Ivy League Men's Basketball Player of the Year

Ivy League Men's Basketball
Player of the Year
Awarded for	Most outstanding college basketball player in the Ivy League
Country	United States
History
First award	1975
Most recent	Nick Townsend, Yale

Awarded forMost outstanding college basketball player in the Ivy League

CountryUnited States

First award1975

Most recentNick Townsend, Yale

The Ivy League Men's Basketball Player of the Year is an award given to the Ivy League's most outstanding player. The award was first given following the 1974–75 season. There have been six players honored on two occasions: Craig Robinson, Kit Mueller, Jerome Allen, Ugonna Onyekwe, Ibrahim Jaaber and Justin Sears. No player has ever won the award three times.

There have been three ties for player of the year in the award's history: in 1981–82 (Paul Little of Penn and Craig Robinson of Princeton); in 1992–93 (Jerome Allen of Penn and Buck Jenkins of Columbia); and in 2019–20 (Paul Atkinson of Yale and A. J. Brodeur of Penn).

There was no 2021 award because the Ivy League canceled all winter sports for the 2020–21 season, including men's basketball, due to COVID-19 concerns.^[1]^[2]

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†	Co-Players of the Year
*	Awarded a national player of the year award: Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year (1904–05 to 1978–79) UPI College Basketball Player of the Year (1954–55 to 1995–96) Naismith College Player of the Year (1968–69 to present) John R. Wooden Award (1976–77 to present)
Player (X)	Denotes the number of times the player has been awarded the Ivy League Player of the Year award at that point

Season	Player	School	Position	Class	Reference
1974–75	Ron Haigler	Penn	PF	Senior	^[3]
1975–76	Armond Hill	Princeton	PG	Senior	^[4]
1976–77	Frank Sowinski	Princeton	SF	Junior	^[5]
1977–78	Keven McDonald	Penn	SF	Senior	^[6]
1978–79	Tony Price	Penn	F	Senior	^[7]
1979–80	Peter Moss	Brown	F	Senior	^[8]
1980–81	Larry Lawrence	Dartmouth	SF	Senior	^[9]
1981–82^†	Paul Little	Penn	F	Junior	^[10]
1981–82^†	Craig Robinson	Princeton	F	Junior	^[10]
1982–83	Craig Robinson (2)	Princeton	F	Senior	^[11]
1983–84	Joe Carrabino	Harvard	SF	Junior	^[12]
1984–85	Ken Bantum	Cornell	C	Senior	^[13]
1985–86	Jim Turner	Brown	C	Senior	^[14]
1986–87	Perry Bromwell	Penn	G	Senior	^[15]
1987–88	Paul Maley	Yale	PF	Senior	^[16]
1988–89	Bob Scrabis	Princeton	SG / SF	Senior	^[17]
1989–90	Kit Mueller	Princeton	G	Junior	^[18]
1990–91	Kit Mueller (2)	Princeton	G	Senior	^[18]
1991–92	Sean Jackson	Princeton	SG	Senior	^[19]
1992–93^†	Jerome Allen	Penn	SG	Sophomore	^[20]
1992–93^†	Buck Jenkins	Columbia	SF	Senior	^[20]
1993–94	Jerome Allen (2)	Penn	SG	Junior	^[21]
1994–95	Matt Maloney	Penn	SG	Senior	^[22]
1995–96	Ira Bowman	Penn	G	Senior	^[23]
1996–97	Sydney Johnson	Princeton	G / F	Senior	^[24]
1997–98	Steve Goodrich	Princeton	C	Senior	^[25]
1998–99	Brian Earl	Princeton	SG	Senior	^[26]
1999–00	Michael-Hakim Jordan	Penn	PG	Senior	^[27]
2000–01	Craig Austin	Columbia	SF	Junior	^[28]
2001–02	Ugonna Onyekwe	Penn	PF	Junior	^[29]
2002–03	Ugonna Onyekwe (2)	Penn	PF	Senior	^[29]
2003–04	Jason Forte	Brown	PG	Junior	^[30]
2004–05	Tim Begley	Penn	SG	Senior	^[31]
2005–06	Ibrahim Jaaber	Penn	PG	Junior	^[32]
2006–07	Ibrahim Jaaber (2)	Penn	PG	Senior	^[32]
2007–08	Louis Dale	Cornell	PG	Sophomore	^[33]
2008–09	Alex Barnett	Dartmouth	SF	Senior	^[34]
2009–10	Ryan Wittman	Cornell	SF	Senior	^[35]
2010–11	Keith Wright	Harvard	PF	Junior	^[36]
2011–12	Zack Rosen	Penn	PG	Senior	^[37]
2012–13	Ian Hummer	Princeton	SF	Senior	^[38]
2013–14	Wesley Saunders	Harvard	SF	Junior	^[39]
2014–15	Justin Sears	Yale	SF	Junior	^[40]
2015–16	Justin Sears (2)	Yale	SF	Senior	^[41]
2016–17	Spencer Weisz	Princeton	F	Senior	^[42]
2017–18	Seth Towns	Harvard	F	Sophomore	^[43]
2018–19	Miye Oni	Yale	SG	Junior	^[44]
2019–20^†	Paul Atkinson	Yale	PF	Junior	^[45]
2019–20^†	A. J. Brodeur	Penn	PF	Senior	^[45]
2020–21	No Ivy League season held due to COVID-19 concerns^[46]
2021–22	Tosan Evbuomwan	Princeton	SF	Junior	^[47]
2022–23	Jordan Dingle	Penn	SG	Junior	^[48]
2023–24	Caden Pierce	Princeton	SF	Sophomore	^[49]
2024–25	Bez Mbeng	Yale	PG	Senior	^[50]
2025–26	Nick Townsend	Yale	PF	Senior	^[51]

School	Winners	Years
Penn	18	1975, 1978, 1979, 1982^†, 1987, 1993^†, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2012, 2020^†, 2023
Princeton	15	1976, 1977, 1982^†, 1983, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2013, 2017, 2022, 2024
Yale	7	1988, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020^†, 2025, 2026
Harvard	4	1984, 2011, 2014, 2018
Brown	3	1980, 1986, 2004
Cornell	3	1985, 2008, 2010
Columbia	2	1993^†, 2001
Dartmouth	2	1981, 2009

v t e Ivy League men's basketball
Teams	Brown Bears Columbia Lions Cornell Big Red Dartmouth Big Green Harvard Crimson Penn Quakers Princeton Tigers Yale Bulldogs
Championships & awards	Conference tournament Player of the Year
Seasons	1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24 2024–25 2025–26

Ivy League Men's Basketball Player of the Year

Winners

Winners by school

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