Atlantic 10 Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year


The Atlantic 10 Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year is a basketball award given to the Atlantic 10 Conference's most outstanding player. The award was first given following the conference's inaugural 1976–77 season, when the conference was officially known as the Eastern Collegiate Basketball League but popularly known as the Eastern 8. David West of Xavier is the only player to have won the award three times. Four other players—James Bailey, Earl Belcher, Greg Jones and Steven Smith—have won the award twice. Three players have also won the award in the same season that they were named the Naismith College Player of the Year or received the John R. Wooden Award, the nation's two most prestigious men's college basketball awards.
As of 2020, Temple has the most all-time winners with 10, but the Owls left for the American Athletic Conference in July 2013. Among schools remaining in the conference beyond 2013, Saint Joseph's and UMass have the most winners, with five each. There have been three ties in the award's history. Three current member schools have had no winners—Fordham, George Mason, and VCU. However, of these schools, only Fordham was an A-10 member before 2012.

Key

Winners

SeasonPlayerSchoolPositionClass
1976–77DuquesnePG
1977–78RutgersF / C
1978–79 RutgersF / C
1979–80F
1980–81 F
1981–82West VirginiaPG
1982–83†RutgersC
1982–83† West VirginiaPG
1983–84TempleSG
1984–85TempleC
1985–86Saint Joseph'sSF / SG
1986–87TempleG
1987–88TemplePF
1988–89TempleSG
1989–90Rhode IslandC
1990–91RutgersPF
1991–92UMassPF / C
1992–93TemplePG / SG
1993–94TempleSG
1994–95UMassF
1995–96*UMassC
1996–97TempleC
1997–98Rhode IslandPG / SG
1998–99George WashingtonPG
1999–00TemplePG
2000–01XavierPF
2001–02 XavierPF
2002–03 XavierPF
2003–04*Saint Joseph'sPG
2004–05†Saint Joseph'sSG
2004–05†La SalleSF
2005–06 La SalleSF
2006–07UMassPF
2007–08UMassSF / SG
2008–09Saint Joseph'sPF / C
2009–10RichmondPG
2010–11XavierPG
2011–12PF
2012–13TempleSG
2013–14Saint LouisSG
2014–15DavidsonPG
2015–16Saint Joseph'sF
2016–17RichmondF / C
2017–18†PG
2017–18†DavidsonSF
2018–19DavidsonG
2019–20*DaytonF

Winners by school

Footnotes