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's (OVC) most outstanding player. The award was first given following the 1962–63 season. Fifteen players in OVC history have claimed more than one player of the year award, the most recent of whom was

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. Among the repeat winners, only one—

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—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 (equal to the total of the next three programs on the list), joined the

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. Second-place Austin Peay, with eight awards, joined the

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. Among schools remaining in the OVC after 2022, Morehead State has the most awards with six. Four current OVC members have yet to produce a winner, but three (

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) are playing their first OVC seasons in 2022–23; the only pre-2022 member without a winner is SIU Edwardsville. Four ties have occurred for player of the year: 1968, 1976, 1983 and 2013. No OVC Men's Basketball Player of the Year has ever been selected as any national player of the year.

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Winners

Isaiah Canaan 2011 Murray State University Men's Basketball

Winners by school

Footnotes

References

* {{Men's college basketball award navbox NCAA Division I men's basketball conference players of the year

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Awards established in 1963