The Southeastern Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year is an award given to the most outstanding player in the

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(SEC). The school with the most SEC Player of the Year award winners is Kentucky, with 18 total awards. The only current SEC members that have never had a winner are

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, Texas, and Oklahoma, who are the conference's two newest members (the first two joining in

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and the latter two in 2024). Three different organizations have given this award:

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(1965–1992),

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(1965–present), and the SEC coaches (1987–present).

Key

Winners

Winners by school

*If no special demarcation indicates which voting body's award the player won that season, then he had earned all of the awards available for that year. *Chris Jackson changed his name to Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf in 1991 after converting to

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