Summit League Men's Basketball Player of the Year
The Summit League Men's Basketball Player of the Year is an annual award given to the most outstanding men's basketball player in the Summit League. The award was first given following the 1982–83 season. Two players, Caleb Green of Oral Roberts and Mike Daum of South Dakota State, have each won the award three times. Five other players have won the award twice: Jon Collins of Eastern Illinois, Tony Bennett of Green Bay, Bryce Drew of Valparaiso, Keith Benson of Oakland, and Max Abmas of Oral Roberts.
Tony Bennett also won the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award in 1992.
Luboš Bartoň won in 2002 while at Valparaiso.
Two-time winner Oakland's Keith Benson also took home the 2010 Lou Henson Award.
Oral Roberts' Max Abmas won in 2021 after leading the NCAA in scoring. He won the award again two years later.
Bryce Homer Drew is an American college basketball coach and former player who is the head coach of the Grand Canyon Antelopes. Previously he served as the head coach of the Vanderbilt Commodores and in the same capacity at his alma mater, Valparaiso, having succeeded his father, Homer Drew. Drew has led his teams to the NCAA tournament on four occasions, including at least once at each of the three schools where he has been the head coach.
Drew at GCU practice