O’Bannon, Stoudamire All-America Smith, Stackhouse, Respert Complete Ap All-Star Squad

Two Pac-10 seniors - Ed O’Bannon of UCLA and Damon Stoudamire of Arizona - and two sophomores from the Atlantic Coast Conference - Maryland’s Joe Smith and Jerry Stackhouse of North Carolina - joined Shawn Respert of Michigan State on The Associated Press’ All-America men’s basketball team Tuesday.

Smith, a 6-foot-10 center, was the leading vote-getter, being named on all but four first-team ballots from the 66-member national panel that selects the weekly poll. He finished with 313 points in the 5-3-1 voting, two more than O’Bannon.

The ACC Player of the Year, Smith averaged 20.9 points and 10.4 rebounds and shot 58 percent from the field as the Terrapins finished in a four-way tie for first place in the conference and earned a third seed in the NCAA Tournament.

O’Bannon, who was the Pac-10’s co-player of the year with Stoudamire, averaged 20.7 points and 8.2 rebounds for the Bruins, the No. 1 team in the final regular-season poll and a No. 1 seed. The 6-8 forward, named to 60 first-team ballots, shot 54 percent from the field, including 47 percent from 3-point range.

Respert, a 6-3 guard who was the Big Ten player of the year, averaged 25.5 points. Stoudamire led the Pac10 in scoring (23.0) and assists (7.4). Stackhouse, a 6-6 forward, averaged 19.4 points and 8.3 rebounds.

Randolph Childress of Wake Forest, MVP of the ACC tournament, was five points behind Stackhouse in the voting and was joined on the second team by Corliss Williamson of Arkansas, Villanova’s Kerry Kittles, Rasheed Wallace of North Carolina and Lou Roe of Massachusetts.

The third team was Bryant Reeves of Oklahoma State, Tim Duncan of Wake Forest, Ray Allen of Connecticut, Kurt Thomas of Texas Christian and Lawrence Moten of Syracuse.