1963 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
| 1963 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans | |
|---|---|
The 1963 consensus first team. Clockwise from top left: Bonham, Harkness, Thacker, Kramer, Heyman. | |
| Awarded for | 1962–63 NCAA University Division men's basketball season |
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The consensus 1963 College Basketball All-American team as determined by aggregating the results of five major All-American teams.[1] To earn "consensus" status, a player must win honors from a majority of the following teams: the Associated Press, the USBWA, The United Press International, the National Association of Basketball Coaches, and the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA). 1963 was the last year that the NEA was used to determine consensus All-American teams.
1963 Consensus All-America team
[edit]| Player | Position | Class | Team |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ron Bonham | F | Junior | Cincinnati |
| Jerry Harkness | G | Senior | Loyola (IL) |
| Art Heyman | F | Senior | Duke |
| Barry Kramer | G/F | Junior | NYU |
| Tom Thacker | G | Senior | Cincinnati |
| Player | Position | Class | Team |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gary Bradds | F | Junior | Ohio State |
| Bill Green | F | Senior | Colorado State |
| Cotton Nash | F | Junior | Kentucky |
| Rod Thorn | G/F | Senior | West Virginia |
| Nate Thurmond | C | Senior | Bowling Green |
Individual All-America teams
[edit]| All-America Team | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First team | Second team | Third team | ||||||
| Player | School | Player | School | Player | School | |||
| Associated Press[2] | Ron Bonham | Cincinnati | Bill Bradley | Princeton | Bill Green | Colorado State | ||
| Gary Bradds | Ohio State | Walt Hazzard | UCLA | Eddie Miles | Seattle | |||
| Jerry Harkness | Loyola (IL) | Cotton Nash | Kentucky | Jimmy Rayl | Indiana | |||
| Art Heyman | Duke | Tom Thacker | Cincinnati | Nick Werkman | Seton Hall | |||
| Barry Kramer | NYU | Rod Thorn | West Virginia | Tony Yates | Cincinnati | |||
| USBWA[3] | Ron Bonham | Cincinnati | No second or third teams (10-man first team) | |||||
| Ken Charlton | Colorado | |||||||
| Bill Green | Colorado State | |||||||
| Jerry Harkness | Loyola (IL) | |||||||
| Walt Hazzard | UCLA | |||||||
| Art Heyman | Duke | |||||||
| Barry Kramer | NYU | |||||||
| Cotton Nash | Kentucky | |||||||
| Tom Thacker | Cincinnati | |||||||
| Rod Thorn | West Virginia | |||||||
| NABC[4] | Ron Bonham | Cincinnati | Mel Counts | Oregon State | Gary Bradds | Ohio State | ||
| Bill Green | Colorado State | Walt Hazzard | UCLA | Bill Bradley | Princeton | |||
| Jerry Harkness | Loyola (IL) | Cotton Nash | Kentucky | Joe Caldwell | Arizona State | |||
| Art Heyman | Duke | Rod Thorn | West Virginia | Barry Kramer | NYU | |||
| Tom Thacker | Cincinnati | Nick Werkman | Seton Hall | Tony Yates | Cincinnati | |||
| UPI[5] | Ron Bonham | Cincinnati | Bill Bradley | Princeton | Bill Green | Colorado State | ||
| Gary Bradds | Ohio State | Barry Kramer | NYU | Walt Hazzard | UCLA | |||
| Jerry Harkness | Loyola (IL) | Cotton Nash | Kentucky | Eddie Miles | Seattle | |||
| Art Heyman | Duke | Rod Thorn | West Virginia | Dave Stallworth | Wichita State | |||
| Tom Thacker | Cincinnati | Nate Thurmond | Bowling Green | Nick Werkman | Seton Hall | |||
| NEA | Bill Green | Colorado State | Ron Bonham | Cincinnati | No third team | |||
| Art Heyman | Duke | Bill Bradley | Princeton | |||||
| Barry Kramer | NYU | Jerry Harkness | Loyola (IL) | |||||
| Tom Thacker | Cincinnati | Cotton Nash | Kentucky | |||||
| Nate Thurmond | Bowling Green | Eddie Miles | Seattle | |||||
AP Honorable Mention:[6]
- Terry Baker, Oregon State
- Rick Barry, Miami (Florida)
- Bill Buntin, Michigan
- Joe Caldwell, Arizona State
- Ken Charlton, Colorado
- Mel Counts, Oregon State
- Billy Cunningham, North Carolina
- Tom Dose, Stanford
- Dave Downey, Illinois
- Vinnie Ernst, Providence
- Mel Garland, Purdue
- Ira Harge, New Mexico
- Lyle Harger, Houston
- Mack Herndon, Bradley
- Fred Hetzel, Davidson
- Layton Johns, Auburn
- Gus Johnson, Idaho
- Jim Kerwin, Tulane
- Don Kessinger, Ole Miss
- Jeff Mullins, Duke
- Willie Murrell, Kansas State
- Flynn Robinson, Wyoming
- Paul Silas, Creighton
- Dave Stallworth, Wichita State
- Red Stroud, Mississippi State
- Nate Thurmond, Bowling Green
- George Wilson, Cincinnati
Academic All-Americans
[edit]Academic All-American teams were selected for the first time in 1963.[7][8]
| Player | School | Class |
|---|---|---|
| Art Becker | Arizona State | Junior |
| Ken Charlton | Colorado | Senior |
| Raymond Flynn | Providence | Senior |
| Rod Thorn | West Virginia | Senior |
| Gerry Ward | Boston College | Senior |
| Player | School | Class |
|---|---|---|
| Terry Baker | Oregon State | Senior |
| Jay Buckley | Duke | Junior |
| Don Clemetson | Stanford | Senior |
| Brian Generalovich | Pittsburgh | Junior |
| Joe Dan Gold | Mississippi State | Senior |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ NCAA Record Book - Award Winners p.137. Accessed 2009-05-05. 2009-05-04.
- ^ AP All-America Teams
- ^ "USBWA Men's All-Americans". Archived from the original on October 7, 2008. Retrieved May 5, 2009.
- ^ All-America - Division I (1960's) Archived 2008-12-01 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ 2005 NCAA Basketball's Finest - All-Americans (UPI and NEA) Archived 2009-07-21 at WebCite p.208
- ^ "Heyman, Bonham Head AP Squad". St. Joseph Gazette. March 1, 1963. Retrieved December 26, 2013.
- ^ AP (March 27, 1963). "Pick Academic all-America". Schenectady Gazette. Retrieved October 9, 2013.
- ^ AP (March 27, 1963). "Terry Baker set to sign with LA Rams". St. Petersburg Times. Retrieved October 9, 2013.