The Conference USA Men's Basketball Player of the Year is a basketball award given to
Conference USA
Conference USA (C-USA or CUSA) is an intercollegiate athletic conference whose current member institutions are located within the Southern United States. The conference participates in the NCAA's Division I in all sports. C-USA's offices are l ...
's (C-USA) most outstanding player. The award was first given following C-USA's inaugural 1995–96 season. Two players have received the award multiple times:
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(1996, 1997) and
Steve Logan (2001, 2002). Coincidentally, both players attended the
University of Cincinnati
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. Another
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Kenyon Martin
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, won the C-USA Player of the Year award the same season he was selected as the consensus National Player of the Year (2000).
Cincinnati and
Memphis
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have the most awards, with five each; Memphis has the most individual winners, with all of its awards having been won by different players. However, neither school is currently a member of the conference. Due to C-USA having lost many members in both the
2005
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and
early-2010s conference realignment cycles, only seven of its current 14 members have had a winner. The four current C-USA members with more than one winner are
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,
Louisiana Tech
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,
Middle Tennessee
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, and
UAB; Charlotte and UAB will both
leave C-USA in 2023.
Key
Winners
Winners by school
References
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NCAA Division I men's basketball conference players of the year
Player Of The Year
Several sports leagues honour their best player with an award called Player of the Year (POY) . In the United States, this type of award is usually called a Most Valuable Player award.
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Awards established in 1996