McDonalds All-Americans and NCAA Champions

• Prescott

  ...Since 1979, with the exception of Maryland in 2002, every NCAA champion had at least one McDonald's All-American on its roster.....
  
  
  http://content.usatoday.com/communities/campusrivalry/post/2010/03/nine-sweet-16-teams-have-zero-mcdonalds-all-americans-on-roster/1
• september63

  

  Interesting sidenote. Since 1979, Duke has followed this up with (1) former player winning an NBA Championship. Danny Ferry with san Antonio.
• september63

  

  I dont like the smell of John Wall repeating 8th grade either. Getting a bit bigger/stronger right before his freshman year? Shady at best.
• thedynasty1998

  

  september63 wrote: I dont like the smell of John Wall repeating 8th grade either. Getting a bit bigger/stronger right before his freshman year? Shady at best.

  A lot of kids do that these days, and I don't think there's anything wrong with it. Although in Wall's case, he just held himself out of the NBA for an extra year, so it really hurt him.
• UA5straightin2008

  

  ^^he was also cut from his basketball team as a sophomore for a "bad tude"
  
  http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/news?slug=jn-wall120409&prov=yhoo&type=lgns
• se-alum

  

  september63 wrote: I dont like the smell of John Wall repeating 8th grade either. Getting a bit bigger/stronger right before his freshman year? Shady at best.

  Definitely a common practice. There are small schools in Southern Ohio that do this.