Gregg Doyel
CBS SportsLine.com Senior Writer

Time to get down with the best All-Americans around

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CBS SportsLine.com announces its national awards for the 2005-06 college basketball season. The All-Americans are in order, by the way -- one through 15.

All-America first team

Shelden Williams averaged 18.8 points and 10.4 boards during the regular season. (Getty Images)  
Shelden Williams averaged 18.8 points and 10.4 boards during the regular season. (Getty Images)  
J.J. Redick, SG, Duke: Will finish first or second in the national scoring race on a Top 10 team. Enough said.

Adam Morrison, SF, Gonzaga: What he said.

Brandon Roy, SF, Washington: Best of the rest. Scores, passes, rebounds, defends and leads at an all-around level unseen anywhere else.

Randy Foye, SG, Villanova: Scores, rebounds, distributes, defends. Not as well as Roy, but better than any other perimeter player in America.

Shelden Williams, C, Duke: Having an Emeka Okafor-like senior season, and in case you forgot, Okafor was the 2004 National Player of the Year.

All-America second team

Tyler Hansbrough, C, North Carolina: Freshman, senior, whatever. He's been spectacular.

Glen Davis, C, LSU: Big Baby has matured into a 20-and-10 guy for the SEC's best team.

Mike Gansey, SG, West Virginia: Kevin Pittsnogle gets more attention, but Gansey is the Mountaineers' conscience. Shoots it a ton, menacing on defenses and changes a possession with a single cut.

Nick Fazekas, PF, Nevada: Best player you never see on TV. Averages 21-and-10, shoots like a guard, blocks shots like a center.

Leon Powe, PF, Cal: Beast on the boards. Man in the middle. Pick your alliteration, but don't forget this one: All-American.

All-America third team

Guard Chris Quinn puts the fight in the Irish. (AP)  
Guard Chris Quinn puts the fight in the Irish. (AP)  
Shannon Brown, SG, Michigan State: Not the MSU wing you were expecting. Maurice Ager scores more (19.1 ppg to Brown's 18.2), but Brown does everything else better, and more consistently. Ager's the highlight reel. Brown's the anchor.

Rudy Gay, SF, UConn: Hasn't dominated as expected -- not consistently -- but changes games at both ends.

Chris Quinn, PG, Notre Dame: Has had a better year than Chris Thomas ever did. Among Big East leaders in scoring (18.2 ppg), assists (6.2), 3-point shooting (44.4 percent) and steals (1.6). And the toughest SOB in college hoops.

Paul Millsap, PF, Louisiana Tech: Positioned to become the first player to lead the country in rebounding three straight years. And scores 20 ppg.

P.J. Tucker, SF, Texas: Scores and rebounds like a power forward, handles like a guard, leads with a confidence and charisma you've got to see to understand. Beats out Villanova's Allan Ray and Tennessee's Chris Lofton.

All-Freshman

Tyler Hansbrough, C, UNC: His RPM revs higher than yours.

Dominic James, PG, Marquette: What a future this scoring point has.

Tyrus Thomas, PF, LSU: Raise your hand if you'd heard of him in October.

Jamont Gordon, Mississippi State: The next Dwayne Wade. I'm telling you.

Shawne Williams, SF, Memphis: Gets last spot over Kansas' Brandon Rush.

Player of the Year

Adam Redick, Gonzuke: Sue me. Redick and Morrison are so far ahead of the field, yet so difficult to separate, I can't break the tie. OK, I could. But won't.

Freshman of the Year

Tyler Hansbrough, UNC: At 18.9 ppg, 7.5 rpg and 58.9-percent shooting, he's competing not with contemporaries -- but with freshman luminaries Carmelo Anthony (2003), Larry Hughes (1998) and Kenny Anderson (1990).

Coach of the Year

Bruce Pearl, Tennessee: With the same players that got Buzz Peterson fired -- minus 2004-05 leading scorer Scooter McFadgon and stud big man Brandon Crump -- Pearl led the Volunteers into the national top 10. No fricking way.

About Gregg Doyel

author photoGregg Doyel is a columnist for CBSSports.com. He covered the ACC for the Charlotte Observer, the Marlins for the Miami Herald, and Brooksville (Fla.) Hernando for the Tampa Tribune. More importantly, he is 4-0 as an amateur boxer, with three knockouts. Follow Gregg Doyel on Twitter.
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