Naismith Award
The Naismith College Player of the Year Award is given annually by the Naismith Board of Selectors. The first award went to Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar). Bill Walton and Ralph Sampson have both won the award three times.
| Yr | Naismith Winner | Team |
| 2008 | Tyler Hansbrough | University of North Carolina |
| 2007 | Kevin Durant | University of Texas |
| 2006 | J J Redick | Duke University |
| 2005 | Andrew Bogut | University of Utah |
| 2004 | Jameer Nelson | St Josephs |
| 2003 | T J Ford | University of Texas |
| 2002 | Jason Williams | Duke University |
| 2001 | Shane Battier | Duke University |
| 2000 | Kenyon Martin | University of Cincinnati |
| 1999 | Elton Brand | Duke University |
| 1998 | Antawn Jamison | University of North Carolina |
| 1997 | Tim Duncan | Wake Forest |
| 1996 | Marcus Camby | University of Massachusetts |
| 1995 | Joe Smith | University of Maryland |
| 1994 | Glenn Robinson | Purdue University |
| 1993 | Calbert Cheaney | Indiana University |
| 1992 | Christian Laettner | Duke University |
| 1991 | Larry Johnson | University of Nevada-Las Vegas |
| 1990 | Lionel Simmons | La Salle University |
| 1989 | Danny Ferry | Duke University |
| 1988 | Danny Manning | University of Kansas |
| 1987 | David Robinson | Navy |
| 1986 | Johnny Dawkins | Duke University |
| 1985 | Patrick Ewing | Georgetown University |
| 1984 | Michael Jordan | University of North Carolina |
| 1983 | Ralph Sampson | University of Virginia |
| 1982 | Ralph Sampson | University of Virginia |
| 1981 | Ralph Sampson | University of Virginia |
| 1980 | Mark Aguirre | DePaul |
| 1979 | Larry Bird | Indiana State |
| 1978 | Butch Lee | Marquette |
| 1977 | Marques Johnson | UCLA |
| 1976 | Scott May | Indiana University |
| 1975 | David Thompson | North Carolina State University |
| 1974 | Bill Walton | University of California-Los Angeles |
| 1973 | Bill Walton | University of California-Los Angeles |
| 1972 | Bill Walton | University of California-Los Angeles |
| 1971 | Austin Carr | University of Notre Dame |
| 1970 | Pete Maravich | Louisiana State University |
| 1969 | Lew Alcindor | UCLA |
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