Awarded for | the nation's top male small forward in NCAA basketball |
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Country | United States |
Presented by | Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame |
History | |
First award | 2015 |
Most recent | Dalton Knecht,Tennessee |
Website | Official website |
TheJulius Erving Small Forward of the Year Award is an annualbasketball award given by theNaismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame to the top men'scollegiatesmall forward. Following the success of theBob Cousy Award which had been awarded since 2004, the award was one of four new awards (along with theJerry West Award,Karl Malone Award, andKareem Abdul-Jabbar Award) created as part of the inaugural College Basketball Awards show in 2015.[1] It is named afterJulius Erving, aNaismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductee who played the position. The inaugural winner wasStanley Johnson ofArizona.[2] The school with the most all-time winners isVillanova, with three.
* | Awarded a national player of the year award: 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 |
Season | Player | School | Class | Reference |
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2014–15 | Stanley Johnson | Arizona | Freshman | [2] |
2015–16 | Denzel Valentine* | Michigan State | Senior | [3] |
2016–17 | Josh Hart | Villanova | Senior | [4] |
2017–18 | Mikal Bridges | Villanova | Junior | [5] |
2018–19 | Rui Hachimura | Gonzaga | Junior | [6] |
2019–20 | Saddiq Bey | Villanova | Sophomore | [7] |
2020–21 | Corey Kispert | Gonzaga | Senior | [8] |
2021–22 | Wendell Moore Jr. | Duke | Junior | [9] |
2022–23 | Jalen Wilson | Kansas | Junior | [10] |
2023–24 | Dalton Knecht | Tennessee | Graduate | [11] |
School | Winners | Years |
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Villanova | 3 | 2017, 2018, 2020 |
Gonzaga | 2 | 2019, 2021 |
Arizona | 1 | 2015 |
Duke | 1 | 2022 |
Kansas | 1 | 2023 |
Michigan State | 1 | 2016 |
Tennessee | 1 | 2024 |