Annual men's basketball award
Associated Press Men’s Player of the Year Awarded for the most outstanding NCAA men's basketball players in all levels of competition Country United States First award 1961 Most recent Zach Edey , Purdue Website Website
The Associated Press College Basketball Player of the Year award was established in 1961 to recognize the best men's college basketball player of the year, as voted upon by the Associated Press (AP).
The only three-time winner is Ralph Sampson of the Virginia Cavaliers program. Lew Alcindor , Zach Edey , Jerry Lucas , David Thompson , and Bill Walton each won the award twice.
Jerry Lucas won the first two awards in 1960 and 1961 David Thompson won the award in 1974 and 1975 Larry Bird won the 1979 award while leading Indiana State to an undefeated regular season Sean Elliott won in 1989 2007 winner Kevin Durant was the first freshman named Obi Toppin became Dayton ’s first winner in 2020 † Co-Players of the Year Player (X) Denotes the number of times the player has been awarded at that point
School Winners Years Duke 7 1963, 1992, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2006, 2019 UCLA 5 1967, 1969, 1972, 1973, 1977 Ohio State 4 1961, 1962, 1964, 2010 North Carolina 3 1984, 1998, 2008 Purdue 3 1994, 2023, 2024 Virginia 3 1981, 1982, 1983 Indiana 2 1976, 1993 Kentucky 2 2012, 2022 LSU 2 1970, 1991 Michigan 2 1966, 2013 NC State 2 1974, 1975 Arizona 1 1989 Bradley 1 1988 Brigham Young 1 2011 Cincinnati 1 2000 Creighton 1 2014 Dayton 1 2020 DePaul 1 1980 Georgetown 1 1985 Houston 1 1968 Indiana State 1 1979 Iowa 1 2021 Kansas 1 2017 La Salle 1 1990 Marquette 1 1978 Maryland 1 1995 Massachusetts 1 1996 Michigan State 1 2016 Navy 1 1987 Notre Dame 1 1971 Oklahoma 1 2009 Princeton 1 1965 Saint Joseph's 1 2004 St. John's 1 1986 Texas 1 2007 Utah 1 2005 Villanova 1 2018 Wake Forest 1 1997 Wisconsin 1 2015 Xavier 1 2003
a Lew Alcindor changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 1971 after converting to Islam .[1] [2]
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