List of Men's Basketball Academic All-America Team Members of the Year
The following is a list of the annual selection by the College Sports Information Directors of America and its Academic All-America sponsor of the individual athlete selected as the most outstanding of the annual Men's Basketball Academic All-America selections. Between 1996 and 2011, one winner each was chosen from both the College and University Divisions for all twelve Academic All-America teams including football. The Academic All-America program recognizes combined athletic and academic excellence of the nation's top student-athletes. The University Division team included eligible participants from National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I member schools, while the College Division team included scholar-athletes from all of the following: NCAA Division II, NCAA Division III, National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, Canadian universities and colleges and two-year schools.
Beginning in 2012, COSIDA revamped its award structure. The University Division was renamed "Division I". Since then, NCAA Divisions II and III have had their own separate All-Americans. The College Division consisted only of non-NCAA institutions through the 2017–18 school year, after which it was effectively replaced by an NAIA division restricted to members of that governing body.
Currently, each team selects Academic All-District honorees in eight geographic districts across the United States and Canada. First team All-District honorees make the All-America team ballots. Currently, all twelve Academic All-American teams have four Academic All-Americans of the Year, one from each division. In each of the four divisions, one of the twelve sport-by-sport Academic All-Americans of the Year is selected as the Academic All-America Team Member of the Year for that division. The most recent men's basketball players to receive the all-sports honor are Cooper Cook of Nebraska Wesleyan University and Kyle Steigenga of Cornerstone University, respectively named in Division III and the former College Division in 2018.
University Division/Division I
Note: All winners are American unless indicated otherwise. Names in bold were winners of the all-sports Academic All-America Award.| Year | Name | School |
| 1987–88 | ' | Brigham Young University |
| 1988–89 | ||
| 1989–90 | ' | |
| 1990–91 | ||
| 1991–92 | ||
| 1992–93 | ||
| 1993–94 | Gonzaga University | |
| 1994–95 |  | Pennsylvania State University |
| 1995–96 | ' | North Carolina State University |
| 1996–97 | University of Kansas | |
| 1997–98 | ||
| 1998–99 | Lamar University | |
| 1999–2000 | Northern Illinois University | |
| 2000–01 | Duke University | |
| 2001–02 | ||
| 2002–03 | ||
| 2003–04 | ' | |
| 2004–05 | Michigan State University | |
| 2005–06 |  | West Virginia University |
| 2006–07 | ||
| 2007–08 | Drake University | |
| 2008–09 | North Dakota State University | |
| 2009–10 | ||
| 2010–11 | Butler University | |
| 2011–12 | ||
| 2012–13 | ||
| 2013–14 | ||
| 2014–15 | ||
| 2015–16 | ||
| 2016–17 | ||
| 2017–18 | West Virginia University | |
| 2018–19 | ||
| 2019–20 | Louisiana State University |