The Bob Cousy Award presented by The College of the Holy Cross (or Bob Cousy Collegiate Point Guard of the Year Award)
is an annual
basketball
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award given by the
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
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to the top men's
collegiate point guard
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. It is named after six-time
National Basketball Association
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(NBA) champion
Bob Cousy, who played point guard for the
Boston Celtics
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from 1950 to 1963. Cousy won six championships with the Celtics.
Annually, a list of players is nominated by college head coaches, members of College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA), and members of the
National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC). A screening committee of CoSIDA members reviews the nominations, and selects 16 players from each division (12 from
National Collegiate Athletic Association
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(NCAA)
Division I, and two each from
Division II and
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). A selection committee appointed by the Hall then selects the winner. This 30-member committee is composed of
Hall of Famers
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, head coaches,
sports information directors, the media, and Cousy himself.
When
Maryland's Greivis Vásquez won the award in 2010, the
Venezuela
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n became the first player born outside the U.S. to receive this award. The
University of North Carolina
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has fielded the greatest number of award winners (3), with
Raymond Felton winning the award in 2005,
Ty Lawson receiving the honor in 2009 and
Kendall Marshall
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winning in 2012.
Winners
Winners by school
See also
*
Nancy Lieberman Award – the counterpart to the Bob Cousy Award; given to the nation's top NCAA female point guard.
References
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External links
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Awards established in 2004
College basketball trophies and awards in the United States