The Bob Cousy Award, sponsored by the College of the Holy Cross, is an annual basketball award given by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame to the top men's collegiate point guard. It is named after six-time National Basketball Association (NBA) champion Bob Cousy, who played point guard for the Boston Celtics from 1950 to 1963. Cousy won all of his championships with the Celtics.
Annually, a list of players is nominated by college head coaches, members of College Sports Communicators (CSC), and members of the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC). A screening committee of CSC members reviews the nominations, and selects 16 players from each division (12 from National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I, and two each from Division II and III). A selection committee appointed by the Hall then selects the winner. This 30-member committee is composed of Hall of Famers, head coaches, sports information directors, the media, and Cousy himself.
Key * Awarded a national player of the year award that same season: Sporting News; Oscar Robertson Trophy; Associated Press; NABC; Naismith; Wooden
Winners
Season Player School Class Reference 2003–04 * Saint Joseph's 2004–05 North Carolina 2005–06 * Illinois 2006–07 Texas A&M 2007–08 Texas 2008–09 North Carolina 2009–10 Maryland 2010–11 UConn 2011–12 North Carolina 2012–13 * Michigan 2013–14 UConn 2014–15 Utah 2015–16 Kentucky 2016–17 * Kansas 2017–18 * Villanova 2018–19 Murray State 2019–20 Oregon 2020–21 Illinois 2021–22 Villanova 2022–23 Kansas State 2023–24 UConn 2024–25 Purdue 2025–26 Arkansas
See also Nancy Lieberman Award – the counterpart to the Bob Cousy Award given to the nation's top NCAA female point guard
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