Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year
Introduction The '''Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year''' is an award given to the Big Ten Conference's most outstanding player. The award was first given following the 1984–85 season. Only three players have won the award multiple times: Jim Jackson of Ohio State (1991, 1992), Mateen Cleaves of Michigan State (1998, 1999) and Luka Garza of Iowa (2020, 2021). Ten players who won the Big Ten Player of the Year award were also named the national player of the year by one or more major voting bodies: Jim Jackson (1992), Calbert Cheaney of Indiana (1993), Glenn Robinson of Purdue (1994), Evan Turner of Ohio State (2010), Draymond Green of Michigan State (2012), Trey Burke of Michigan (2013), Frank Kaminsky of Wisconsin (2015), Denzel Valentine of Michigan State (2016), Luka Garza of Iowa (2021), and Zach Edey of Purdue (2023).Michigan State has the record for the most winners with nine. Of current Big Ten Conference members, five schools have never had a winner: Maryland, Nebraska, Northwestern, Penn State, and Rutgers. Of these, only Northwestern was in the conference since the inception of this award—Penn State joined the Big Ten in 1991, Nebraska joined in 2011, followed by Maryland and Rutgers in 2014.
Key  † Co-Players of the Year* Awarded a national player of the year award:UPI College Basketball Player of the Year (1954–55 to 1995–96)Naismith College Player of the Year (1968–69 to present)John R. Wooden Award (1976–77 to present) Player (X) Denotes the number of times the player has been awarded the Big Ten Player of the Year award at that point
Winners Devin Harris was the first winner for Wisconsin (2004).Draymond Green won in (2012) and was the first to win all Big Ten honors (Sixth Man, Defensive, MOP, Player of Year) and National Player of the YearTrey Burke won in (2013) while also winning multiple national Player of the Year honors.Luka Garza of Iowa was the last two-time winner (2020 and 2021) Season Player School Position Class Reference 1984–85  Michigan PF / C   1985–86  Michigan State PG   1986–87  Ohio State SF   1987–88  Michigan PG   1988–89†  Indiana SG    Michigan SG / SF   1989–90  Purdue C   1990–91  Ohio State SG   1991–92 * (2) Ohio State SG   1992–93 * Indiana SF   1993–94 * Purdue SF   1994–95  Michigan State SG   1995–96  Indiana PF   1996–97 '''' ''Minnesota'' PG   1997–98  Michigan State PG   1998–99†  (2) Michigan State PG    Ohio State PG   1999–00†  Indiana SG    Michigan State SF   2000–01  Illinois PG   2001–02  Indiana C   2002–03  Illinois PF   2003–04  Wisconsin PG   2004–05  Illinois SG   2005–06  Ohio State PF   2006–07  Wisconsin SF   2007–08  Indiana PF   2008–09  Michigan State PG   2009–10 * Ohio State SG   2010–11  Purdue C   2011–12 * Michigan State SF   2012–13 * Michigan PG   2013–14  Michigan SG   2014–15 * Wisconsin PF   2015–16 * Michigan State SG   2016–17  Purdue PF   2017–18  Ohio State SF   2018–19  Michigan State PG   2019–20  Iowa C   2020–21 * (2) Iowa C   2021–22  Wisconsin SG   2022–23 * Purdue C  Bobby Jackson's selection was later vacated (along with that season's win total and all other accolades) due to an academic fraud scandal that ruled the entire team ineligible.
Winners by school  School (year joined) Winners Years Michigan State (1953) 9 1986, 1995, 1998, 1999†, 2000†, 2009, 2012, 2016, 2019 Ohio State (1912) 7 1987, 1991, 1992, 1999†, 2006, 2010, 2018 Indiana (1900) 6 1989†, 1993, 1996, 2000†, 2002, 2008 Michigan (1896) 5 1985, 1988, 1989†, 2013, 2014 Purdue (1896) 5 1990, 1994, 2011, 2017, 2023 Wisconsin (1896) 4 2004, 2007, 2015, 2022 Illinois (1896) 3 2001, 2003, 2005 Iowa (1900) 2 2020, 2021 Minnesota (1896) 0 1997 vacated Maryland (2014) 0 — Nebraska (2011) 0 — Northwestern (1896) 0 — Penn State (1993) 0 — Rutgers (2014) 0 —
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