Only in the Big East can you be the third-best player in your conference and still be considered one of the five best in the country.
For the time ever, a league had three members of The Associated Press' All-America team as Ray Allen of Connecticut, Allen Iverson of Georgetown and Kerry Kittles of Villanova were named to the first team Tuesday.Marcus Camby of Massachusetts came within one vote of being a unanimous selection and Tim Duncan of Wake Forest rounded out the team, which was selected by the same 66-member national media panel that votes for the weekly Top 25.
Keith Van Horn of Utah led the second team and was joined by Tony Delk of Kentucky, Danny Fortson of Cincinnati, Jacque Vaughn of Kansas and John Wallace of Syracuse, yet another player from the Big East.
Teammates have made the first team - the last time in 1991 with UNLV's Stacey Augmon and Larry Johnson - but never three players from the same conference.
Camby, the 6-foot-11 center who drew as much attention this season for collapsing before a game as for what he did on the court, is the first player from Massachusetts selected to the first team.
Duncan and Kittles both ended long droughts for first-team honors for their schools.
The third team featured two freshmen - Stephon Marbury of Georgia Tech and Shareef Abdur-Rahim of California - Lorenzen Wright of Memphis, Brian Evans of Indiana and Jason Sasser of Texas Tech.