, TSN-2nd, USA-2nd, NBC-2nd; ESPN-3rd; CBS-3rd | |||||||||||
| De'Aaron | Fox | 2017 | CBS-3rd, USA-3rd, ESPN-3rd | |||||||||||
| PJ | Washington | 2019••• | AP-3rd, USBWA-3rd, NABC-3rd, TSN-3rd, SI-3rd, USA-2nd, BT-3rd, LO | |||||||||||
John Wall – Named 2010 Adolph Rupp Trophy National Player of the Year; Yahoo! Sports National Player of the Year; Rivals.com National Player of the Year
Anthony Davis – Named 2012 AP National Player of the Year; USBWA Oscar Robertson Tropy (National Player of the Year); Spalding Pete Newell Big Man of the Year; NABC Defensive Player of the Year; Sporting News National
Player of the Year; Sporting News National Freshman of the Year; CBSSports.com National Player of the Year; CBSSports.com National Freshman of the Year; Basketball Times National Player of the Year; Adolph Rupp Trophy
National Player of the Year; John R. Wooden Award National Player of the Year; Naismith College Player of the Year
Key: • Consensus; ••2nd Team Consensus; •••3rd Team Consensus; AP: Associated Press; Ath: Athletic Publications; BT: Basketball Times; CA: Coach and Athlete; CBS: CBSSports.com CH: College Humor Magazine; Col: Colliers (Basketball Coaches); CY: Converse Yearbook; DD: Don Dunphy; ESPN: ESPN.com; FOX: FOX Sports; HF: Helms Foundation; INS: International News Service; LM: Look Magazine; LO: Lute Olson; NABC: National Association of Basketball Coaches; NBC: NBC Sports; NEA: Newspaper Enterprises Association; Pic: Pic Magazine; Rivals: Rivals.com; SI: Sports Illustrated; To: Tempo; TSN: The Sporting News; TM: True Magazine; USBWA: U.S. Basketball Writers Association; UPI: United Press International; USA: USA Today; WA: John R. Wooden Award; Yahoo: Yahoo! Sports