Rivals.com Names Shane Battier Rivals.com Preseason NCAA Player of the Year.Sports Editors/Basketball Writers & Columnists SEATTLE--(BW SportsWire)--Nov. 15, 2000 Rivals.com (www.rivals.com), a leading online network of sports team and affinity channels, today named Duke senior forward Shane Battier Shane Courtney Battier (born September 9 1978 in Birmingham, Michigan) is an American professional basketball player with the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association and the U.S. national team. the Rivals.com preseason NCAA Basketball This article is about the Nintendo game. For the collegiate sport, see College basketball. NCAA Basketball (known as World League Basketball Player of the Year. Battier was a unanimous selection by Rivals.com editors for the preseason honor and is a leading early candidate for this season's Wooden Award (www.woodenaward.com), given annually to the nation's top player. A consensus second team All-America selection a year ago, the 6-foot-8, 220-pound senior from Birmingham, Mich., has been named a pre-season First Team All-America selection by Rivals.com. "Shane Battier is the poster boy for what's good about college basketball College basketball most often refers to the American basketball competitive governance structure established by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA. History
Last season, Battier led Blue Devils in scoring (17.4 ppg), blocked shots (70), three-point percentage (.444) and charges taken (20). He is the two-time defending National Defensive Player of the Year. Other players selected to the Rivals.com preseason All America First America First may refer to:
Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. guard Joseph Forte Joseph Xavier "Joe" Forte (born March 23, 1981 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American professional basketball player. He currently plays in Russia with UNICS Kazan. Younger brother, Jason Forte played basketball for Brown University and was named Ivy League player of the year in 2004. , Notre Dame forward Troy Murphy and Arizona center Loren Woods. Rivals.com Second Team All America selections include Duke guard Jason Williams, SMU SMU Southern Methodist University SMU Solid (Waste) Management Unit SMU Saint Mary's University (Halifax, Nova Scotia; Philippines) SMU Singapore Management University SMU Saint Mary's University of Minnesota guard Jeryl Sasser, Arkansas guard/forward Joe Johnson, Stanford guard/forward Casey Jacobson and Maryland forward Terence Morris. Below is a breakdown of the Rivals.com First Team All America selections:
Name Position Hometown Ht/Wt/Class College
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Jamaal Tinsley Guard Brooklyn, NY 6-3 / 195 / Sr Iowa State
Joseph Forte Guard Greenbelt, MD 6-4 / 185 / So North Carolina
Shane Battier Forward Birmingham, MI 6-8 / 220 / Sr Duke
Troy Murphy Forward Morristown, NJ 6-10 / 237 / Jr Notre Dame
Loren Woods Center St. Louis, MO 7-1 / 251 / Sr Arizona
Below is a breakdown of the Rivals.com Second Team All America
selections:
Name Position Hometown Ht/Wt/Class College
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Jason Williams Guard Plainfield, NJ 6-2 / 196 / So Duke
Jeryl Sasser Guard Dallas, TX 6-6 / 200 / Sr SMU
Joe Johnson Guard/ Little Rock, AR 6-8 / 225 / So Arkansas
Forward
Casey Jacobsen Guard/ Glendora, CA 6-6 / 210 / So Stanford
Forward
Terance Morris Forward Frederick, MD 6-9 / 205 / Sr Maryland
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