Southern Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year


The Southern Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year is an award given to the Southern Conference's most outstanding player. The award was first given following the 1951–52 season. Fred Hetzel of Davidson is the only player to have won the award three times. Sixteen other players have won the award twice, most recently done by Isaiah Miller of UNC Greensboro.
Davidson and Furman have the most all-time winners with 13, but Davidson left the SoCon after the 2013–14 season to join the Atlantic 10 Conference. There have also been nine ties in the award's history, but only one which occurred prior to the 1989–90 season. That season was the first for two separate player of the year awards—one by the Southern Conference men's basketball coaches, and the other by conference media members. When both the coaches and media select the same player, he is the consensus conference player of the year.
The only current members that have never had a winner are Samford and Mercer. Both are among the SoCon's newer members, having respectively joined in 2008 and 2014.

Winners

SeasonPlayerSchoolPositionClassReference
1951–52DukeG
1952–53FurmanSG
1953–54 FurmanSG
1954–55FurmanG
1955–56 FurmanG
1956–57West VirginiaSF / SG
1957–58Washington and LeePG
1958–59West VirginiaG
1959–60 West VirginiaG
1960–61William & MaryC
1961–62West VirginiaPG / SG
1962–63DavidsonC / PF
1963–64 DavidsonC / PF
1964–65 DavidsonC / PF
1965–66DavidsonSG
1966–67RichmondG
1967–68West VirginiaG
1968–69DavidsonC
1969–70 DavidsonC
1970–71†East CarolinaF
1970–71†William & MaryF
1971–72FurmanC
1972–73RichmondSF / SG
1973–74FurmanPF
1974–75 FurmanPF
1975–76PG
1976–77VMISG / PG
1977–78 VMISG / PG
1978–79FurmanF
1979–80 FurmanF
1980–81Appalachian StateF
1981–82ChattanoogaSG
1982–83East Tennessee StateSG
1983–84PF / C
1984–85 PF / C
1985–86VMISF
1986–87 VMISF
1987–88MarshallPG
1988–89MarshallPG
1989–90†CEast Tennessee StatePG
1989–90†M MarshallPG
1990–91 East Tennessee StatePG
1991–92†MWestern CarolinaG
1991–92†CChattanoogaC
1992–93ChattanoogaPG
1993–94†CChattanoogaPG
1993–94†MWestern CarolinaSG / PG
1994–95 Western CarolinaSG / PG
1995–96Western CarolinaSG
1996–97ChattanoogaSF
1997–98†CWestern CarolinaSF
1997–98†MFurmanPF / C
1998–99CharlestonF
1999–00Appalachian StatePG
2000–01CharlestonC
2001–02†CEast Tennessee StateSG
2001–02†MVMISG / SF
2002–03CharlestonSG
2003–04East Tennessee StateSF
2004–05DavidsonSG
2005–06Georgia SouthernPG
2006–07UNC GreensboroPF
2007–08DavidsonSG / PG
2008–09 DavidsonSG / PG
2009–10†CWoffordF
2009–10†MAppalachian StatePG
2010–11CharlestonSG / PG
2011–12†CDavidsonSF
2011–12†MDavidsonPF
2012–13 DavidsonPF
2013–14 DavidsonSF
2014–15WoffordSG
2015–16FurmanSG
2016–17FurmanSG
2017–18†CEast Tennessee StatePG
2017–18†MWoffordSG
2018–19 WoffordSG
2019–20UNC GreensboroPG
2020–21 UNC GreensboroPG
2021–22ChattanoogaSG
2022–23FurmanF
2023–24Western CarolinaPG
2024–25East Tennessee StateSG