NCAA Division I basketball tournament Most Outstanding Player

College basketball award

The Most Outstanding Player (MOP) is awarded to one player after the conclusion of the championship game of the NCAA Division I men's and women's basketball tournaments. The award is also often referred to as the Final Four Most Outstanding Player, referencing the conclusion of the Final Four semifinals and championship games.^[1] Accredited media members at the championship game vote on the award.

The players that win the award are predominantly members of the championship team. However, ten men and one woman have won it as players on the losing squad. On the men's side, Houston's Akeem Olajuwon^[a] was the last to do so in 1983, while Virginia's Dawn Staley was the only woman to do so in 1991.^[1]

One player's award has been officially vacated (not recognized) by the NCAA, while another player's was vacated but later restored. In 1971, Howard Porter won the award despite Villanova losing to UCLA in the championship game.^[2] Villanova later vacated their entire season.^[2] Meanwhile, Luke Hancock had his MOP award stripped when the NCAA vacated Louisville's 2013 national championship.^[3] His award was restored in 2019 when a lawsuit brought against the NCAA was settled, clearing his name of any wrongdoing in the team scandal.^[3]

Key

Winners

Jimmy Hull, Ohio State, 1939

Butch Lee, Marquette, 1977

Cheryl Miller, USC, 1983 and 1984

Bobby Hurley, Duke, 1991

Ruth Riley, Notre Dame, 2001

Wayne Ellington, North Carolina, 2009

Breanna Stewart, UConn, 2013 through 2016

Tristen Newton, UConn, 2024

Kamilla Cardoso, South Carolina, 2024

• a Olajuwon later changed his first name's spelling from Akeem to Hakeem to use the original Arabic spelling.^[120]
• b Despite what some NCAA publications have printed many years later—that Kentucky's Bill Spivey won the 1951 award—no official vote occurred after the game and no player was officially presented as the winner.^[121][122] A news article printed by the Lexington Herald-Leader on April 7, 1951, titled "What Happened To NCAA's MVP Award?" detailed this mysterious divergence of precedent.^[123] Reporter Ed Ashford wrote, "For 11 consecutive years a most valuable player was chosen after the NCAA basketball tournament. However this year, for some unexplained reason, no poll was taken and there was no MVP honored. Whether the authorities just forgot about it or decided to eliminate balloting for the honor is not known. If a poll had been taken, it is likely that Kentucky would have garnered its third MVP award in the last four years. Alex Groza won the honor in 1948 and 1949 while Bill Spivey and Shelby Linville would have been strong contenders for the award this year."^[123]
• c Lew Alcindor later changed his named to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.^[124]
• d Porter scored 25 points in a losing effort but was still named the MOP. However, he was later ruled ineligible for the honor because he had signed a professional contract with the ABA's Pittsburgh Condors during the middle of his senior year.^[2] The NCAA vacated both Porter's award and Villanova's entire season.^[2]
• e Okafor graduated as a finance major in only three years.^[125] He was a senior academically in 2003–04, but was still considered a junior as it related to his athletic eligibility.^[125]
• f Hancock had his MOP award stripped when the NCAA vacated Louisville's 2013 national championship.^[3] His award was restored in 2019 when a lawsuit brought against the NCAA was settled, clearing his name of any wrongdoing in the team scandal.^[3]

See also

• Chuck Taylor Most Valuable Player Award – the equivalent award in NAIA men's basketball championships

References

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