Big Eight Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year

Big Eight Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year
Awarded for	the most outstanding basketball player in the Big Eight Conference
Country	United States
First awarded	1957
Last awarded	1996

The Big Eight Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year was an annual basketball award given to the Big Eight Conference's most outstanding player. The award was first given following the 1956–57 season and concluded after the 1995–96 season (the Big Eight disbanded and was re-formed into the present day Big 12 Conference). From 1960 through 1967 no award was given out. Wayman Tisdale of Oklahoma and Danny Manning of Kansas are the only players to have received the award three times. Manning was also the consensus National Player of the Year in 1988. Six other players won the award twice, last performed by Bryant Reeves of Oklahoma State (1993/95).

Missouri claimed the most winners with eight, followed by Kansas, Kansas State and Oklahoma with seven apiece.

Key

†	Co-Players of the Year
*	Awarded a national Player of the Year award: the Naismith College Player of the Year or the John R. Wooden Award
Player (X)	Denotes the number of times the player has been awarded the Player of the Year award at that point

Winners

Season	Player	School	Position	Class
1956–57	Thompson, GaryGary Thompson	Iowa State	Guard	Senior
1957–58	Boozer, BobBob Boozer	Kansas State	Forward	Junior
1958–59	Boozer, BobBob Boozer (2)	Kansas State	Forward	Senior
1960–67	No Player of the Year selected
1967–68	Smith, DonaldDonald Smith	Iowa State	Center / Power forward	Senior
1968–69	Meely, CliffCliff Meely	Colorado	Center	Sophomore
1969–70	Robisch, DaveDave Robisch	Kansas	Center	Junior
1970–71†	Meely, CliffCliff Meely (2)	Colorado	Center	Senior
1970-71†	Robisch, DaveDave Robisch (2)	Kansas	Center	Senior
1971–72	Stallworth, BudBud Stallworth	Kansas	Shooting guard	Senior
1972–73	Kruger, LonLon Kruger	Kansas State	Guard	Junior
1973–74	Kruger, LonLon Kruger (2)	Kansas State	Guard	Senior
1974–75	Adams, AlvanAlvan Adams	Oklahoma	Center	Junior
1975–76	Smith, WillieWillie Smith	Missouri	Point guard / Shooting guard	Senior
1976–77†	Anderson, KimKim Anderson	Missouri	Small forward	Senior
1976–77†	Evans, MikeMike Evans	Kansas State	Shooting guard / Point guard	Junior
1977–78	Evans, MikeMike Evans (2)	Kansas State	Shooting guard / Point guard	Senior
1978–79	McCullough, JohnJohn McCullough	Oklahoma	Shooting guard / Small forward	Senior
1979–80	Blackman, RolandoRolando Blackman	Kansas State	Shooting guard	Junior
1980–81	Smith, AndreAndre Smith	Nebraska	Center	Senior
1981–82	Frazier, RickyRicky Frazier	Missouri	Small forward	Senior
1982–83†	Stipanovich, SteveSteve Stipanovich	Missouri	Center	Senior
1982–83†	Tisdale, WaymanWayman Tisdale	Oklahoma	Power forward	Freshman
1983–84	Tisdale, WaymanWayman Tisdale (2)	Oklahoma	Power forward	Sophomore
1984–85	Tisdale, WaymanWayman Tisdale (3)	Oklahoma	Power forward	Junior
1985–86	Manning, DannyDanny Manning	Kansas	Power forward	Sophomore
1986–87	Manning, DannyDanny Manning (2)	Kansas	Power forward	Junior
1987–88	Manning, DannyDanny Manning* (3)	Kansas	Power forward	Senior
1988–89	King, StaceyStacey King	Oklahoma	Center / Forward	Senior
1989–90	Smith, DougDoug Smith	Missouri	Forward	Junior
1990–91†	Houston, ByronByron Houston	Oklahoma State	Small forward	Junior
1990–91†	Smith, DougDoug Smith (2)	Missouri	Forward	Senior
1991–92	Peeler, AnthonyAnthony Peeler	Missouri	Shooting guard	Senior
1992–93	Reeves, BryantBryant Reeves	Oklahoma State	Center	Sophomore
1993–94	Booker, MelvinMelvin Booker	Missouri	Point guard	Senior
1994–95†	Minor, RyanRyan Minor	Oklahoma	Forward	Junior
1994–95†	Reeves, BryantBryant Reeves (2)	Oklahoma State	Center	Senior
1995–96	Vaughn, JacqueJacque Vaughn	Kansas	Point guard	Junior

Winners by school

For clarification of each school's membership history, see the Big Eight membership timeline.

School (year joined)	Winners	Years
Missouri (1907)	8	1976, 1977†, 1982, 1983†, 1990, 1991†, 1992, 1994
Kansas (1907)	7	1970, 1971†, 1972, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1996
Kansas State (1913)	7	1958, 1959, 1973, 1974, 1977†, 1978, 1980
Oklahoma (1919)	7	1975, 1979, 1983†, 1984, 1985, 1989, 1995†
Oklahoma State (1958)	3	1991†, 1993, 1995†
Colorado (1947)	2	1969, 1971†
Iowa State (1910)	2	1957, 1968
Nebraska (1921)	1	1981

See also

• Big 12 Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year – the successor to the Big Eight Conference and its players of the year (although the Big 12 does not recognize Big Eight Players of the Year as their own)