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The Big South Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year is an annual award given to the Big South Conference's most outstanding player. The award was first given following the 1985–86 season, the first year the league conducted basketball competition.[lower-alpha 1]
Awarded for | the most outstanding basketball player in the Big South Conference. |
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Country | United States |
History | |
First award | 1986 |
Most recent | Drew Pember, UNC Asheville |
The most unique recipient of the Big South Player of the Year Award is Tony Dunkin. Dunkin, a 6'7" (2.01 m) small forward, played for the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers from 1989 to 1993 and won the award all four seasons.[1][2] He is the only NCAA Division I men's basketball player to ever earn four conference player of the year awards.[1][2][lower-alpha 2]
Coastal Carolina, which left the Big South for the Sun Belt Conference after the 2015–16 season,[7] has the most all-time awards with nine and individual winners with five. Among current members, Winthrop has the most awards with six. The only established Big South members without any winners are three of the six newest members of the conference—Presbyterian (joining in 2007), Gardner–Webb (2008), and Longwood (2012). Although Campbell's current tenure in the Big South dates only to 2011, it has three winners from its first conference tenure (1983–1994).
† | Co-Players of the Year |
* | Awarded a national player of the year award: UPI College Basketball Player of the Year (1954–55 to 1995–96) Naismith College Player of the Year (1968–69 to present) John R. Wooden Award (1976–77 to present) |
Player (X) | Denotes the number of times the player has been awarded the Big South Player of the Year award at that point |
School (year joined) | Winners | Years |
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Coastal Carolina (1983)[lower-alpha 3] | 9 | 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006 |
UNC Asheville (1984) | 6 | 1997, 1998, 1999, 2012, 2023, 2024 |
Winthrop (1983) | 6 | 1986, 2002, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022 |
High Point (1999) | 5 | 2004, 2007, 2008, 2014, 2016 |
Campbell (1983/2011)[lower-alpha 4] | 4 | 1987, 1989, 1994, 2019 |
Radford (1983) | 4 | 2000, 2009, 2010, 2020 |
Charleston Southern (1983) | 3 | 1995, 1996, 2015 |
Liberty (1991)[lower-alpha 5] | 1 | 2011 |
VMI (2003)[lower-alpha 6] | 1 | 2013 |
Gardner–Webb (2008) | 0 | — |
Hampton (2018)[lower-alpha 7] | 0 | — |
Longwood (2012) | 0 | — |
North Carolina A&T (2021)[lower-alpha 7] | 0 | — |
Presbyterian (2007) | 0 | — |
USC Upstate (2018) | 0 | — |
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