Atlantic 10 Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year

The Atlantic 10 Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year is an award given to the Atlantic 10 Conference's (A-10) most outstanding player. The award was first given following the conference's inaugural 1976–77 season, when the conference was officially known as the Eastern Collegiate Basketball League but popularly known as the Eastern 8. David West of Xavier is the only player to have won the award three times (2001–2003). Four other players (James Bailey, Earl Belcher, Greg Jones and Steven Smith) have won the award twice. Three players have also won the award in the same season that they were named the Naismith College Player of the Year or received the John R. Wooden Award, the nation's two most prestigious men's college basketball awards: Marcus Camby in 1996, Jameer Nelson in 2004, and Obi Toppin in 2020.

A-10 Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year

Awarded for	the most outstanding basketball player in the Atlantic 10 Conference
Country	United States
History
First award	1977
Most recent	Max Shulga, VCU

As of 2025, Temple has the most all-time winners with 10, but the Owls left for the American Athletic Conference in July 2013. Among schools remaining in the conference beyond 2013, Saint Joseph's and UMass have the most winners, with five each. There have been four ties in the award's history (1983, 2005, 2018, 2024). Three current member schools have had no winners—Fordham, George Mason, and the league's newest member Loyola Chicago, which joined in 2022.

Key

†	Co-Players of the Year
*	Awarded a national player of the year award: Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year (1904–05 to 1978–79) UPI College Basketball Player of the Year (1954–55 to 1995–96) Naismith College Player of the Year (1968–69 to present) John R. Wooden Award (1976–77 to present)
Player (X)	Denotes the number of times the player has been awarded the A-10 Player of the Year award at that point

