Big 12 Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Year


The Big 12 Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Year is a basketball award given to the Big 12 Conference's most outstanding player. The award was first given following the 1996–97 season, the first year of conference competition but three years after the conference's official formation. As with the corresponding men's award, it is selected by the league's head coaches, who are not allowed to vote for their own players.
Four players have won the award more than once. Stacey Dales of Oklahoma and Nicole Ohlde of Kansas State have won twice, and Courtney Paris of Oklahoma and Brittney Griner of Baylor have won three times. No freshman has ever won the award. Only the two three-time winners and 2015 recipient Nina Davis of Baylor have won as sophomores. Two players have won a major end-of-season national award in the year that they won the Big 12 award. Griner won all three major national awards in both 2012 and 2013, and Baylor's Odyssey Sims was the 2014 Wade Trophy recipient.

Key

Winners

SeasonPlayerSchoolPositionClassReference
1996–97KansasGuard
1997–98Texas TechCenter
1998–99Texas TechCenter
1999–2000OklahomaForward
2000–01OklahomaGuard
2001–02 OklahomaGuard
2002–03Kansas StateForward/center
2003–04 Kansas StateForward/center
2004–05Kansas StateForward
2005–06BaylorForward
2006–07OklahomaCenter
2007–08 OklahomaCenter
2008–09 OklahomaCenter
2009–10NebraskaForward
2010–11BaylorCenter
2011–12* BaylorCenter
2012–13* BaylorCenter
2013–14*BaylorGuard
2014–15BaylorForward
2015–16Oklahoma StateGuard
2016–17TexasGuard
2017–18BaylorCenter
2018–19Iowa StateGuard
2019–20BaylorForward

Winners by school

School WinnersYears
Baylor 82006, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2020
Oklahoma 62000, 2001, 2002, 2007, 2008, 2009
Kansas State 32003, 2004, 2005
Texas Tech 21998, 1999
Iowa State 12019
Kansas 11997
Nebraska 12010
Oklahoma State 12016
Texas 12017
Colorado 0—
Missouri 0—
TCU 0—
Texas A&M 0—
West Virginia 0—

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