The Patriot League Men's Basketball Player of the Year is a basketball award given to the
Patriot League
The Patriot League is a collegiate athletic conference comprising private institutions of higher education and two United States service academies based in the Northeastern United States. Outside the Ivy League, it is among the most selective gr ...
's most outstanding player. The award was first given following the 1990–91 season, the first under the Patriot League name and also the league's first season as an all-sports conference. There have been five repeat winners of the award:
Adonal Foyle
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of
Colgate (1996, 1997),
Brian Ehlers of
Lafayette
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(1999, 2000),
CJ McCollum
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of
Lehigh (2010, 2012),
Mike Muscala
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Early life
Muscala was born on July 1, 1991, in St. Louis Park, Minnes ...
of
Bucknell (2011, 2013), and
Tim Kempton Jr.
Timothy Kempton Jr. (born April 28, 1995) is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball at Lehigh University, where he was the 2015 and 2016 Patriot League Men's Basketball Player of the Year, Patriot League P ...
of Lehigh (2015, 2016). Bucknell claims the most awards (8) while
Colgate is second with six. Bucknell has the most individual players honored with seven.
Two Patriot League members have not had a winner:
Army
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and
Loyola Maryland. No ties have ever occurred for the player of the year award.
Key
Winners
Winners by school
Footnotes
* Fordham and Army were not charter members of the conference when it was established as the football-only Colonial League in 1986. They became members in 1990 when the conference became an all-sports league (and also adopted its current name).
* Fordham left for the
Atlantic 10 Conference
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in 1995. They are still a Patriot League associate member in
football
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.
References
External links
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{{Men's college basketball award navbox
NCAA Division I men's basketball conference players of the year
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Awards established in 1991
1991 establishments in the United States