KEVIN KLAUS/Arizona Daily Wildcat Gardner attempts a shot last month against California in the Pac-10 Tournament semifinals. The junior guard received his third All-America nod of the season yesterday when Basketball America named him to its second team.

Gardner named to Basketball America All-America team

Arizona junior guard Jason Gardner was awarded second-team All-America honors by Basketball America yesterday.

The award was nothing new for Gardner, who has already been named a third-team Associated Press All-American and a second-team CNNSI.com All-American this season.

The 5-foot-10 Indianapolis native averaged 20.4 points, 4.6 assists and 2.9 rebounds per game this season in 38.2 minutes per game. Gardner scored the most points of any Pac-10 player while being the only league player to rank in the top 10 in points, assists and steals.

Gardner also ranks in the Arizona career top 10 in points (1,512), 3-pointers (252), assists (464) and steals (164).

More hardware for Walton

A day after Sporting News honored Luke Walton as a second team All-American, Basketball News honored not just Walton but freshman guard Salim Stoudamire as well.

Walton was named to Basketball News' All-America second team, while Stoudamire was chosen as a second-team All-Freshman.

Stoudamire, a 6-foot-1 guard from Portland, Ore., averaged 12.8 points, 2.1 rebounds and 1.1 assists in 34 games. In Stoudamire's first season, he proved to be a versatile weapon in a conference loaded with talent at the guard position.

Stoudamire led the conference in free-throw shooting (.904) and ranked third in 3-point field goal percentage (.453). During the season, Stoudamire hit 73 3-pointers, good enough for ninth on Arizona's single-season 3-point field goals list. His .453 percentage from behind the arc is the school's second-highest career percentage.

Stoudamire scored in double figures in 22 games this season, including a career-high 29 points against Southern California in the Pac-10 Tournament championship game on March 9. The Pacific 10 Conference Freshman of the Year scored 423 points, which is the seventh-highest freshman total in Arizona history.

For Walton, yesterday's honor is one of many postseason awards the junior has received. Walton also earned All-America acknowledgements from the John R. Wooden Award, Basketball Times (third team), The Sporting News (second team) and collegehoopsinsider.com.

Walton averaged 15.7 points, 7.3 rebounds and a Pac-10 Conference-leading 6.3 assists in 31 games this season and was named the Pac-10 Tournament Most Outstanding Player.

Adams to play in McDonald's All-American game

Future Arizona basketball player Hassan Adams will suit up for the West squad tonight in the McDonald's All-American game at 6 p.m. in Madison Square Garden. The game will be televised on ESPN.

Adams, out of Westchester High School in Los Angeles, was selected out of 2,500 high school basketball players across the country to compete in the game. Adams is one of 24 players on the team.