Lefty Driesell Award
The Lefty Driesell Defensive Player of the Year Award is an award given annually to the most outstanding men's college basketball defender in NCAA Division I competition. The award was established in 2010 and is named after head coach Lefty Driesell, who is the only head coach to amass 100 wins at four different Division I schools and is best remembered for his success with the Davidson Wildcats and Maryland Terrapins programs.
Key
Winners
| Year | Player | School | Class | Reference |
| 2009–10 | Mississippi State | |||
| 2010–11 | Old Dominion | |||
| 2011–12 | * | Kentucky | ||
| 2012–13 | Stony Brook | |||
| 2013–14 | Louisiana | |||
| 2014–15 | Virginia | |||
| 2015–16 | Valparaiso | |||
| 2016–17 | West Virginia | |||
| 2017–18 | West Virginia | |||
| 2018–19 | Washington | |||
| 2019–20 | Merrimack | |||
| 2020–21 | Baylor | |||
| 2021–22 | Saint Peter's | |||
| 2022–23 | Rutgers | |||
| 2023–24 | Northwestern | |||
| 2024–25 | Houston |