List of Men's Basketball Academic All-America Team Members of the Year

The Men's Basketball Academic All-America Team Member of the Year is the annually-awarded most outstanding singular college basketball male athlete selected for the Academic All-America Teams in a given year. The Academic All-America program is selected by the College Sports Communicators (formerly known as College Sports Information Directors of America, or CoSIDA), and recognizes combined athletic performance and academic achievement excellence of the nation's top student-athletes.^[1]

Men's basketball became the second sport with All-America team recognition in 1963. Since the 1987–88 academic year, All-America of the Year selections began with one winner each chosen from both the College and University Divisions for all All-America teams. Originally, the University Division team included eligible participants from National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I member schools, while the College Division team included scholar-athletes from all non-NCAA Division I institutions. Beginning in 2012, CoSIDA revamped its award structure. The University Division was renamed "Division I", and NCAA Division II and Division III were made their own separate All-American categories. The remaining schools initially still comprised the College Division. After the 2018 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) division split off, the College Division was limited to two-year colleges, Canadian universities and Canadian colleges and institutions not affiliated with the NCAA or NAIA.^[1] A fifth Division with NAIA schools separate from Canadian and two-year member schools was announced with selections only in the At-large category.^[2][a]

Currently, each team selects Academic All-District honorees in eight geographic districts across the United States and Canada.^[3] The districts are: District 1 (Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont), District 2 (Delaware, District of Columbia, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia), District 3 (North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia), District 4 (Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Puerto Rico, South Carolina), District 5 (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio), District 6 (Arizona, Iowa, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Wyoming), District 7 (Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas), and District 8 (Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Canada).^[4] The All-District honorees make up the All-America team ballots. Currently, all twelve Academic All-American teams (men's and women's basketball, men's and women's soccer, men's and women's track & field, men's baseball, women's softball, men's American football, women's volleyball, men's and women's swimming & diving, men's and women's tennis and men's and women's at-large teams) have one Academic All-American of the Year per division. One of these twelve sport-by-sport Academic All-Americans of the year is selected as the Academic All-America Team Member of the Year for each division.^[5] The most recent men's basketball players to receive the all-sports honor are Cooper Cook of Nebraska Wesleyan University and Kyle Steigenga of Cornerstone University, respectively named in Division III and the former College Division in 2018.^[6][7]