Great West Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year

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Not to be confused with the also-defunct Great Midwest Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year.
Great West Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year
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Awarded for the most outstanding basketball player in the Great West Conference
Country United States
First awarded 2010
Last awarded 2013
Currently held by Chris Flores, NJIT

The Great West Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year was an annual basketball award given to the Great West Conference's (GWC) most outstanding player. The award was first given following the 2009–10 season, the conference's first as a member of NCAA Division I. The GWC was officially formed on February 25, 2004 as a football-only conference.[1] On July 10, 2008, it was announced that the GWC would change from a football-only conference into an all-sports conference. The following season (2008–09) competition began in a limited number of other sports such as track and field, cross country and golf.[1] Due to massive conference-switching by dozens of Division I schools during the 2010–13 NCAA conference realignment, the Great West Conference officially disbanded on July 1, 2013, after all but New Jersey Institute of Technology departed.[2]

Tyler Cain, a 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m) senior power forward from the University of South Dakota, was the first-ever Great West Men's Basketball Player of the Year.[3]

Winners

Season Player School Position Class Reference
2009–10 Tyler Cain South Dakota Power forward Senior [3]
2010–11 Isiah Williams Utah Valley Point guard Junior [4]
2011–12 Isaiah Wilkerson NJIT Small forward / Shooting guard Senior [5]
2012–13 Chris Flores NJIT Point guard / Shooting guard Senior [6]

Winners by school

School (year joined) Winners Years
NJIT (2008) 2 2012, 2013
South Dakota[a] (2008) 1 2010
Utah Valley (2008) 1 2011
Chicago State (2008) 0 —
Houston Baptist (2008) 0 —
North Dakota[b] (2008) 0 —
Texas–Pan American (2008) 0 —

Footnotes

References

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