Miner Selected First-Team All-American by AP

USC junior Harold Miner was named a first team All-American Monday by the Associated Press, and UCLA’s Don MacLean was named to the second team.

Miner, a guard who averaged 26.7 points, was selected on 52 first-team votes, and like Shaquille O’Neal of Louisiana State, was not voted below second team.

“This honor is consistent with his performance all year,” Trojan Coach George Raveling said. “He’s done so much for this program.”

Miner joined O’Neal, Duke’s Christian Laettner, Georgetown’s Alonzo Mourning and Ohio State’s Jimmy Jackson on the first team.

Laettner, a unanimous choice, and Mourning were the only seniors selected. O’Neal and Jackson are juniors.

Laettner, second-team selection as a junior and the most valuable player of last season’s Final Four, was named to the first team on 63 ballots by the nationwide poll of writers who select the weekly top 25.

Maryland guard Walt Williams led the second team and was joined in the backcourt by Missouri’s Anthony Peeler. The frontcourt was MacLean, Byron Houston of Oklahoma State and Stanford’s Adam Keefe.