# NABC Defensive Player of the Year

The NABC Defensive Player of the Year is a college basketball award given annually by the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) to recognize the top men's defensive player in NCAA Division I competition. It has been given since 1987 and was previously known as the Henry Iba Corinthian Award, named after Naismith Hall of Fame coach Henry Iba, who coached at Oklahoma State from 1934 to 1970.
Duke has dominated the award with six recipients who have won a total of nine awards. The only other schools with more than one recipient are UConn, with two recipients who combined for four awards, and Ohio State, Kentucky, and Virginia with two recipients who each won the award once. Three players have been named the NABC Defensive Player of the Year on three occasions—Stacey Augmon of UNLV (1989–1991), Tim Duncan of Wake Forest (1995–1997), and Shane Battier of Duke (1999–2001). Greg Oden (2007) and Anthony Davis (2012) are the only freshmen to have won the award.
Two winners of this award were born outside the main territory of the United States. Duncan was born in the United States Virgin Islands, an insular area of the U.S.; by U.S. law, all natives of the USVI are U.S. citizens by birth. Hasheem Thabeet, the 2008 and 2009 winner, is a native of Tanzania.

## Key

| † | Co-Players of the Year |
| * | Awarded a national player of the year award: Sporting News; Oscar Robertson Trophy; Associated Press; NABC; UPI; Naismith; Wooden; Adolph Rupp Trophy |
| Player (X) | Denotes the number of times the player has been awarded the NABC DPOY award at that point |

## Winners

| Season | Player | School | Position | Class |
| 1986–87 | Tommy Amaker | Duke | PG | Senior |
| 1987–88 | Billy King | Duke | F | Senior |
| 1988–89 | Stacey Augmon | UNLV | SF | Sophomore |
| 1989–90 | Stacey Augmon (2) | UNLV | SF | Junior |
| 1990–91 | Stacey Augmon (3) | UNLV | SF | Senior |
| 1991–92 | Alonzo Mourning | Georgetown | C | Senior |
| 1992–93 | Grant Hill | Duke | SF | Junior |
| 1993–94 | Jim McIlvaine | Marquette | C | Senior |
| 1994–95 | Tim Duncan | Wake Forest | C | Sophomore |
| 1995–96 | Tim Duncan (2) | Wake Forest | C | Junior |
| 1996–97 | Tim Duncan* (3) | Wake Forest | C | Senior |
| 1997–98 | Steve Wojciechowski | Duke | SG | Senior |
| 1998–99 | Shane Battier | Duke | SF | Sophomore |
| 1999–00$^†$ | Shane Battier (2) | Duke | SF | Junior |
| 1999–00$^†$ | Kenyon Martin* | Cincinnati | C | Senior |
| 2000–01 | Shane Battier* (3) | Duke | SF | Senior |
| 2001–02 | John Linehan | Providence | PG | Senior |
| 2002–03 | Emeka Okafor | UConn | C | Sophomore |
| 2003–04 | Emeka Okafor* (2) | UConn | C | Junior |
| 2004–05 | Shelden Williams | Duke | PF | Junior |
| 2005–06 | Shelden Williams (2) | Duke | PF | Senior |
| 2006–07 | Greg Oden | Ohio State | C | Freshman |
| 2007–08 | Hasheem Thabeet | UConn | C | Sophomore |
| 2008–09 | Hasheem Thabeet (2) | UConn | C | Junior |
| 2009–10 | Jarvis Varnado | Mississippi State | C | Senior |
| 2010–11 | Kenneth Faried | Morehead State | PF / C | Senior |
| 2011–12 | Anthony Davis* | Kentucky | C | Freshman |
| 2012–13$^†$ | Victor Oladipo* | Indiana | SG | Junior |
| 2012–13$^†$ | Jeff Withey | Kansas | C | Senior |
| 2013–14 | Aaron Craft | Ohio State | PG | Senior |
| 2014–15 | Willie Cauley-Stein | Kentucky | PF / C | Junior |
| 2015–16 | Malcolm Brogdon | Virginia | SG | Senior |
| 2016–17 | Jevon Carter | West Virginia | PG | Junior |
| 2017–18 | Jevon Carter (2) | West Virginia | PG | Senior |
| 2018–19 | De'Andre Hunter | Virginia | SF | Sophomore |
| 2019–20 | Udoka Azubuike | Kansas | C | Senior |
| 2020–21 | Davion Mitchell | Baylor | PG | Junior |
| 2021–22 | Walker Kessler | Auburn | C | Sophomore |
| 2022–23 | Jaylen Clark | UCLA | SG | Junior |
| 2023–24 | Jamal Shead | Houston | PG | Senior |

## Winners by school

| School | Winners | Years |
| Duke | 9 | 1987, 1988, 1993, 1998, 1999, 2000$^†$, 2001, 2005, 2006 |
| UConn | 4 | 2003, 2004, 2008, 2009 |
| UNLV | 3 | 1989, 1990, 1991 |
| Wake Forest | 3 | 1995, 1996, 1997 |
| Kansas | 2 | 2013,$^†$ 2020 |
| Kentucky | 2 | 2012, 2015 |
| Ohio State | 2 | 2007, 2014 |
| Virginia | 2 | 2016, 2019 |
| West Virginia | 2 | 2017, 2018 |
| Auburn | 1 | 2022 |
| Baylor | 1 | 2021 |
| Cincinnati | 1 | 2000$^†$ |
| Georgetown | 1 | 1992 |
| Houston | 1 | 2024 |
| Indiana | 1 | 2013$^†$ |
| Marquette | 1 | 1994 |
| Mississippi State | 1 | 2010 |
| Morehead State | 1 | 2011 |
| Providence | 1 | 2002 |
| UCLA | 1 | 2023 |