The Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Center of the Year Award is an annual basketball award given by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame to the top men's collegiate center. Following the success of the Bob Cousy Award which had been awarded since 2004, the award was one of four new awards (along with the Jerry West Award, Julius Erving Award and Karl Malone Award) created as part of the inaugural College Basketball Awards show in 2015. It is named after Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductee who played the position. The inaugural winner was Frank Kaminsky of Wisconsin.
Key * Awarded a national player of the year award that same season: Sporting News; Oscar Robertson Trophy; Associated Press; NABC; Naismith; Wooden Player (X) Denotes the number of times the player has been awarded the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar at that point
Winners
Season Player School Class Reference 2014–15 * Wisconsin 2015–16 Utah 2016–17 Gonzaga 2017–18 Seton Hall 2018–19 Wisconsin 2019–20 Iowa 2020–21 * (2) Iowa 2021–22 * Kentucky 2022–23 * Purdue 2023–24 * (2) Purdue 2024–25 Creighton 2025–26 St. John's
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