Parade announced the 2011 All-America Basketball Teams this week.

Austin Rivers (Duke), Bradley Beal (Florida), Anthony Davis (Kentucky), Chase Fischer (Wake Forest), Adonis Thomas (Memphis), Rodney Cooper (Alabama), Dantley Walker (UNLV), DJ Gardner (Mississippi State), Trevor Lacey (Undecided) and Wayne Blackshear (Louisville) were named to the First Team.

On the Second Team were D'Angelo Harrison (St. John's), Adam Smith (UNC-Wilmington), Troy Wroten (Washington), Chane Behanan (Louisville), Cody Zeller (Indiana), Trey Burke (Michigan), Kyle Caudill (Boston College), Jahil Carson (Arizona State), LeBryan Nash (Oklahoma State) and Angelo Chol (Arizona).

Receiving Third Team honors were Wesley Saunders (Harvard), Shelby Moats (Vanderbilt), Devonta Abron (Arkansas), Jarvis Threatt (Delaware), Amir Williams (Ohio State), Jordan Baker (Pepperdine), Branden Dawson (Michigan State), P.J. Hairston (North Carolina), James McAdoo (North Carolina) and Xavier Ford (Buffalo).

The Fourth Team was comprised of Julien Lewis (Texas), Jake White (Wichita State), Johnny O'Bryant (LSU), Tanner Wozniak (FIU), Myck Kabongo (Texas), Reese Morgan (Cal Poly), Michael Gilchrist (Kentucky), Colun Gruber (Northern Arizona), Ryan Spangler (Gonzaga) and Marquis Teague (Kentucky).

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In three games against Rick Pitino’s Louisville Cardinals, Kemba Walker was held below his season averages in field-goal shooting (34.0 percent), three-point shooting (18.7 percent) and scoring (18.3 points per game).

The secret to their success, Pitino says, was keeping him from his comfort zone.

“We start with the theory that if you let a great guard get to the middle of the floor, you're going to have trouble,” Pitino said. “So the first thing we did was try to keep him out of the middle as much as possible.”

It's almost inevitable that Walker will make plays. But Pitino said the Cards concentrated on making him work for everything.

“We know we're not going to stop him to a certain degree, although we had success against him,” Pitino said. “We just want him to shoot a low percentage. So we trap him out of our zone, we trap him on pick and rolls, we switch and then come back and trap him but don't let him roam free in the middle.”

Louisville's Rick Pitino is making $7.5 million this season, according to a USA TODAY analysis of contracts and other compensation documents. dwarfing the $85,000 of Northern Colorado's B.J. Hill.

Pitino's compensation — nearly 90 times more than Hill's — is boosted by a $3.6 million bonus for completing three years of his contract.

Among the 33 coaches whose pay USA TODAY has tracked the last two seasons, the average pay was up 11% to $1.7 million, not including bonuses averaging up to $390,000.

Kentucky's John Calipari will make $3.9 million this year, with another $650,000 in tournament bonus money available. Virginia Commonwealth's Shaka Smart will make $424,000, with about $257,000 in possible tournament bonuses.

Louisville coach Rick Pitino is unconcered with seeding heading into the Cardinals' first round matchup with Morehead State.

"I could care less about seedings, I could care less about any of that," Pitino said Monday during a news conference. "I know a lot more about basketball than the people in that (NCAA tournament Selection Committee) room and my job is to coach the Xs and Os of the game.

"I've had to answer stupid e-mails about how could Syracuse be ranked ahead of us, it's taking my time, and getting under my skin, so I don't care."

Pitino is more concerned about Morehead State power forward Kenneth Faried, who leads the nation in rebounding at 14.5 per game.

"He rebounds more than our two centers and our power forward combined, so how difficult is that?" Pitino said. "It's a very difficult assignment for any team, not only us, because our Achilles' heel has been rebounding, now we've got the greatest rebounder in the history of the game to go against.

"He's a Dennis Rodman," Pitino said. "He has unbelievable passion for rebounding, great low-post defensive player. ... He has, technique wise, all the things you want to see in a great rebounder. He knows how to go baseline-out. He knows how to change position to come out of his test tube. He knows how to get position from a guy's back, and he's relentless. The only time he rests on the court is on a free throw and on an underneath out-of-bounds play he'll cop 5 seconds.”

