Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, March 16, 1993 TAG: 9303160067
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: B1 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
CLOSE VOTING FOR ALL-AMERICA
Kentucky's Jamal Mashburn, who has said he won't play college basketball next season, and Indiana's Calbert Cheaney, the most prolific scorer in Big Ten history, were the top vote-getters Monday on the 1992-93 AP All-America team.Joining the forwards on the first team were point guard Bobby Hurley of Duke, the NCAA's all-time assist leader, swingman Anfernee Hardaway of Memphis State and power forward Chris Webber of Michigan.
Mashburn, the Southeastern Conference player of the year, received 317 points in the balloting of a 65-member panel of writers and broadcasters. That was one more point than Cheaney, the Big Ten player of the year who was selected on the first team on 62 ballots. Mashburn was on 61 ballots.
Players received 5 points for earning a first-team berth, 3 for the second team and 1 point for the third team.
Hurley led Duke to the title game in each of his first three seasons. He enters this year's tournament with 1,060 assists. Hurley, like Cheaney a senior, was on 58 first teams and finished with 309 points.
Hardaway, probably the best one-man show in college basketball, and Mashburn are juniors. Hardaway received 44 first-team votes and 277 points.
Webber, the center of attention for Michigan's run to the title game last season with five freshman starters, dunked his way to 42 first-team votes and 270 points.
The second team featured junior forward Rodney Rogers of Wake Forest, sophomore forward Glenn Robinson of Purdue, senior guards J.R. Rider of UNLV and Terry Dehere of Seton Hall and junior center Eric Montross of North Carolina.
The third team had three seniors - guards Nick Van Exel of Cincinnati and Allan Houston of Tennessee and forward Chris Mills of Arizona - and juniors Grant Hill of Duke and Billy McCaffrey of Vanderbilt.