Porter ties for most votes on AP All-America first team

Otto Porter of Georgetown tied as the leading vote-getter on the AP All-America first team for basketball.

Porter, a 2011 graduate of Scott County Central High School, and Trey Burke of Michigan both received 62 first-team votes and 319 points from the same 65-member national media panel that selects the weekly Top 25. Voting was on a 5-3-1 basis and was completed before the NCAA tournament.

Creighton's Doug McDermott repeated on the first first team, while Victor Oladipo of Indiana and Kelly Olynyk of Gonzaga were the other players selected.

Oladipo got 58 first-team votes and 306 points. McDermott had 44 first-team votes and 279 points, one more than Olynyk's total points. The Gonzaga junior got 47 first-team votes.

Porter, a 6-8 sophomore, is a smooth, solid forward whose coach describes his efforts this way: "Otto was Otto."

"I've defined it all year -- probably without saying it -- in that he is a selfless player, in that all of his actions, all of his thoughts are on how can he help our team win," Hoyas coach John Thompson III said. "And because he's so talented, with such God-given ability, because he is the worker that he is, because he is as coachable as he is, he has been able to succeed on many different fronts. Not just scoring. I don't want to say he's a complete basketball player -- he's not finished -- but he excels at many different aspects of the game, many of which show up in the stat sheet, many of which don't."

What does show up on Porter's stat line is 16.3 points and 7.4 rebounds per game while shooting 42.7 percent from behind the 3-point line. He is Georgetown's sixth All-America and first since Allen Iverson in 1996.

Freshman guard Marcus Smart of Oklahoma State got 11 first-team votes and 190 points and was joined on the second team by senior Mason Plumlee of Duke, sophomores Cody Zeller of Indiana and Shane Larkin of Miami and freshman Ben McLemore of Kansas.

The third team was seniors Jeff Withey of Kansas, Erick Green of Virginia Tech and Nate Wolters of South Dakota State and juniors DeShaun Thomas of Ohio State and Russ Smith of Louisville.

McDermott, Burke, Zeller and Thomas were on the six-man preseason All-America team along with Isaiah Canaan of Murray State and C.J. McCollum of Lehigh.