Winners

Norm Nixon, Duquesne, 1977

Terence Stansbury, Temple, 1984

Harper Williams, UMass, 1992

Aaron McKie, Temple, 1993

Eddie Jones, Temple, 1994

Marcus Camby, UMass, 1996

Marc Jackson, Temple, 1997

Cuttino Mobley, Rhode Island, 1998

David West, Xavier, 2001 through 2003

Jameer Nelson, Saint Joseph's, 2004

Steven Smith, La Salle, 2005 and 2005

Stéphane Lasme, UMass, 2007

Gary Forbes, UMass, 2008

DeAndre' Bembry, Saint Joseph's, 2016

T. J. Cline, Richmond, 2017

Obi Toppin, Dayton, 2020

Bones Hyland, VCU, 2021

DaRon Holmes II, Dayton, 2024

Season	Player	School	Position	Class	Reference
1976–77	Norm Nixon	Duquesne	PG	Senior	[1]
1977–78	James Bailey	Rutgers	F / C	Junior	[2]
1978–79	James Bailey (2)	Rutgers	F / C	Senior	[3]
1979–80	Earl Belcher	St. Bonaventure	F	Junior	[4]
1980–81	Earl Belcher (2)	St. Bonaventure	F	Senior	[5]
1981–82	Greg Jones	West Virginia	PG	Junior	[6]
1982–83†	Roy Hinson	Rutgers	C	Senior	[7]
	Greg Jones (2)	West Virginia	PG	Senior	[7]
1983–84	Terence Stansbury	Temple	SG	Senior	[8]
1984–85	Granger Hall	Temple	C	Senior	[9]
1985–86	Maurice Martin	Saint Joseph's	SF / SG	Senior	[10]
1986–87	Nate Blackwell	Temple	G	Senior	[11]
1987–88	Tim Perry	Temple	PF	Senior	[12]
1988–89	Mark Macon	Temple	SG	Sophomore	[13]
1989–90	Kenny Green	Rhode Island	C	Senior	[14]
1990–91	Keith Hughes	Rutgers	PF	Senior	[15]
1991–92	Harper Williams	UMass	PF / C	Junior	[16]
1992–93	Aaron McKie	Temple	PG / SG	Junior	[17]
1993–94	Eddie Jones	Temple	SG	Senior	[18]
1994–95	Lou Roe	UMass	F	Senior	[19]
1995–96	Marcus Camby*	UMass	C	Junior	[20]
1996–97	Marc Jackson	Temple	C	Senior	[21]
1997–98	Cuttino Mobley	Rhode Island	PG / SG	Senior	[22]
1998–99	Shawnta Rogers	George Washington	PG	Senior	[23]
1999–00	Pepe Sánchez	Temple	PG	Senior	[24]
2000–01	David West	Xavier	PF	Sophomore	[25]
2001–02	David West (2)	Xavier	PF	Junior	[25]
2002–03	David West (3)	Xavier	PF	Senior	[25]
2003–04	Jameer Nelson*	Saint Joseph's	PG	Senior	[26]
2004–05†	Pat Carroll	Saint Joseph's	SG	Senior	[27]
	Steven Smith	La Salle	SF	Junior	[27]
2005–06	Steven Smith (2)	La Salle	SF	Senior	[28]
2006–07	Stéphane Lasme	UMass	PF	Senior	[29]
2007–08	Gary Forbes	UMass	SF / SG	Senior	[30]
2008–09	Ahmad Nivins	Saint Joseph's	PF / C	Senior	[31]
2009–10	Kevin Anderson	Richmond	PG	Junior	[32]
2010–11	Tu Holloway	Xavier	PG	Junior	[33]
2011–12	Andrew Nicholson	St. Bonaventure	PF	Senior	[34]
2012–13	Khalif Wyatt	Temple	SG	Senior	[35]
2013–14	Jordair Jett	Saint Louis	SG	Senior	[36]
2014–15	Tyler Kalinoski	Davidson	PG	Senior	[37]
2015–16	DeAndre' Bembry	Saint Joseph's	F	Junior	[38]
2016–17	T. J. Cline	Richmond	F / C	Senior	[39]
2017–18†	Jaylen Adams	St. Bonaventure	PG	Senior	[40]
	Peyton Aldridge	Davidson	SF	Senior	[40]
2018–19	Jón Axel Guðmundsson[a]	Davidson	G	Junior	[41]
2019–20	Obi Toppin*	Dayton	F	Sophomore	[42]
2020–21	Bones Hyland	VCU	G	Sophomore	[43]
2021–22	Luka Brajkovic	Davidson	PF	Senior	[44]
2022–23	Ace Baldwin Jr.	VCU	PG	Junior	[45]
2023–24†	DaRon Holmes II	Dayton	PF	Junior	[46]
	Jordan King	Richmond	PG	Graduate	[46]
2024–25	Max Shulga	VCU	PG / SG	Graduate	[47]

Winners by school

School (year joined)	Winners	Years
Temple (1982)[b]	10	1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2013
Saint Joseph's (1982)	5	1986, 2004, 2005†, 2009, 2016
UMass (1976)[c]	5	1992, 1995, 1996, 2007, 2008
Davidson (2014)	4	2015, 2018†, 2019, 2022
Rutgers (1976)[d]	4	1978, 1979, 1983†, 1991
St. Bonaventure (1979)	4	1980, 1981, 2012, 2018†
Xavier (1995)[e]	4	2001, 2002, 2003, 2011
Richmond (2001)	3	2010, 2017, 2024†
VCU (2012)	3	2021, 2023, 2025
Dayton (1995)	2	2020, 2024†
La Salle (1995)	2	2005†, 2006
Rhode Island (1980)	2	1990, 1998
West Virginia (1976)[d]	2	1982, 1983
Duquesne (1976)[f]	1	1977
George Washington (1976)	1	1999
Saint Louis (2005)	1	2014
Butler (2012)[e]	0	—
Charlotte (2005)[g]	0	—
Fordham (1995)	0	—
George Mason (2013)	0	—
Loyola Chicago (2022)	0	—

1. The 2018–19 award winner is properly referred to as Jón Axel. He is a native of Iceland, in which the standard naming system does not include family names, instead using one or more given names followed by a patronymic (as in his case) or sometimes a matronymic.
2. Temple University left in 2013 to join the American Athletic Conference (The American).
3. The University of Massachusetts Amherst, known for sports purposes interchangeably as UMass and Massachusetts, leaves the A-10 in 2025 for the Mid-American Conference.
4. Rutgers University and West Virginia University left in 1995 to join their football teams in the original Big East. Rutgers remained in The American in the 2013–14 season before leaving for the Big Ten Conference. West Virginia left in 2012 to join the Big 12 Conference.
5. Xavier University and Butler University left in July 2013 to join the current Big East Conference, the latter after only one season in the A-10.
6. Duquesne University left the A–10 for the Midwestern Collegiate Conference during the 1992–93 academic year, but returned the following season.
7. The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, known for sports purposes as Charlotte, left in 2013 for Conference USA.