All-Star Teams for Each Power Conference

Sterling Gibbs eliminated Villanova with this last second shot and never skipped a beat in helping Seton Hall, and the Big East, provide big surprises this season.

The seven high major all-conference teams are listed below, and the Big East’s hot start has it in a better position to stay on this list with the Football Power Five as the American Athletic has lost Louisville to the ACC, fallen behind two mid-major conferences in the rations at www.kenpom.com, and lost their potential top player in Markus Kennedy of SMU.

Gibbs has hit 54 percent of his three-pointers and is ranked in virtually every stat kept by www.kenpom.com–steals, assists, overall shooting, fouls drawn, low turnovers. He scored 40 points against a good Illinois State team that only allowed 66 points to the fast-paced VCU Rams. He is also the only player I can find who has had an overall offensive rating of higher than 100 from www.kenpom.com. He currently has the top Value Add rating in the country at 11.82.

Most of the high major all-conference teams are very balanced with the five players coming from five different teams. The only two exceptions are Cincinnati, which has the two big men on the American Athletic team, and Kentucky just to the South with three of the five All-SEC players. 

Conf	Pos	Early All-Conference	Team	Value Add	Rnk
ACC	PG	22 Jerian Grant	Notre Dame	8.38	32
ACC	SG	2 Quinn Cook	Duke	9.44	17
ACC	SF	10 Sheldon McClellan	Miami FL	8.89	26
ACC	PF	13 Anthony Gill	Virginia	7.84	53
ACC	C	15 Jahlil Okafor	Duke	7.09	72
Amer	PG	11 Ryan Boatright	Connecticut	6.30	103
Amer	PG	21 B.J. Tyson	East Carolina	5.17	196
Amer	SG	4 Corey Allen	South Florida	5.41	172
Amer	PF	11 Gary Clark	Cincinnati	6.17	109
Amer	C	2 Octavius Ellis	Cincinnati	6.59	92
B10	PG	3 Shannon Scott	Ohio St.	8.99	23
B10	PG	20 Travis Trice	Michigan St.	8.68	28
B10	SG	2 D.J. Newbill	Penn St.	8.66	29
B10	SF	24 Rayvonte Rice	Illinois	11.61	3
B10	C	44 Frank Kaminsky	Wisconsin	9.01	22
B12	PG	5 Kyan Anderson	TCU	6.23	106
B12	SG	13 Phil Forte	Oklahoma St.	6.80	83
B12	SF	0 Royce O’Neale	Baylor	6.19	108
B12	PF	34 Perry Ellis	Kansas	8.30	35
B12	C	52 Myles Turner	Texas	8.27	36
BE	PG	4 D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera	Georgetown	6.11	111
BE	SG	4 Sterling Gibbs	Seton Hall	11.82	1
BE	SF	23 LaDontae Henton	Providence	8.93	25
BE	PF	15 Sir’Dominic Pointer	St. John’s	9.47	16
BE	PF	40 Matt Stainbrook	Xavier	8.09	42
P12	PG	55 Delon Wright	Utah	9.44	18
P12	SF	23 Rondae Hollis-Jefferson	Arizona	7.34	62
P12	SF	11 Mike Anderson	Washington	6.37	101
P12	PF	4 Stefan Nastic	Stanford	6.11	112
P12	C	40 Josh Scott	Colorado	8.05	43
SEC	PG	4 Wade Baldwin	Vanderbilt	9.11	21
SEC	SG	1 Devin Booker	Kentucky	10.24	10
SEC	SF	20 Levi Randolph	Alabama	11.62	2
SEC	PF	12 Karl-Anthony Towns	Kentucky	8.03	45
SEC	C	15 Willie Cauley-Stein	Kentucky	9.13	20