The ASUN Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year is an annual award given to the ASUN Conference's most outstanding player. The award was first given following the 1978–79 season, the first year of the ASUN's existence, when it was known as the Trans America Athletic Conference (TAAC). Only two players have won the award three times: Willie Jackson of Centenary (1982–1984) and Darius McGhee of Liberty (2021–2023).
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Centenary has the most all-time winners with six, but left the conference in 2000, when the league was still known as the TAAC. There has been only one tie in the award's history, which occurred in 1997–98 between Mark Jones of UCF and Sedric Webber of Charleston. Among the 12 current ASUN members, only four have had a winner: Eastern Kentucky, Florida Gulf Coast, Lipscomb, and North Florida.
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School (year joined) |
Winners |
Years |
Centenary (1978)[lower-alpha 1] |
6 |
1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1990, 1991 |
Charleston (1992)[lower-alpha 2] |
4 |
1994, 1996, 1997, 1998† |
Georgia Southern (1980)[lower-alpha 3] |
4 |
1987, 1988, 1989, 1992 |
Liberty (2018)[lower-alpha 4] |
4 |
2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 |
Mercer (1978)[lower-alpha 5] |
4 |
1981, 1985, 1993, 2014 |
East Tennessee State (2005)[lower-alpha 5] |
3 |
2006, 2007, 2011 |
Belmont (2001)[lower-alpha 6] |
2 |
2003, 2009 |
Florida Gulf Coast (2007) |
2 |
2013, 2018 |
Georgia State (1984)[lower-alpha 7] |
2 |
2001, 2002 |
Lipscomb (2007) |
2 |
2010, 2019 |
North Florida (2005) |
2 |
2016, 2017 |
Troy (1997)[lower-alpha 8] |
2 |
2000, 2004 |
USC Upstate (2007)[lower-alpha 9] |
2 |
2012, 2015 |
Eastern Kentucky (2021) |
1 |
2024 |
Little Rock (1980)[lower-alpha 10] |
1 |
1986 |
UCF (1992)[lower-alpha 11] |
1 |
1998† |
Florida Atlantic (1993)[lower-alpha 12] |
1 |
2005 |
Gardner–Webb (2002)[lower-alpha 13] |
1 |
2008 |
Louisiana–Monroe (1978)[lower-alpha 14] |
1 |
1979 |
Austin Peay (2022) |
0 |
— |
Bellarmine (2020) |
0 |
— |
Campbell (1994)[lower-alpha 15] |
0 |
— |
Central Arkansas (2021) |
0 |
— |
Jacksonville (1997) |
0 |
— |
Jacksonville State (1995, 2021)[lower-alpha 16] |
0 |
— |
Kennesaw State (2005)[lower-alpha 17] |
0 |
— |
NJIT (2015)[lower-alpha 18] |
0 |
— |
North Alabama (2018) |
0 |
— |
Northern Kentucky (2012)[lower-alpha 19] |
0 |
— |
Oklahoma City (1978)[lower-alpha 20] |
0 |
— |
Queens (2022) |
0 |
— |
Stetson (1985) |
0 |
— |
West Georgia (2024) |
0 |
— |
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Campbell University left in 2011 to rejoin its pre-1994 home of the Big South Conference, and moved to the CAA in 2023.
Oklahoma City University was a charter TAAC member in 1978, but was only a member in the first season of 1978–79. The Chiefs, now the Stars, left to become a charter member of the Midwestern City Conference (now the Horizon League). Oklahoma City left the NCAA altogether in 1985, and is now a member of the NAIA Sooner Athletic Conference.
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"All-Atlantic Sun". The Tennessean. Nashville, Tennessee. March 4, 2020. p. B3. Retrieved January 13, 2024 – via Newspapers.com.