Do you use preseason rankings? End of the regular season rankings? Final rankings?
NCAA Basketball:
2015 1st Team All-American
D'Angelo Russell Ohio State (didn't end up ranked in the top 25)
2014:
2 of the 5 1st Team All-Americans ended up ranked in the top 10. The other 3 were ranked 14, 20 and 22. Kentucky was the runner up that year and only had a 3rd team All-American
2013:
National Champs Louisville didn't have a 1st or 2nd team All American.
I know what you are thinking. "This guy has too much time on his hands or knows way too much about NCAA basketball" and you would be right about the too much time.
Just because you win and end up highly ranked doesn't mean you have the best individual players.
Lexington boys a few years ago were a .500 team and end up making it to the championship. Was it because of the All-state players (I didn't research that so don't know if they had any) or was it a team that got hot at the right time?