Kemba Walker led Connecticut to five victories in five consecutive nights to win the 2011 Big East Tournament.

Walker led all tournament participants in points, steals, minutes and FIC. Walker played in 190 of UConn's available 205 minutes.

Joining Walker on the Big East All-Tournament Team was teammate Jeremy Lamb, Peyton Siva and Preston Knowles (Louisville), Rick Jackson (Syracuse) and Scott Martin (Notre Dame).

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Ohio State is the No. 1 overall seed in the 2011 NCAA Tournament and will be placed in the East Region.

Joining the Buckeyes No. 1 seeds is Kansas in the Midwest, Pittsburgh in the Southeast and Duke in the West.

Pitt is the only No. 1 seed to not win their conference tournament, losing to eventual champion Connecticut in the quarterfinals.

San Diego State, North Carolina, Notre Dame and Florida are the No. 2 seeds, while Syracuse, Purdue, Connecticut and BYU are the No. 3 seeds. Kentucky, Louisville, Texas and Wisconsin are the No. 4 seeds.

Kansas and Duke were also No. 1 seeds in the 2010 NCAA Tournament, while Ohio State was a No. 2 and Pitt was a No. 3.

The Final Four will be held in Houston on April 2nd and 4th.

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Louisville has won 23 regular-season games — a dozen in Big East play — and earned a double-bye in the Big East tournament. All without a single NBA prospect on the roster.

“It’s not even close,” assistant coach Steve Masiello said of the job Pitino has done with this group. “This is the best job I’ve ever seen him do.”

Masiello points to the ability to change and adapt — much like Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski has done with his Olympic experience.

This team is getting up and down the court quicker, playing more man-to-man defense and utilizing far more pick-and-rolls.

“He’s done a great job adapting to the players instead of the players adapting to him,” Masiello said.

Duke’s basketball program generated $26.67 million in revenue in 2009-10, according to an analysis of financial data for the 2009-2010 academic year by Forbes.

Louisville came in second with $25.89 million and the University of North Carolina’s $20.55 million was good enough for third place.

Duke, Louisville, and North Carolina are the only schools that generated over $20 million and earned at least 100% more men’s basketball revenue relative to the national average.

Arizona (19.29 m), Syracuse (18.3 m), Wisconsin (17.67 m), Kentucky (16.78 m), Indiana (16.57 m), Ohio State (16.19 m), and Michigan State (16.14 m) rounded out the top ten.

Ben Hansbrough of Notre Dame has been named Big East Player of the Year.

Rick Jackson of Syracuse won Defensive Player of the Year, DePaul's Cleveland Melvin won Rookie of the Year and Dwight Hardy of St. John's won Most Improved Player honors.

Hansbrough was joined on the All-Big East First Team by Marshon Brooks (Providence), Austin Freeman (Georgetown), Ashton Gibbs (Pitt), Dwight Hardy (St. John's) and Kemba Walker (Connecticut).

On the All-Big East Second Team are Corey Fisher (Villanova), Rick Jackson (Syracuse), Darius Johnson-Odom (Marquette), Preston Knowles (Louisville) and Brad Wanamaker (Pitt).

The All-Rookie Team is comprised of Jeremy Lamb (Connecticut), Gilvydas Biruta (Rutgers), Sean Kilpatrick (Cincinnati), Melvin, Shabazz Napier (Connecticut) and Brandon Young (DePaul).

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West Virginia defeated No. 11 Louisville 72-70 on Saturday in Morgantown.

Kevin Jones had a career-high 25 points and 16 rebounds and Truck Bryant sank two free throws with one second left to lift the Mountaineers to a win in their regular-season finale.

"I just told Truck to take us home," Jones said of Bryant's winning free throws. "I'll put him at the line at clutch situations anytime. I know he'll make them."

West Virginia overcame a five-point deficit in the final 1:19 to clinch a first-round bye and will take a three-game winning streak into the Big East Tournament.