The Julius Erving Small Forward of the Year Award is an annual basketball award given by the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame to the top men's collegiate small forward. 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, Karl Malone Award, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award) created as part of the inaugural College Basketball Awards show in 2015. It is named after Julius Erving, a Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductee who played the position. The inaugural winner was Stanley Johnson of Arizona. The school with the most all-time winners is Villanova, with three.
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 Julius Erving Award at that point
Winners
Season Player School Class Reference 2014–15 Arizona 2015–16 * Michigan State 2016–17 Villanova 2017–18 Villanova 2018–19 Gonzaga 2019–20 Villanova 2020–21 Gonzaga 2021–22 Duke 2022–23 Kansas 2023–24 Tennessee 2024–25 * Duke 2025–26 BYU
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