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Jerry West Award

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The Jerry West Shooting Guard of the Year Award is an annual basketball award given by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame to the top men's collegiate shooting guard. The award is named after former Los Angeles Lakers shooting guard, Jerry West. Following the success of the Bob Cousy Award that had been awarded since 2004, the award was one of four new awards (along with the Julius Erving Award, Karl Malone Award and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award) created as part of the inaugural College Basketball Awards show in 2015.[1] The inaugural winner was D'Angelo Russell of Ohio State.[2]

Awarded forthe nation's top male shooting guard in NCAA basketball
CountryUnited States
First award2015
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Jerry West Award
Awarded forthe nation's top male shooting guard in NCAA basketball
CountryUnited States
Presented byNaismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
History
First award2015
Most recentKeaton Wagler, Illinois
WebsiteOfficial website
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    *     Awarded a national player of the year award:
Sporting News; Oscar Robertson Trophy; Associated Press; NABC; Naismith; Wooden

Winners

Marcus Sasser, Houston, 2023
R. J. Davis, North Carolina, 2024

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