Southern Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year


The Southern Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year is a basketball 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. Fifteen other players have won the award twice, most recently done by Fletcher Magee of Wofford.
Davidson has the most all-time winners with 13, but it left the SoCon after the 2013–14 season to join the Atlantic 10 Conference. Among current members, Furman leads with 12 winners. 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.

Key

Winners

SeasonPlayerSchoolPositionClass
1951–52DukeGuard
1952–53FurmanShooting guard
1953–54 FurmanShooting guard
1954–55FurmanGuard
1955–56 FurmanGuard
1956–57West VirginiaSmall forward / Shooting guard
1957–58Washington and LeePoint guard
1958–59West VirginiaGuard
1959–60 West VirginiaGuard
1960–61William & MaryCenter
1961–62West VirginiaPoint guard / Shooting guard
1962–63DavidsonCenter / Power forward
1963–64 DavidsonCenter / Power forward
1964–65 DavidsonCenter / Power forward
1965–66DavidsonShooting guard
1966–67RichmondGuard
1967–68West VirginiaGuard
1968–69DavidsonCenter
1969–70 DavidsonCenter
1970–71†East CarolinaForward
1970–71†William & MaryForward
1971–72FurmanCenter
1972–73RichmondSmall forward / Shooting guard
1973–74FurmanPower forward
1974–75 FurmanPower forward
1975–76Point guard
1976–77VMIShooting guard / Point guard
1977–78 VMIShooting guard / Point guard
1978–79FurmanForward
1979–80 FurmanForward
1980–81Appalachian StateForward
1981–82ChattanoogaShooting guard
1982–83East Tennessee StateShooting guard
1983–84Power forward / Center
1984–85 Power forward / Center
1985–86VMISmall forward
1986–87 VMISmall forward
1987–88MarshallPoint guard
1988–89MarshallPoint guard
1989–90†CEast Tennessee StatePoint guard
1989–90†M MarshallPoint guard
1990–91 East Tennessee StatePoint guard
1991–92†MWestern CarolinaGuard
1991–92†CChattanoogaCenter
1992–93ChattanoogaPoint guard
1993–94†CChattanoogaPoint guard
1993–94†MWestern CarolinaShooting guard / Point guard
1994–95 Western CarolinaShooting guard / Point guard
1995–96Western CarolinaShooting guard
1996–97ChattanoogaSmall forward
1997–98†CWestern CarolinaSmall forward
1997–98†MFurmanPower forward / Center
1998–99College of CharlestonForward
1999–00Appalachian StatePoint guard
2000–01College of CharlestonCenter
2001–02†CEast Tennessee StateShooting guard
2001–02†MVMIShooting guard / Small forward
2002–03College of CharlestonShooting guard
2003–04East Tennessee StateSmall forward
2004–05DavidsonShooting guard
2005–06Georgia SouthernPoint guard
2006–07UNC GreensboroPower forward
2007–08DavidsonShooting guard / Point guard
2008–09 DavidsonShooting guard / Point guard
2009–10†CWoffordForward
2009–10†MAppalachian StatePoint guard
2010–11College of CharlestonShooting guard / Point guard
2011–12†CDavidsonSmall forward
2011–12†MDavidsonPower forward
2012–13 DavidsonPower forward
2013–14 DavidsonSmall forward
2014–15WoffordShooting guard
2015–16FurmanShooting guard
2016–17FurmanShooting guard
2017–18†CEast Tennessee StatePoint guard
2017–18†MWoffordShooting guard
2018–19 WoffordShooting guard
2019–20UNC GreensboroShooting guard

Winners by school

Footnotes