Horizon League Men's Basketball Player of the Year


The Horizon League Men's Basketball Player of the Year is a basketball award given to the Horizon League's most outstanding player. The award was first given following the 1979–80 season—the first year of the conference's existence. Five players have won the award multiple times: Byron Larkin, Brian Grant, Rashad Phillips, Alfredrick Hughes and Keifer Sykes. Hughes, unlike the other four who each won twice, was awarded the Player of the Year on three occasions—a feat that has never been duplicated.
There have only been two ties in the award's history. Butler, which left for the Atlantic 10 Conference in 2012 and is now in the Big East Conference, has seven recipients, which is the most all-time. Loyola–Chicago has six winners, but left in 2013 to join the Missouri Valley Conference. Among current members, Detroit Mercy has the most, with five. Four current members of the Horizon League have never had a winner – IUPUI, Purdue Fort Wayne, Robert Morris, and Youngstown State. However, these schools include the conference's three newest members—IUPUI joined in 2017, while Purdue Fort Wayne and Robert Morris will play their first Horizon League seasons in 2020–21. The only long-established member without a winner is Youngstown State, which joined in 2002.

Key

Winners

SeasonPlayerSchoolPositionClassReference
1979–80Oral RobertsF
1980–81†Loyola–ChicagoPG
1980–81†Oklahoma CityF
1981–82Loyola–ChicagoPF
1982–83†Oral RobertsC
1982–83†Loyola–ChicagoSF
1983–84 Loyola–ChicagoSF
1984–85 Loyola–ChicagoSF
1985–86XavierSG
1986–87Loyola–ChicagoPF
1987–88 XavierSG
1988–89EvansvillePG
1989–90XavierPF
1990–91ButlerSG
1991–92EvansvillePF
1992–93XavierPF/C
1993–94 XavierPF/C
1994–95UICF
1995–96Green BaySF
1996–97ButlerPF
1997–98UICG
1998–99DetroitSG
1999–00DetroitPG
2000–01 DetroitPG
2001–02ButlerSG
2002–03DetroitSG
2003–04MilwaukeePF/C
2004–05MilwaukeeSG
2005–06ButlerF
2006–07Wright StatePG
2007–08ButlerSG
2008–09ButlerPF
2009–10ButlerSG
2010–11Cleveland StatePG
2011–12ValparaisoSF
2012–13DetroitPG
2013–14Green BayPG
2014–15 Green BayPG
2015–16OaklandPG
2016–17ValparaisoSF
2017–18OaklandSG
2018–19Northern KentuckyPF/C
2019–20Wright StateC

Winners by school

Footnotes