West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year


The West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year is a basketball award given to the most outstanding men's basketball player in the West Coast Conference. The award was first given following the conference's inaugural 1952–53 season, when it was known as the California Basketball Association. The only season in which the award was not presented was the conference's second season of 1953–54. There have been four ties in the award's history, most recently in 2006–07 between Sean Denison of Santa Clara and Derek Raivio of Gonzaga. There have also been 13 repeat winners, but only one—Bill Cartwright of San Francisco—has been Player of the Year three times.
Four schools in the West Coast Conference have dominated the total awards distribution. Before 2000, Pepperdine, San Francisco and Santa Clara had earned the bulk of the awards. Since then, Gonzaga has claimed a near-monopoly on it. In the 17 seasons from 2000–01 to the present, coinciding with the Bulldogs' rise to national prominence, Gonzaga players have won the award outright 13 times and shared the award once. Gonzaga now claims the most winners with 17, while each of the three other schools are tied for the second most with 11 winners apiece. The next closest school, Saint Mary's, has eight. One current member has yet to have a winner.

Key

Winners

SeasonPlayerSchoolPositionClassReference
1952–53Santa ClaraPF
1953–54———
1954–55 Santa ClaraPF
1955–56 *San FranciscoC
1956–57San FranciscoPF
1957–58 † San FranciscoPF
1957–58 †PacificPF
1958–59 †Saint Mary'sPF
1958–59 † PacificPF
1959–60Loyola MarymountSG/PG
1960–61Saint Mary'sPF
1961–62 †PepperdineSF/SG
1961–62 †Saint Mary'sG
1962–63 Saint Mary'sG
1963–64San FranciscoC
1964–65 San FranciscoC
1965–66PacificF
1966–67 PacificF
1967–68Loyola MarymountSG
1968–69Santa ClaraC
1969–70 Santa ClaraC
1970–71PacificC/PF
1971–72Santa ClaraC
1972–73PepperdinePG
1973–74SeattleSG
1974–75UNLVG
1975–76PepperdinePF
1976–77San FranciscoC
1977–78 San FranciscoC
1978–79 San FranciscoC
1979–80Santa ClaraSF
1980–81San FranciscoSG
1981–82 San FranciscoSG
1982–83 †PepperdineC
1982–83 †PepperdineG
1983–84GonzagaPG
1984–85PepperdineSF/SG
1985–86 PepperdineSF/SG
1986–87San DiegoC
1987–88PepperdinePF
1988–89Loyola MarymountPF
1989–90Loyola MarymountSG
1990–91PepperdineSG
1991–92 PepperdineSG
1992–93PepperdineSF
1993–94GonzagaPF
1994–95Santa ClaraPG
1995–96 Santa ClaraPG
1996–97Santa ClaraG
1997–98GonzagaPF
1998–99Saint Mary'sPF
1999–00San FranciscoC
2000–01GonzagaPF
2001–02GonzagaPG
2002–03GonzagaPG
2003–04 GonzagaPG
2004–05GonzagaC
2005–06GonzagaSF
2006–07 †Santa ClaraF
2006–07 †GonzagaPG/SG
2007–08GonzagaPG
2008–09Santa ClaraC
2009–10GonzagaSG
2010–11Saint Mary'sPG
2011–12Saint Mary'sPG
2012–13GonzagaC
2013–14BYUSG
2014–15GonzagaPG
2015–16BYUPG
2016–17GonzagaPG
2017–18Saint Mary'sC
2018–19GonzagaPF
2019–20GonzagaPF

Winners by school

Footnotes