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Ohio Valley Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year

Ohio Valley Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year

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The Ohio Valley Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year is an annual award given to the Ohio Valley Conference's (OVC) most outstanding player. The award was first given following the 1962–63 season.

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Fifteen players in OVC history have claimed more than one player of the year award, the most recent of whom was Terry Taylor in 2020 and 2021. Among the repeat winners, only one—Clem Haskins of Western Kentucky—has been a three-time player of the year. Haskins achieved the feat from 1965 through 1967.

Both of the schools with the most awards left the OVC in 2022. Murray State, which has dominated the award's selection, with its players having received the award 21 times (which at the Racers' departure was equal to the total of the next three programs on the list), joined the Missouri Valley Conference. Second-place Austin Peay, with eight awards, joined the ASUN Conference. Among schools remaining in the OVC after 2022, Morehead State has the most awards with eight. Four current OVC members have yet to produce a winner, but three (Lindenwood, Little Rock, Southern Indiana) played their first OVC seasons in 2022–23; the only pre-2022 member without a winner is SIU Edwardsville. The only former OVC school who was a pre-2022 member at one point is East Tennessee State. Western Illinois is playing its first OVC season in 2023–24.

Three ties have occurred for player of the year: 1976, 1983 and 2013. No OVC Men's Basketball Player of the Year has ever been selected as any national player of the year.

Key

† Co-Players of the Year
* Awarded a national player of the year award:
Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year (1904–05 to 1978–79)
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 OVC Player of the Year award at that point

Winners

Harold Sergent, Morehead State, 1963
Clem Haskins, Western Kentucky, 1965 through 1967
Wayne Chapman, Western Kentucky, 1968
Jim McDaniels, Western Kentucky, 1970 and 1971
Fly Williams, Austin Peay, 1974
Otis Howard, Austin Peay, 1977 and 1978
Marcus Brown, Murray State, 1995 and 1996
De'Teri Mayes, Murray State, 1998
Trenton Hassell, Austin Peay, 2001
Henry Domercant, Eastern Illinois, 2002
Lester Hudson, UT Martin, 2008 and 2009
Kenneth Faried, Morehead State, 2010 and 2011
Isaiah Canaan, Murray State, 2012 and 2013
Ian Clark, Belmont, 2013
J. J. Mann, Belmont, 2014
Cameron Payne, Murray State, 2015
Ja Morant, Murray State, 2019
Terry Taylor, Austin Peay, 2020 and 2021
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Winners by school

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  1. Austin Peay State University, Belmont University, and Murray State University left the OVC in 2022. Peay joined the ASUN Conference, and Belmont and Murray State joined the Missouri Valley Conference.
  2. Western Kentucky University left in 1982 to join the Sun Belt Conference, and is now in Conference USA.
  3. Middle Tennessee State University left in 2000 to join the Sun Belt Conference, and is now in C-USA.
  4. The University of Akron left in 1987 to become an Independent. The Zips are now in the Mid-American Conference.
  5. Eastern Kentucky University and Jacksonville State University left in 2021 to join the ASUN Conference. JSU moved to Conference USA in 2023.
  6. Samford University left in 2008 to join the SoCon.
  7. East Tennessee State University left in 1978 to join the Southern Conference (SoCon). The Buccaneers returned to the SoCon in 2014 after nine seasons in the ASUN Conference.

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