The Sporting News Men's College Basketball Player of the Year

The Sporting News Men's College Basketball Player of the Year is an annual basketball award given to the best men's basketball player in NCAA Division I competition.

Repeat winners of the The Sporting News Player of the Year award are rare; as of 2024, it has occurred only eight times.

Of those eight repeat winners, only Oscar Robertson of Cincinnati and Bill Walton of UCLA have been named the player of the year three times.

Duke has the most individual recipients, with all seven of its awards going to different players.

North Carolina and UCLA, with four recipients each, are second by that measure.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (then known as Lew Alcindor) makes a slam dunk during a game while at UCLA
Bill Walton was a three-time winner at UCLA
Michael Jordan won the award in 1983 and 1984
Kevin Durant was the first freshman winner in the award's history
The 2010 winner, Evan Turner of Ohio State
Luka Garza won the award in 2020 and 2021, becoming the first repeat winner in 37 years