Seimone Augustus plays with dazzling skill, a crowd-pleasing flair and, according to her coach, plenty of smarts. With that combination, it’s no wonder the LSU standout was a unanimous All-American.

Augustus led the Associated Press women’s basketball All-America team, which was announced Wednesday. She was the only player picked for the first team by all 45 members of the national media panel that also votes in the weekly AP poll.

“People marvel at her mid-range jumper. I marvel at the fact she’s always wide open when the opposition has practiced all week (to stop her),” Tigers coach Pokey Chatman said. “That’s because she’s cerebral. She understands what cuts to make and when to pick up the basketball.”

Augustus, a 6-foot-1 junior, received the maximum 225 points in the voting and was joined on the first team by Kansas State’s Kendra Wecker (192), Duke’s Monique Currie (180), Ohio State’s Jessica Davenport (163) and TCU’s Sandora Irvin (153). Wecker received 36 first-team votes, Currie 29, Davenport 22 and Irvin 20.

Augustus and Wecker were third-team selections each of the past two years and both were on the preseason All-America team.

Augustus averaged 20.1 points and 4.5 rebounds while shooting 55.4 percent in the regular season.

Wecker has been such a key figure in the women’s basketball resurgence at Kansas State that her jersey number already has been retired. The 5-11 senior, the Big 12 Conference’s career scoring leader, averaged 20.6 points and 10.1 rebounds this season.