Atlantic Sun Conference Basketball Player of the Year

Atlantic Sun Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year is the annual basketball award awarded to the best basketball player among students at the Atlantic Sun (A-Sun) Conference , which is part of the NCAA First Division. Voting is held among the head coaches of the teams included in the conference, in addition, the coaches give their votes after the regular season , but before the start of the playoff tournament, that is, in early March, and they can not vote for their own players. The award was established and first presented to Calvin Natt of the University of Northeast Louisiana in the 1978/79 season.

Atlantic Sun Conference Basketball Player of the Year
Atlantic Sun Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year
A country	USA
Type of
To whom is awarded	Top US Basketball Player at the Atlantic Sun Conference ( NCAA 1st Division)
Who is handed	Ch. trainers of the Trans America Athletic (TAAC) conference (1978-2001) Ch. Atlantic Sun (A-Sun) Coaches (2001—)
Statistics
Established
First award	1979 Calvin Natt , Northeast Louisiana
Last reward	2019 Harrison Matthews , Lipscomb

The conference officially began its activities in 1978, when it included eight teams. At first it was called the Trans America Athletic Conference (TAAC) , but in 2001, due to expansion by other sports, it got its current name. Over time, with the formation of new universities, the number of teams in the conference increased to twelve (currently there are eight). In the 2010s, a team from the University of Northern Kentucky was included in the conference, and teams from Campbell University, Belmont University, Mercer University and East Tennessee State University were also transferred to other conferences.

Only three players, Willie Jackson , Jeff Sanders and Dallas Moore , received this award several times, and only Jackson received it as much as three times. Once the winners of this award were two players at once (1998). More often than others, the winners of this prize were basketball players at Louisiana Centennial College (6 times), Charleston College , the University of South Georgia and the University of Mercer (4 times).