| Awarded for | the most outstanding NCAA Division I men's basketball player |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | The Sporting News magazine |
| History | |
| First award | 1943 |
| Most recent | Zach Edey, Purdue |
The Sporting News Men's College Basketball Player of the Year is an annual basketball award given to the best men's basketball player in NCAA Division I competition. The award was first given following the 1942–43 season and is presented by The Sporting News (known from 2002–2022 as Sporting News), an American–based sports magazine that was established in 1886.
No award winners were selected from 1947 to 1949 and from 1952 to 1957. Repeat winners of the The Sporting News Player of the Year award are rare; as of 2024, it has occurred only eight times. Of those eight repeat winners, only Oscar Robertson of Cincinnati and Bill Walton of UCLA have been named the player of the year three times.
UCLA and Duke have the most all-time awards, each with seven. North Carolina has the second-most awards with five.
Duke has the most individual recipients, with all seven of its awards going to different players. North Carolina and UCLA, with four recipients each, are second by that measure.
Key
| Player (X) | Denotes the number of times the player has been awarded the Player of the Year award at that point |
Winners
Winners by school
| School | Winners | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Duke | 7 | 1963, 1992, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2019 |
| UCLA | 7 | 1967, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1977 |
| North Carolina | 5 | 1978, 1983, 1984, 1998, 2008 |
| Cincinnati | 4 | 1958, 1959, 1960, 2000 |
| Indiana | 3 | 1976, 1993, 2013 |
| Ohio State | 3 | 1961, 1962, 2010 |
| Oklahoma | 3 | 1989, 2009, 2016 |
| Purdue | 3 | 1994, 2023, 2024 |
| DePaul | 2 | 1945, 1981 |
| Illinois | 2 | 1943, 2005 |
| Iowa | 2 | 2020, 2021 |
| Kentucky | 2 | 2012, 2022 |
| Princeton | 2 | 1964, 1965 |
| Texas | 2 | 2003, 2007 |
| Villanova | 2 | 1950, 2018 |
| Army | 1 | 1944 |
| Bradley | 1 | 1988 |
| Brigham Young | 1 | 2011 |
| Creighton | 1 | 2014 |
| Georgetown | 1 | 1985 |
| Georgia Tech | 1 | 1990 |
| Houston | 1 | 1968 |
| Indiana State | 1 | 1979 |
| Kansas | 1 | 2017 |
| Long Island | 1 | 1951 |
| Louisville | 1 | 1980 |
| LSU | 1 | 1970 |
| Massachusetts | 1 | 1996 |
| Michigan | 1 | 1966 |
| Michigan State | 1 | 1995 |
| Navy | 1 | 1987 |
| N.C. State | 1 | 1975 |
| Oklahoma State | 1 | 1946 |
| Saint Joseph's | 1 | 2004 |
| St. John's | 1 | 1986 |
| UNLV | 1 | 1991 |
| Virginia | 1 | 1982 |
| Wake Forest | 1 | 1997 |
| Wisconsin | 1 | 2015 |
Footnotes
- At the time of White's award, Long Island University consisted solely of what is now the institution's Brooklyn campus. In 2019, LIU merged the Brooklyn athletic program with the NCAA Division II program of its Post campus, creating a new D-I program that competes as the LIU Sharks. The Sharks inherited the men's basketball history of the Brooklyn campus.
- ^ Lew Alcindor changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 1971 after converting to Islam.
See also
References
- "Sporting News Player of the Year Winners". College Basketball. Sports–Reference.com. Retrieved 3 May 2010.
- Specific
- "Long Island University Announces Unification Into One LIU Division I Program" (Press release). LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds. October 3, 2018. Archived from the original on October 11, 2018. Retrieved October 11, 2018.
- "Welcome to the Shark Tank: Long Island University Chooses the Shark as New Mascot" (Press release). Long Island University. May 15, 2019. Retrieved May 16, 2019.
- Associated Press (4 June 1971). "Call Me 'Kareem' says Lew Alcindor" (Google News Archive). The Montreal Gazette. Retrieved 13 April 2010.
- "'Big O' Completes Bucks' Championship Run". NBA Encyclopedia Playoff Edition. National Basketball Association. 2010. Retrieved 13 April 2010.
- DeCourcy, Mike (March 10, 2020). "Iowa's Luka Garza is Sporting News' 2019-20 Player of the Year". Sporting News. Retrieved March 10, 2020.
- DeCourcy, Mike (March 9, 2021). "Iowa's Luka Garza is Sporting News' first repeat winner as Player of the Year since Michael Jordan". Sporting News. Retrieved March 9, 2021.
- DeCourcy, Mike (March 9, 2022). "Kentucky's Oscar Tshiebwe is Sporting News' College Basketball Player of the Year". Sporting News. Retrieved March 9, 2022.
- DeCourcy, Mike (March 8, 2023). "Purdue's Zach Edey is Sporting News' College Basketball Player of the Year". The Sporting News. Retrieved March 8, 2023.
- DeCourcy, Mike (March 13, 2024). "Sporting News College Basketball Player of the Year: Purdue's Zach Edey walking with giants as two-time winner". The Sporting News. Retrieved March 14, 2024.
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