An All-American team is an honorary sports team composed of the best amateur players of a specific season for each team positionâÂÂwhich 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 as a unit, the term is used in U.S. team sports to refer to players who national media members select. Walter Camp selected the first All-America team in the early days of American football in 1889. The 2024 NCAA Women'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 Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) for the 2023âÂÂ24 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The AP, TSN and USBWA choose three teams, while WBCA lists ten honorees.
A consensus All-America team in women's basketball has never been organized. This differs from the practice in men's basketball, in which the NCAA uses a combination of selections by AP, USBWA, the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC), and Sporting News to determine a consensus All-America team. The selection of a consensus All-America men's basketball team is possible because all four organizations select at least a first and second team, with only the USBWA not selecting a third team.
Before the 2017âÂÂ18 season, a consensus women's All-America team couldn't be determined because the AP had been the only body that divided its women's selections into separate teams. The USBWA first named different teams in 2017âÂÂ18. The women's counterpart to the NABC, the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA), continues the USBWA's former practice of selecting a single 10-member (plus ties) team. Before the 2023âÂÂ24 season, Sporting News did not select an All-America team in women's basketball.
Announced on March 20, 2024. The teams are selected by the same 28-member media panel that votes on the AP poll during the season. Of note:
Honorable mention selections are those who did not make one of the first three teams, but received at least one vote from the media panel.
The USBWA announced its 15-member team, divided into first, second, and third teams, plus honorable mention selections, on March 19, 2024. Vote totals were not released.
The Sporting News announced its 15-member team, divided into first, second and third teams, on March 19, 2024.
Announced on April 4, 2024.
College Sports Communicators (known before the 2022âÂÂ23 season as the College Sports Information Directors of America) will announce its 2024 Academic All-America team on April 17, 2024. The Division I Academic All-American of the Year is indicated in bold.