The ASUN Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year is an annual award given to the

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's most outstanding player. The award was first given following the 1978–79 season, the first year of the ASUN's existence, when it was known as the Trans America Athletic Conference (TAAC). Only two players have won the award three times: Willie Jackson of

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(1982–1984) and Darius McGhee of

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(2021–2023). Centenary has the most all-time winners with six, but left the conference in 2000, when the league was still known as the TAAC. There has been only one tie in the award's history, which occurred in 1997–98 between Mark Jones of UCF and

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of Charleston. Among the 12 current ASUN members, only four have had a winner:

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, Florida Gulf Coast, Lipscomb, and

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Winners

Winners by school

References

{{Men's college basketball award navbox Awards established in 1979 NCAA Division I men's basketball conference players of the year

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