The Chicago Tribune Silver Basketball was an award presented annually by the Chicago Tribune to the men's and women's college basketball most valuable players of the Big Ten Conference each season, as voted upon by the league's coaches and officials.
[1][2] It was considered the pre-eminent Big Ten basketball individual award, eventually being superseded by the present-day men's and women's players of the awards as voted upon by the league's coaches and media.
A number of men's and women's honorees were also named the national player of the year (NPOY) by one of the major selectors in the same season of this award.
On the women's side, two players were also NPOYs: Carol Ann Shudlick (1994) and Stephanie White (1999).
a Bobby Jackson's selection was later vacated (along with that season's win total and all other accolades) due to an academic fraud scandal that ruled the entire team ineligible.