Kentucky Basketball All-Americans
A total of 56 Wildcats have earned All-America honors, as recognized by the NCAA. Of those players, 22 have been named Consensus All-America First Team 27 times. The following is a chronological listing of all UK basketball players who have been named to the NCAA-recognized All-America teams, beginning with forward Basil Hayden in 1921. The NCAA currently utilizes the Associated Press, the National Association of Basketball Coaches, the U.S. Basketball Writers Association and The Sporting News to determine Consensus All-Americans.
| 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 | |||||||||||
| Immanuel | Quickley | 2020 | Athl-3rd, CBS-3rd | |||||||||||
| Oscar | Tshiebwe | 2022• | AP-1st, Athl-1st, CBS-1st, ESPN-1st, Fox-1st, LO-1st, NABC-1st, SI-1st, TSN1st, USBWA-1st, USA-1st, WA-1st | |||||||||||
| 2023•• | AP-2nd, LO-1st, NABC-2nd, TSN-3rd, USBWA-2nd, WA-1st | |||||||||||||
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
