List of Southwest Player of the Year winners

The Southwest Conference (SWC) awarded Southwest Player of the Year honors every season from 1957-58 through 1995-96. Two players won the award three times each – Texas A&M’s Carroll Broussard (1960-62) and SMU‘s Gene Phillips (1969-71) – while six others won it twice each. Texas A&M is the program with the most winners (ten), followed by Texas and SMU (eight each).

Year	Player(s)	School(s)
1958	Rick Herrscher	SMU
1959	H. E. Kirchner	TCU
1960	Carroll Broussard	Texas A&M
1961	Carroll Broussard (2)	Texas A&M (2)
1962	Carroll Broussard (3)	Texas A&M (3)
1963	Bennie Lenox	Texas A&M (4)
1964	Bennie Lenox (2)	Texas A&M (5)
1965	John Beasley	Texas A&M (6)
1966	John Beasley (2)	Texas A&M (7)
1967	Denny Holman	SMU (2)
1968	Billy Arnold	Texas
1969	Ronnie Peret	Texas A&M (8)
	Gene Phillips	SMU (3)
	Greg Williams	Rice
1970	Gene Phillips (2)	SMU (4)
1971	Goo Kennedy	TCU (2)
	Gene Phillips (3)	SMU (5)
1972	Larry Robinson	Texas (2)
1973	Martin Terry	Arkansas
1974	Larry Robinson (2)	Texas (3)
1975	Sonny Parker	Texas A&M (9)
1976	Sonny Parker (2)	Texas A&M (10)
	Ira Terrell	SMU (6)
1977	Otis Birdsong	Houston
1978	Ron Brewer	Arkansas (2)
1979	Sidney Moncrief	Arkansas (3)
1980	Ron Baxter	Texas (4)
	Terry Teagle	Baylor
1981	Rob Williams	Houston (2)
1982	Ricky Pierce	Rice (2)
1983	Clyde Drexler	Houston (3)
	Michael Young	Houston (4)
1984	Akeem Olajuwon	Houston (5)
1985	Bubba Jennings	Texas Tech
1986	John Brownlee	Texas (5)
1987	Carven Holcombe	TCU (3)
1988	Carlton McKinney	SMU (7)
1989	Travis Mays	Texas (6)
1990	Travis Mays (2)	Texas (7)
1991	Todd Day	Arkansas (4)
	Oliver Miller	Arkansas (5)
1992	Will Flemons	Texas Tech (2)
	David Wesley	Baylor (2)
1993	Will Flemons (2)	Texas Tech (3)
	Bo Outlaw	Houston (6)
	Mike Wilson	SMU (8)
1994	B. J. Tyler	Texas (8)
1995	Kurt Thomas	TCU (4)
1996	Jason Sasser	Texas Tech (4)

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