Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year
Introduction The '''Pac-12 Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year''' is an award given to the Pac-12 Conference's most outstanding player. The award was first given following the 1975–76 season, when the conference was known as the '''Pacific-8''', and is determined by voting from the Pac-12 media and coaches. There have been two players honored multiple times: David Greenwood of UCLA and Sean Elliott of Arizona. Four freshmen have also won the award: Shareef Abdur-Rahim of California, Kevin Love of UCLA, Deandre Ayton of Arizona and Evan Mobley of USC.The only current Pac-12 member without a winner is one of the two newest members, Colorado. Between the arrival of Arizona and Arizona State in 1978 and the entry of Colorado and Utah in 2011, the conference was known as the '''Pacific–10'''.
Key  † Co-Players of the Year* Awarded a national player of the year award: Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year (1904–05 to 1978–79) 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 Pac-12 Player of the Year award at that point
Winners  Season Player School Position Class Reference 1975–76   Oregon PG / SG   1976–77  * UCLA  PF   1977–78  UCLA  PF   1978–79   (2) UCLA  PF    1979–80    Washington State  SF   1980–81  Oregon State  C   1981–82   Oregon State PG   1982–83   UCLA  SF   1983–84   Oregon State  PF   1984–85   USC PF   1985–86   Washington  C   1986–87   Oregon State  C   1987–88   Arizona  SF   1988–89  * (2) Arizona  SF   1989–90   Oregon State PG   1990–91   Oregon PG   1991–92    USC   SG   1992–93   Arizona  SF   1993–94   California  PG   1994–95† * UCLA SF    Arizona  PG   1995–96  California PF   1996–97  California SG   1997–98  Arizona  PG   1998–99  Arizona  PG   1999–00  Arizona State  SG    2000–01    California  PF   2001–02    USC  PF    2002–03   Oregon PG   2003–04    Stanford  SG / SF   2004–05   Arizona State  PF / C    2005–06  Washington  SG   2006–07  UCLA SG   2007–08  UCLA  PF   2008–09  Arizona State  SG   2009–10  California  PG   2010–11  Arizona  SF / PF   2011–12  California  PG   2012–13  California  SG   2013–14  Arizona  PG / SG   2014–15  Oregon PG   2015–16  Utah C   2016–17  Oregon SF   2017–18  Arizona PF   2018–19  Washington SG   2019–20  Oregon PG   2020–21  USC F   2021–22  Arizona SG / SF   2022–23  UCLA SG / SF
Winners by school  School (year joined) Winners Years Arizona (1978) 10 1988, 1989, 1993, 1995†, 1998, 1999, 2011, 2014, 2018, 2022 UCLA (1959) 8 1977, 1978, 1979, 1983, 1995†, 2007, 2008, 2023 California (1959) 7 1994, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2010, 2012, 2013 Oregon (1964) 6 1976, 1991, 2003, 2015, 2017, 2020 Oregon State (1964) 5 1981, 1982, 1984, 1987, 1990 USC (1959) 4 1985, 1992, 2002, 2021 Arizona State (1978) 3 2000, 2005, 2009 Washington (1959) 3 1986, 2006, 2019 Stanford (1959) 1 2004 Utah (2011) 1 2016 Washington State (1962) 1 1980 Colorado (2011) 0 —* For purposes of this table, the "year joined" reflects the year that each team joined the conference now known as the Pac-12 ''as currently chartered''. Although the Pac-12 claims the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC), founded in 1915, as part of its own history, that conference disbanded in 1959 due to infighting and scandal. That same year, five PCC members established the Athletic Association of Western Universities (AAWU) under a new charter that functions to this day. The player of the year award was not established until 1976, by which time all of the final members of the PCC except for Idaho were reunited in what was then the Pac-8.
See also * List of All-Pac-12 Conference men's basketball teams
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