__NOTOC__ The Midwestern Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year was an annual award given to the

Midwestern Conference The Midwestern Conference, alternatively Conference of Midwestern Universities, was a college athletic conference which operated in Illinois and Indiana from 1970 to 1972. It was composed of schools which had recently moved from Division II (then ...

's most outstanding player. The award was bestowed for just the 1971–72 season, however. When the Midwestern Conference was founded in 1970–71, men's basketball did not name a league player of the year. In the second season of the conference's existence,

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' Jim Bradley won the inaugural award. The conference disbanded after that year due to only having five members, and in order to be recognized by the NCAA, a conference was required to have six or more member institutions.

Winners

Winners by school

References

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Awards established in 1972 Awards disestablished in 1972