The Sporting News Men's College Basketball Player of the Year is an annual basketball award given to the best men's basketball player in NCAA Division I competition. The award was first given following the 1942–43 season and is presented by The Sporting News (known from 2002–2022 as Sporting News), an American–based sports magazine that was established in 1886. No award winners were selected from 1947 to 1949 and from 1952 to 1957. Repeat winners of the Sporting News Player of the Year award are rare; as of 2024, it has occurred only eight times. Of those eight repeat winners, only Oscar Robertson of Cincinnati and Bill Walton of UCLA have been named the player of the year three times. UCLA and Duke have the most all-time awards, each with seven. North Carolina has the second-most awards with five. Duke has the most individual recipients, with all seven of its awards going to different players. North Carolina and UCLA, with four recipients each, are second by that measure.

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Winners by school

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