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.

NABC Defensive Player of the Year

Awarded for	the most outstanding men's defensive basketball player in NCAA Division I
Country	United States
Presented by	NABC
History
First award	1987
Most recent	Ryan Kalkbrenner, Creighton
Website	Official website

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.^[1] Hasheem Thabeet, the 2008 and 2009 winner, is a native of Tanzania.^[2]

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

Tommy Amaker, Duke, 1987

Billy King, Duke, 1988

Stacey Augmon, UNLV, 1989 through 1991

Tim Duncan, Wake Forest, 1995 through 1997

Shane Battier, Duke, 1999 through 2001

Emeka Okafor, UConn, 2003 and 2004

Sheldon Williams, Duke, 2005 and 2006

Jarvis Varnado, Mississippi State, 2010

Jeff Withey, Kansas, 2013

Aaron Craft, Ohio State, 2014

De'Andre Hunter, Virginia, 2019

Davion Mitchell, Baylor, 2021

Walker Kessler, Auburn, 2022

Jaylen Clark, UCLA, 2023

Season	Player	School	Position	Class	Reference
1986–87	Tommy Amaker	Duke	PG	Senior	[3]
1987–88	Billy King	Duke	F	Senior	[4]
1988–89	Stacey Augmon	UNLV	SF	Sophomore	[5]
1989–90	Stacey Augmon (2)	UNLV	SF	Junior	[5]
1990–91	Stacey Augmon (3)	UNLV	SF	Senior	[5]
1991–92	Alonzo Mourning	Georgetown	C	Senior	[6]
1992–93	Grant Hill	Duke	SF	Junior	[6]
1993–94	Jim McIlvaine	Marquette	C	Senior	[7]
1994–95	Tim Duncan	Wake Forest	C	Sophomore	[8]
1995–96	Tim Duncan (2)	Wake Forest	C	Junior	[8]
1996–97	Tim Duncan* (3)	Wake Forest	C	Senior	[8]
1997–98	Steve Wojciechowski	Duke	SG	Senior	[9]
1998–99	Shane Battier	Duke	SF	Sophomore	[10]
1999–00†	Shane Battier (2)	Duke	SF	Junior	[10]
	Kenyon Martin*	Cincinnati	C	Senior	[11]
2000–01	Shane Battier* (3)	Duke	SF	Senior	[10]
2001–02	John Linehan	Providence	PG	Senior	[12]
2002–03	Emeka Okafor	UConn	C	Sophomore	[13]
2003–04	Emeka Okafor* (2)	UConn	C	Junior	[14]
2004–05	Shelden Williams	Duke	PF	Junior	[15]
2005–06	Shelden Williams (2)	Duke	PF	Senior	[15]
2006–07	Greg Oden	Ohio State	C	Freshman	[16]
2007–08	Hasheem Thabeet	UConn	C	Sophomore	[17]
2008–09	Hasheem Thabeet (2)	UConn	C	Junior	[17]
2009–10	Jarvis Varnado	Mississippi State	C	Senior	[18]
2010–11	Kenneth Faried	Morehead State	PF / C	Senior	[19]
2011–12	Anthony Davis*	Kentucky	C	Freshman	[20]
2012–13†	Victor Oladipo*	Indiana	SG	Junior	[21]
	Jeff Withey	Kansas	C	Senior	[22]
2013–14	Aaron Craft	Ohio State	PG	Senior	[23]
2014–15	Willie Cauley-Stein	Kentucky	PF / C	Junior	[24]
2015–16	Malcolm Brogdon	Virginia	SG	Senior	[25]
2016–17	Jevon Carter	West Virginia	PG	Junior	[26]
2017–18	Jevon Carter (2)	West Virginia	PG	Senior	[26]
2018–19	De'Andre Hunter	Virginia	SF	Sophomore	[27]
2019–20	Udoka Azubuike	Kansas	C	Senior	[28]
2020–21	Davion Mitchell	Baylor	PG	Junior	[29]
2021–22	Walker Kessler	Auburn	C	Sophomore	[30]
2022–23	Jaylen Clark	UCLA	SG	Junior	[31]
2023–24	Jamal Shead	Houston	PG	Senior	[32]
2024–25	Ryan Kalkbrenner	Creighton	C	Senior	[33]

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†
Creighton	1	2025
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