Big West Player of the Year

List of Big West Player of the Year winners

The Big West Conference has awarded Big West Player of the Year honors every season since 1969-70, when the league was known as the Pacific Coast Athletic Association (PCAA). Eight players have won the award twice, the most recent being Cal State Northridge‘s Lamine Diane (2019-20). Long Beach State is also the program with the most winners (thirteen), followed by former member UNLV (ten) and current members UC Santa Barbara (eight) and UC Irvine (six). See also: Big West Coach of the Year

Year Player(s) School(s)
1970 George Trapp Long Beach State
1971 George Trapp (2) Long Beach State (2)
1972 Ed Ratleff Long Beach State (3)
1973 Ed Ratleff (2) Long Beach State (4)
1974 Leonard Gray Long Beach State (5)
1975 Bob Gross Long Beach State (6)
1976 Greg Bunch Cal State Fullerton
Steve Copp San Diego State
1977 Lloyd McMillian Long Beach State (7)
1978 Joel Kramer San Diego State (2)
1979 Ron Cornelius Pacific
1980 Dean Hunger Utah State
1981 Kevin Magee UC Irvine
1982 Kevin Magee (2) UC Irvine (2)
1983 Sidney Green UNLV
1984 Richie Adams UNLV (2)
1985 Richie Adams (2) UNLV (3)
1986 Greg Grant Utah State (2)
Anthony Jones UNLV (4)
1987 Armen Gilliam UNLV (5)
1988 Brian Shaw UC Santa Barbara
1989 Stacey Augmon UNLV (6)
1990 Larry Johnson UNLV (7)
1991 Larry Johnson (2) UNLV (8)
1992 Lucius Davis UC Santa Barbara (2)
1993 J. R. Rider UNLV (9)
1994 Kebu Stewart UNLV (10)
1995 Eric Franson Utah State (3)
1996 Raimonds Miglinieks UC Irvine (3)
1997 Faron Hand Nevada
1998 Michael Olowokandi Pacific (2)
1999 Roberto Bergersen Boise State
2000 Mate Milisa Long Beach State (8)
2001 Jerry Green UC Irvine (4)
2002 Jerry Green (2) UC Irvine (5)
2003 Branduinn Fullove UC Santa Barbara (3)
2004 Miah Davis Pacific (3)
2005 David Doubley Pacific (4)
2006 Christian Maråker Pacific (5)
2007 Aaron Nixon Long Beach State (9)
2008 Scott Cutley Cal State Fullerton (2)
Alex Harris UC Santa Barbara (4)
2009 Josh Akognon Cal State Fullerton (3)
2010 Orlando Johnson UC Santa Barbara (5)
2011 Casper Ware Long Beach State (10)
2012 Casper Ware (2) Long Beach State (11)
2013 James Ennis Long Beach State (12)
2014 Alan Williams UC Santa Barbara (6)
2015 Corey Hawkins UC Davis
2016 Stefan Janković Hawaii
2017 Luke Nelson UC Irvine (6)
2018 T. J. Shorts UC Davis (2)
2019 Lamine Diane Cal State Northridge
2020 Lamine Diane (2) Cal State Northridge (2)
2021 JaQuori McLaughlin UC Santa Barbara (7)
2022 Colin Slater Long Beach State (13)
2023 Ajay Mitchell UC Santa Barbara (8)
2024 Elijah Pepper UC Davis (3)
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