Trae Young keeps OU all-American trend going

OU's Trae Young goes to the basket between Iowa State's Jeff Beverly (55) and Donovan Jackson (4) on March 2. (Photo by Bryan Terry)Trae Young was named first-team all-American on Tuesday by the National Association of Basketball Coaches. That’s no small feat.

Young, a freshman who this week declared for the NBA Draft, is just the seventh Sooner since the 1940s to make first-team all-American.

First-team all-American is hard to achieve. Only five spots available. Players as great as Big Country and Harvey Grant didn’t make first-team all-American (both were second team as seniors).

In the early days of college basketball, the premier all-American team, selected by the Helms Foundation, had 10…