page_title: Ohio Valley Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year
section_title: Winners
hierarchical_section_title: Ohio Valley Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year / Winners
caption_attribution_description: en:Trenton Hassell of the New Jersey Nets
context_page_description: The Ohio Valley Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year is an annual basketball award given to the Ohio Valley Conference's most outstanding player. The award was first given following the 1962–63 season.
  Fourteen players in OVC history have claimed more than one player of the year award, the most recent of whom was Evan Bradds in 2015–16 and 2016–17. Among the repeat winners, only one—Clem Haskins of Western Kentucky—has been a three-time player of the year. Haskins achieved the feat from 1965 through 1967.
  Murray State dominates the award's selection, as it has 20 winners. Of current OVC members, only Jacksonville State and SIU Edwardsville have had no winners. Both schools are relatively new to the conference, respectively joining in 2003 and 2008. However, the conference's newest member, Belmont, had a player win at least a share of the award in four of its first five seasons in the league.
  Four ties have occurred for player of the year: 1968, 1976, 1983 and 2013. No OVC Men's Basketball Player of the Year has ever been selected as any national player of the year.
caption: Trenton Hassell won as a junior in 2001.
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