Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year


The Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year is a basketball award given to the Big Ten Conference's most outstanding player. The award was first given following the 1984–85 season. Only two players have won the award multiple times: Jim Jackson of Ohio State and Mateen Cleaves of Michigan State. Eight players who won the Big Ten Player of the Year award were also named the national player of the year by one or more major voting bodies: Jim Jackson, Calbert Cheaney of Indiana, Glenn Robinson of Purdue, Evan Turner of Ohio State, Trey Burke of Michigan 2013, Draymond Green of Michigan State, Frank Kaminsky of Wisconsin, and Denzel Valentine of Michigan State.
Michigan State has the record for the most winners with nine. Of current Big Ten Conference members, five schools have never had a winner: Maryland, Nebraska, Northwestern, Penn State, and Rutgers. Of these, only Northwestern was in the conference since the inception of this award—Penn State joined the Big Ten in 1991, Nebraska joined in 2011, followed by Maryland and Rutgers in 2014.

Key

†Co-Players of the Year
*Awarded a national Player of the Year award:
Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year
UPI College Basketball Player of the Year
Naismith College Player of the Year
John R. Wooden Award
Associated Press College Basketball Player of the Year
NABC Player of the Year
Player Denotes the number of times the player has been awarded the Big Ten Player of the Year award at that point

Winners

Winners by school

Footnotes