01-19-2016, 01:07 PM
I take it you are limiting it to McDonald's All-Americans and not other kinds of All-Americans? There are a number of other organizations that do national all-American teams. Marta Sniezek was a Parade All-American in basketball--also an All-American in soccer. She was also a McDonald's All-American nominee--I don't quite know what that means.
The McDonald's system does cover Canada but no other countries, so Alanna would not have been eligible. Is selection to FIBA U19 the equivalent? I imagine pretty much all the Americans on the FIBA U19 team were McDonald's All-Americans.
I did a similar analysis based on ESPN rankings a few years back. In general, as much as I didn't want to admit it, the ESPN ranking is a pretty good predictor of college contributions in a broad way. People ranked 1-10 almost always were four year starters, people ranked 10-60 frequently developed into a starter before they were finished, and people ranked above 60 seldom were more than role players. Exceptions to everything of course.
The McDonald's system does cover Canada but no other countries, so Alanna would not have been eligible. Is selection to FIBA U19 the equivalent? I imagine pretty much all the Americans on the FIBA U19 team were McDonald's All-Americans.
I did a similar analysis based on ESPN rankings a few years back. In general, as much as I didn't want to admit it, the ESPN ranking is a pretty good predictor of college contributions in a broad way. People ranked 1-10 almost always were four year starters, people ranked 10-60 frequently developed into a starter before they were finished, and people ranked above 60 seldom were more than role players. Exceptions to everything of course.