This article lists U.S. men's college basketball national player of the year awards. Several organizations sponsor an award for the top men's college basketball player in the United States. Thirty (30) times since there have been six player of the year awards has a single player won all awards. These players are considered the consensus national player of the year.

Sponsoring organizations + Active awards Award name Sponsoring organization First awarded The Sporting News Player of the Year The Sporting News 1943 Oscar Robertson Trophy U.S. Basketball Writers Association 1959 Associated Press Player of the Year Associated Press 1961 Naismith College Player of the Year Atlanta Tipoff Club 1969 NABC Player of the Year National Association of Basketball Coaches 1975 John R. Wooden Award Los Angeles Athletic Club 1977+ Discontinued awards Award name Sponsoring organization Years awarded Helms Foundation Player of the Year Helms Athletic Foundation 1905–1983 UPI Player of the Year United Press International 1955–1996 Adolph Rupp TrophyCommonwealth Athletic Club of Kentucky 1972–2015

Key † Shared (non-consensus) national players of the year Player (X) Denotes the number of years the player has been awarded a national player of the year award at that point Player won award Player did not win award T Tied for award

List of awardees The below list includes winners from just the active national player of the year award sponsoring organizations.

Season Player School Class Sporting News Oscar Robertson Associated Press Naismith NABC John Wooden 1942–43 Illinois No award No award No award No award No award 1943–44 Army 1944–45 1945–46 Oklahoma State 1946–47 No winners selected 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 No winners selected 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 (2) Cincinnati 1959–60 (3) Cincinnati 1960–61 Ohio State 1961–62 (2) Ohio State 1962–63 Duke 1963–64† Princeton UCLA 1964–65 (2) Princeton 1965–66 Michigan 1966–67 UCLA 1967–68† (2) UCLA Houston 1968–69† (3) UCLA LSU 1969–70 (2) LSU 1970–71† Notre Dame UCLA 1971–72 UCLA 1972–73 (2) UCLA 1973–74† NC State (3) UCLA 1974–75 (2) 1975–76† Notre Dame Indiana 1976–77 UCLA 1977–78† North Carolina Marquette 1978–79 Indiana State 1979–80† DePaul La Salle Louisville 1980–81† (2) DePaul BYU Virginia 1981–82 (2) Virginia 1982–83† North Carolina (3) Virginia 1983–84 (2) North Carolina 1984–85† Georgetown St. John's 1985–86† St. John's Duke 1986–87 Navy 1987–88† Bradley Kansas 1988–89† Arizona Duke Oklahoma 1989–90† Georgia Tech La Salle 1990–91† UNLV LSU 1991–92 Duke 1992–93 Indiana 1993–94 Purdue 1994–95† UCLA Michigan State Maryland 1995–96 UMass 1996–97 Wake Forest 1997–98 North Carolina 1998–99 Duke 1999–00 Cincinnati 2000–01† Duke Duke 2001–02† Kansas T (2) Duke T 2002–03† Kansas Texas Xavier 2003–04† Saint Joseph's T UConn T 2004–05† Utah Illinois 2005–06† Gonzaga T T Duke T T 2006–07 Texas 2007–08 North Carolina 2008–09 Oklahoma 2009–10 Ohio State 2010–11 BYU 2011–12† Kentucky Michigan State 2012–13† Michigan Indiana 2013–14 Creighton 2014–15 Wisconsin 2015–16† Oklahoma Michigan State 2016–17 Kansas 2017–18 Villanova 2018–19 Duke 2019–20† Iowa Dayton 2020–21 (2) Iowa 2021–22 Kentucky 2022–23 Purdue 2023–24 (2) Purdue 2024–25† Auburn Duke 2025–26 Duke Lew Alcindor later changed his named to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

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