Racial Profiling: Creighton's Doug McDermott is Latest Great White Hope

Similar to a deceptive West Wing, sometimes you know the numbers and are just too embarrassed to release them with detailed explanation. But according to a politically-direct UCF study several years ago, fewer than 1/3 of NCAA Division I players are white. There is some credence to refraining from judging a book by its cover, but the last time a majority of the NCAA consensus All-American first-team selections were white was 1969-70 (LSU's Pete Maravich, Purdue's Rick Mount and Kentucky's Dan Issel).

Creighton's Doug McDermott, perhaps en route to becoming only the second three-time first-team All-American in the last quarter century, clearly is the latest "Great White Hope." Non-whites accounted for more than 83% of the NCAA consensus All-American first- and second-selections since the shot clock was introduced nationwide in 1985-86.

The last all-white NCAA consensus first-team All-American squad was in 1953-54. McDermott is only the sixth white player in the last 30 seasons to emerge as a multiple-year consensus first-team All-American. Following is an alphabetical list of only 20 different white players in that time span named as an NCAA consensus first-team All-American:

White First-Team All-American	Pos.	School	All-American Season(s)
Steve Alford	G	Indiana	1985-86 and 1986-87
Andrew Bogut	C	Utah	2004-05
Nick Collison	F	Kansas	2002-03
Dan Dickau	G	Gonzaga	2001-02
Danny Ferry	F	Duke	1988-89
Jimmer Fredette	G	Brigham Young	2010-11
Tyler Hansbrough	F-C	North Carolina	2006-07 through 2008-09
Bobby Hurley	G	Duke	1992-93
Casey Jacobsen	F-G	Stanford	2000-01
Christian Laettner	F-C	Duke	1991-92
Raef LaFrentz	F-C	Kansas	1996-97 and 1997-98
Kevin Love	C	UCLA	2007-08
Doug McDermott	F	Creighton	2011-12 and 2012-13
Chris Mihm	C	Texas	1999-2000
Adam Morrison	F	Gonzaga	2005-06
Chris Mullin	G	St. John's	1984-85
Troy Murphy	F	Notre Dame	1999-2000 and 2000-01
Kelly Olynyk	C	Gonzaga	2012-13
J.J. Redick	G	Duke	2004-05 and 2005-06
Keith Van Horn	F	Utah	1996-97