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Atlantic 10 Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year

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Country
  
United States

First awarded
  
1977

Atlantic 10 Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year

Awarded for
  
the most outstanding basketball player in the Atlantic 10 Conference

Currently held by
  
DeAndre' Bembry, Saint Joseph's

The Atlantic 10 (A–10) Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year is a basketball award given to the Atlantic 10 Conference's most outstanding player. The award was first given following the conference's inaugural 1976–77 season, when the conference was officially known as the Eastern Collegiate Basketball League but popularly known as the Eastern 8. David West of Xavier is the only player to have won the award three times (2001–03). Four other players—James Bailey, Earl Belcher, Greg Jones and Steven Smith—have won the award twice. Two players—Marcus Camby (1996) and Jameer Nelson (2004)—have also won the award in the same season that they were named the Naismith College Player of the Year or received the John R. Wooden Award, the nation's two most prestigious men's college basketball awards.

As of 2015, Temple has the most all-time winners with ten, but the Owls left for the American Athletic Conference in July 2013. Among schools remaining in the conference beyond 2013, Saint Joseph's and UMass have the most winners, with five each. There have been two ties in the award's history (1983, 2005). Four current member schools have had no winners—Dayton, Fordham, George Mason, and VCU. However, of these schools, only Dayton and Fordham were A-10 members before 2012.

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Atlantic 10 Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year Wikipedia