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Blue Ribbon announces complete All-American teams, includes VCU’s Graham

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Graham needs 581 points to break Eric Maynor’s all-time scoring record at VCU. He posted a career-best 533 this past season.

Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook has released its list of All-Americans, a list that includes VCU senior star, Treveon Graham.

The likely Preseason A-10 Player of the Year, Graham returns for his senior season as the only conference player to return from the league’s First Team and from a conference that sent six teams to this past season’s NCAA tournament. Graham spent the summer bouncing from elite camp to elite camp, making stops at the Kevin Durant, Lebron James and Chris Paul camps in prepperation for a senior season in which he’ll attempt to become VCU’s all-time leading scorer, needing 581 points to break the record held by 2009 graduate, Eric Maynor.

Graham makes Blue Ribbon’s All-American Fourth team alongside the Texas’ Myles Turner, Arizona’s Rondae Hollis-Jefferson, UConn’s Ryan Boatwright and Gonzaga’s Kevin Pangos. Wisconsin’s Frank Kaminsky was picked as the yearbook’s Preseason Player of the Year with Duke’s Jahlil Okafor as the NCAA’s newcomer of the year.

PLAYER OF THE YEAR

FRANK KAMINSKY • 7-0 SR, Wisconsin

NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR

JAHLIL OKAFOR • 6-11 FR, Duke

2014-15 BLUE RIBBON ALL-AMERICA TEAMS

FIRST TEAM

MONTREZL HARRELL

6-8 JR, Louisville

MALCOLM BROGDON

6-5 JR, Virginia

FRANK KAMINSKY

7-0 SR, Wisconsin

MARCUS PAIGE

6-1 JR, North Carolina

FRED VANVLEET

5-11 JR, Wichita State

SECOND TEAM

SAM DEKKER

6-9 JR, Wisconsin

KARL-ANTHONY TOWNS

6-11 FR, Kentucky

JAHLIL OKAFOR

7-0 FR, Duke

CARIS LEVERT

6-7 JR, Michigan

AARON HARRISON

6-6 SO, Kentucky

THIRD TEAM

GEORGES NIANG

6-8 JR, Iowa State

WILLIE CAULEY-STEIN

7-0 JR, Kentucky

RON BAKER

6-3 JR, Wichita State

TYLER HAWS

6-5 SR, BYU

JUWAN STATEN

6-1 SR, West Virginia

FOURTH TEAM

MYLES TURNER

6-11 FR, Texas

RONDAE HOLLIS-JEFFERSON

6-7 SO, Arizona

TREVEON GRAHAM

6-6 SR, VCU

RYAN BOATWRIGHT

6-2 SR, Connecticut

KEVIN PANGOS

6-2 SR, Gonzaga

A two-time graduate of VCU (School of the Arts '07, Center for Sport Leadership '10), Mat is a co-founder of VCU Ram Nation and a longtime fan as the ...