Penn Honored as AP Third Team All-American – Ohio State Buckeyes
3/14/2000 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
March 14, 2000
Cincinnati center Kenyon Martin, who will miss the NCAA tournament%^$because of a broken leg, received the most votes Monday for the AP%^$All-America basketball team.%^$
%^$Iowa State forward Marcus Fizer was second in the balloting. Also%^$selected to the first team were Indiana guard A.J. Guyton, Texas center%^$Chris Mihm and Notre Dame forward Troy Murphy.%^$
%^$Ohio State senior guard Scoonie Penn was a third-team selection for the%^$second straight season, and he was joined by seniors Pepe Sanchez of%^$Temple, Mark Madsen of Stanford and Eduardo Najera of Oklahoma, and%^$LSU sophomore Stromile Swift.%^$
%^$Martin, just one vote shy of being a unanimous selection, also was the%^$Conference USA player of the year after averaging 18.9 points, 9.7%^$rebounds and 3.4 blocked shots. The 6-foot-8 senior broke his leg three%^$minutes into the Bearcats’ tournament quarterfinal matchup with Saint%^$Louis.%^$
%^$The loss caused Cincinnati, ranked No. 1 at the time, to be selected as%^$second seed for the NCAA Tournament.%^$
%^$Martin was selected to the first team on all but one of the ballots from the%^$68-member national media panel, and had 336 points in the 5-3-1 system.%^$
%^$Fizer, the Big 12 player of the year and the conference’s leading scorer the%^$last two seasons, led the Cyclones to their first league title since 1945 and%^$is their first All-American since Gary Thompson in 1957.%^$
%^$The 6-8 junior averaged 23.2 points and 7.5 rebounds while shooting 57%^$percent from the field, including 43 percent from 3-point range. He%^$received 57 first-team votes and 313 points.%^$
%^$Guyton, the Big Ten player of the year and the fourth-leading scorer in%^$Indiana history with 2,097 points, was on 33 first-team ballots and had 226%^$points.%^$
%^$The 6-1 senior averaged 20.3 points this season while shooting 42 percent%^$from 3-point range. He is Indiana’s career leader with 280 3-pointers, and%^$was the first Hoosier to be an All-American since Calbert Cheaney in%^$1993.%^$
%^$Mihm received just 17 first-team votes, but his 200 points were one more%^$than Murphy, who was on 27 first-team ballots.%^$
%^$Mihm, a 7-foot junior, averaged 17.9 points, 10.6 rebounds and 2.4 blocks%^$while shooting 53 percent for the Longhorns. He is Texas’ first%^$All-American since the AP began selecting a team in 1948. In 1935, Jack%^$Gray was a consensus All-America selection.%^$
%^$Murphy, the Big East player of the year, was the first player to lead the%^$conference in scoring and rebounding in the same season. The 6-9%^$sophomore averaged 22.8 points and 10.8 rebounds, and is Notre Dame’s%^$first All-American since Adrian Dantley repeated in 1976.%^$
%^$Two players from Duke and Michigan State led the second team.%^$
%^$Duke senior guard Chris Carrawell, who finished one point behind Murphy%^$in the voting, and teammate Shane Battier, a junior forward, were selected%^$to the second team. Michigan State senior guard Mateen Cleaves, a%^$first-team selection last season and a second-team pick in 1998 who missed%^$the first 10 weeks this season with a broken foot, and teammate Morris%^$Peterson, a senior forward, also were on the second team.%^$
%^$The final member of the second team was Fresno State senior guard%^$Courtney Alexander, the nation’s leading scorer at 25.3 points per game.%^$
%^$None of the players selected for the preseason All-America team made the%^$first team. Joining Penn and Cleaves on that team were Chris Porter of%^$Auburn, Quentin Richardson of DePaul and Terence Morris of Maryland.
