Ranking College Basketball's Last 10 AP All-American First Teams

College Basketball's Associated Press All-American Team is the gold standard for college basketball achievements.

The players who make up these first fives are the best of the best from an individual year of hoops action.

The following is a ranking of the last 10 AP All-American First Teams.

The Naismith National Player of the Year (POY) is noted in each year's list.

10. 2001-02

Dan Dickau: Gonzaga

Juan Dixon: Maryland

Drew Gooden: Kansas

Steve Logan: Cincinnati

Jay Williams: Duke (POY)

This could easily be dubbed "The Year of the Guards" since four of the five players selected to the First Team were backcourt players.

Williams and Logan were lethal, scoring PGs. Williams set the NCAA tournament record for three-pointers attempted (66).

Dixon was the only player in NCAA history to accumulate 2,000 points, 300 steals and 200 three-point field goals.

Gooden was a beast on the boards, leading the nation in rebounding.

Dickau was the Zags' first First-Teamer.

9. 2003-04

Josh Childress: Stanford

Ryan Gomes: Providence

Jameer Nelson: Saint Joseph's (POY)

Emeka Okafor: Connecticut

Lawrence Roberts: Mississippi State

Nelson left the Hawks as the best player in the program's history, as its all-time leader in scoring (2,094 points), assists (714) and steals (256).

Okafor led the nation in blocks that season and was also named National Defensive Player of the Year.

Gomes was a big-bodied combo forward who could do it inside and out.

Chidress was a long, multi-talented wing who won both the Pac-10 POY and the tournament MVP.

Roberts was a legit double-double guy.

8. 2004-05

Andrew Bogut: Utah (POY)

Chris Paul: Wake Forest

J.J. Redick: Duke

Wayne Simien: Kansas

Hakim Warrick: Syracuse

A great scorer (20.4 points per game) and rebounder (12.2 rebounds per game), Bogut led the nation in double-doubles with 26.

Known for his great offensive output, Paul was selected as an ACC All-Defensive Team member in both of his years at Wake Forest.

Redick set the record for the most consecutive free-throws made in the ACC with 54.

Simien was the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award winner his final year, recognizing him as the nation's top senior men's basketball player.

Warrick was also the 2005 Big East POY.  

7. 2010-11

Jimmer Fredette: Brigham Young (POY)

JaJuan Johnson: Purdue

Nolan Smith: Duke

Jared Sullinger: Ohio State

Kemba Walker: Connecticut

Fredette led the nation in scoring, putting in nearly 29 points per game.

Double-double dude Sullinger was also the Freshman POY.

Walker was the Bob Cousy Award winner (the top point guard in the nation).

Smith was a potent combo guard who could dominate on either end of the court.

Johnson was selected as the Newell Big Man Award winner, given to the year's best big man.

6. 2005-06

Randy Foye: Villanova

Adam Morrison: Gonzaga

J.J. Redick: Duke (POY)

Brandon Roy: Washington

Shelden Williams: Duke

Redick finished his career as Duke's all-time leading scorer (2,769)

Morrison led the nation in scoring with 28.1 points per game.

Roy was also the Pac-10 POY.

Foye was also the Big East POY.

Williams was selected two consecutive years as the NABC Defensive Player of the Year.

5. 2009-10

DeMarcus Cousins: Kentucky

Wesley Johnson: Syracuse

Scottie Reynolds: Villanova

Evan Turner: Ohio State (POY)

John Wall: Kentucky

Turner won back to back Big Ten scoring championships—17.3 points per game in 08-09; 20.4 points per game in 09-10.

Wall and Cousins formed a dynamic duo, immediately dominating the SEC from day one.

Johnson was also selected as the Big East POY.

Reynolds ended his career as the second-leading scorer in Villanova history with 2,222 points.

4. 2006-07

Arron Afflalo: UCLA

Kevin Durant: Texas (POY)

Acie Law: Texas A&M

Greg Oden: Ohio State

Alando Tucker: Wisconsin

Averaging nearly 26 points and 11 rebounds per game, Durant walked away with almost every national POY award in his one and only season at Texas.

Oden, throughout his high school and college years, never lost a home game.

Afflalo was a solid scorer (17.4 points per game) and a dominating defender.

Tucker holds the all-time Wisconsin scoring record (2,147 points).

Law is the great nephew of Chicago Cubs legend Ernie Banks (I know that is not a basketball-related fact, but "Mr. Cub" was my favorite baseball player when I was growing up).

3. 2002-03

Nick Collison: Kansas

T.J. Ford: Texas (POY)

Josh Howard: Wake Forest

Dwyane Wade: Marquette

David West: Xavier

Ford led the Longhorns in scoring, assists and steals in both of the seasons he played for UT.

Wade exploded in the 2003 NCAA tournament, leading Marquette to their first Final Four appearance in 16 years.

Never flashy but always excellent, Collison finished his collegiate career as the Big 12 all-time scoring leader (since surpassed by Texas Tech's Andre Emmett).

Howard was named the National POY by FOX, College Insider and Basketball Digest.

West was selected as the United States Basketball Writers Association National POY.

2. 2007-08

D.J. Augustin: Texas

Michael Beasley: Kansas State

Chris Douglas: Roberts Memphis

Tyler Hansbrough: North Carolina (POY)

Kevin Love: UCLA

Hansbrough is one of only four players (with Danny Green and Wake Forest's Tim Duncan and Rusty LaRue) to beat Mike Krzyzewski-coached teams four times at Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Love, while ringing up 23 double-doubles as a freshman, was selected as both the Pac-10 Player of the Year and Pac-10 Freshman of the Year.

Beasley's 28 double-doubles broke the freshman record previously held by Carmelo Anthony.

Douglas-Roberts averaged 23.3 points per game in the 2008 NCAA tournament.

Augustin was selected as the 2008 Bob Cousy (top PG) Award winner.

1. 2008-09

DeJuan Blair: Pittsburgh

Stephen Curry: Davidson

Blake Griffin: Oklahoma (POY)

Tyler Hansbrough: North Carolina

James Harden: Arizona State

When Griffin swept all six of the national player of the year awards and fellow Sooner Sam Bradford won the Heisman Trophy, the University of Oklahoma became the first school to have a winner in both top basketball and football individual awards in the same year.

Hansbrough was a unanimous All-ACC selection each of his four years at North Carolina.

Curry led the nation in scoring with 28.6 points per game.

Blair (along with Connecticut center Hasheem Thabeet) shared the co-Big East Player of the Year award.

Harden almost single-handedly elevated the ASU Sun Devil basketball program.