Hail to the Victor: Outstanding Oladipo Has Been Indiana's Top Player

There is no doubt that Indiana's Victor Oladipo has blossomed into an All-American, joining Creighton's Doug McDermott and Michigan's Trey Burke as one of the nation's premier three players after none of them ranked among the top 100 recruits coming out of high school. Excelling in all phases of the game, Oladipo has rendered the recruiting gurus virtually useless by becoming the Hoosiers' MVP this season over more highly-publicized Cody Zeller.

The only question is whether Oladipo and Zeller will become the 12th different set of teammates to be named NCAA consensus first-team All-Americans. IU had such a dynamic duo in 1975-76 when Kent Benson and Scott May helped power the nation's last undefeated squad. Father Henry Bibby (UCLA '72) and son Mike Bibby (Arizona '98) are each involved in the following chronological list of the first 11 different sets of teammates named NCAA consensus first-team All-Americans in the same season a total of 14 times since the start of the NCAA Tournament in 1939: