Metro Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year

Metro Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year
Awarded for	the most outstanding basketball player in the Metro Conference
Country	United States
First awarded	1977
Last awarded	1995
Currently held by	Jarvis Lang, Charlotte

The Metro Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year was a basketball award given to the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Athletic (Metro) Conference's most outstanding player. The award was first given following the 1976–77 season and was discontinued after the 1994–95 season. In 1995 the Metro Conference merged with the Great Midwest Conference to form Conference USA.

There three ties in the award's history—1978, 1981 and 1988. One player, Darrell Griffith of Louisville, was also named the National Player of the Year (1980) by being presented the John R. Wooden Award.

Louisville represents the most all-time winners of the Metro Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year with eight. The second most belong to Southern Mississippi with three (all of which belong to Clarence Weatherspoon). Weatherspoon was the only three-time winner of the award, while two others earned it twice (Keith Lee and Clifford Rozier).

Key

†	Co-Players of the Year
*	Awarded a national Player of the Year award: the Naismith College Player of the Year or the John R. Wooden Award
Player (X)	Denotes the number of times the player has been awarded the Player of the Year award

Winners

Darrell Griffith was the only Metro Conference Player of the Year (POY) to also win a National POY award – the Wooden Award in 1979–80.

George McCloud won the award in 1989 as a player for Florida State University.

Season	Player	School	Position	Class	Reference
1976–77	Yoder, GaryGary Yoder	Cincinnati	Shooting guard/Small forward	4 !Senior
1977–78†	Davis, HarryHarry Davis	Florida State	Small forward	4 !Senior
1977–78†	Wilson, RickRick Wilson	Louisville	Shooting guard/Point guard	4 !Senior
1978–79	Cummings, PatPat Cummings	Cincinnati	Center	4 !Senior
1979–80	Griffith, DarrellDarrell Griffith*	Louisville	Shooting guard	4 !Senior
1980–81†	Burns, DavidDavid Burns	Saint Louis	Point guard	4 !Senior
1980–81†	Smith, DerekDerek Smith	Louisville	Shooting guard	3 !Junior
1981–82	Lee, KeithKeith Lee	Memphis State[d]	Power forward/Center	1 !Freshman
1982–83	McCray, RodneyRodney McCray	Louisville	Small forward	4 !Senior
1983–84	Williams, JohnJohn Williams	Tulane	Power forward/Center	3 !Junior
1984–85	Lee, KeithKeith Lee (2)	Memphis State	Power forward/Center	4 !Senior
1985–86	Curry, DellDell Curry	Virginia Tech	Small forward	4 !Senior
1986–87	Crook, HerbertHerbert Crook	Louisville	Small forward/Shooting guard	3 !Junior
1987–88†	Coles, BimboBimbo Coles	Virginia Tech	Point guard	2 !Sophomore
1987–88†	Ellison, PervisPervis Ellison	Louisville	Center	3 !Junior
1988–89	McCloud, GeorgeGeorge McCloud	Florida State	Shooting guard/Small forward	4 !Senior
1989–90	Weatherspoon, ClarenceClarence Weatherspoon	Southern Mississippi	Power forward	2 !Sophomore
1990–91	Weatherspoon, ClarenceClarence Weatherspoon (2)	Southern Mississippi	Power forward	3 !Junior
1991–92	Weatherspoon, ClarenceClarence Weatherspoon (3)	Southern Mississippi	Power forward	4 !Senior
1992–93	Rozier, CliffordClifford Rozier	Louisville	Center	3 !Junior
1993–94	Rozier, CliffordClifford Rozier (2)	Louisville	Center	4 !Senior
1994–95	Lang, JarvisJarvis Lang	Charlotte	Small forward	4 !Senior

Winners by school

School (year joined)	Winners	Years
Louisville (1975)[a]	8	1978†, 1980, 1981†, 1983, 1987, 1988†, 1993, 1994
Southern Mississippi (1982)[b]	3	1990, 1991, 1992
Cincinnati (1975)[a]	2	1977, 1979
Florida State (1976)[c]	2	1978†, 1989
Memphis State (1975)[b]	2	1982, 1985
Virginia Tech (1979)	2	1986, 1988†
Saint Louis (1975)[a]	1	1981†
Tulane (1975)[b]	1	1984
Charlotte (1991)[a]	1	1995

See also

• Metro Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
• Conference USA Men's Basketball Player of the Year

Footnotes

• ^a School was charter member of Conference USA but has since left for another conference.
• ^b School remains in the reunified Conference USA.
• ^c Florida State University left to join the Atlantic Coast Conference in 1991.
• ^d Memphis State University is now called the University of Memphis.

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