The Oscar Robertson Trophy is given out annually to the most outstanding
NCAA Division I
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men's basketball player by the
U.S. Basketball Writers Association (USBWA), first presented in
1959
Events
January
* January 1 – Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance.
* January 2 – Soviet lunar probe Luna 1 is the first human-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reaches the ...
. It is one of the oldest national player of the year awards in
college basketball
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, behind only
''The Sporting News'' award (
1943
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured.
* January 4 †...
), the
Helms award (
1944
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 2 – WWII:
** Free France, Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command First Army (France), French Army B, part of the Sixt ...
), and the
UPI award (
1955). The original name was the USBWA College Player of the Year, but the men's player of the year award has been called the Oscar Robertson Trophy since 1998.
It was renamed to honor the college and professional legend, and first-ever recipient,
Oscar Robertson
Oscar Palmer Robertson (born November 24, 1938), nicknamed "the Big O", is an American former professional basketball player who played for the Cincinnati Royals and Milwaukee Bucks in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Robertson played ...
.
[ Five nominees are presented and the individual with the most votes receives the award during the NCAA tournament.
]
Key
Winners
* The Helms Foundation Player of the Year was first presented in 1944, when the Helms Athletic Foundation
The Helms Athletic Foundation, founded in 1936, was a Los Angeles-based organization dedicated to the promotion of athletics and sportsmanship. Paul H. Helms was the organization's founder and benefactor, funding the foundation via his owner ...
announced organization founder Bill Schroeder's player of the year selection for the 1943–44 season as well as his retroactive picks for each season from 1904–05
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to 1942–43.[
* Lew Alcindor changed his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 1971 after converting to ]Islam
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.
See also
* List of U.S. men's college basketball national player of the year awards
* USBWA National Freshman of the Year
References
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College basketball player of the year awards in the United States
Awards established in 1959