Footnotes
- a If no special demarcation indicates which award the player won that season, then he had earned all of the awards available for that year.
- b Chris Jackson changed his name to Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf in 1991 after converting to Islam.
- c In 1976–77, two Tennessee players were chosen as the SEC Player of the Year—Ernie Grunfeld and Bernard King were selected by the Associated Press, and Grunfeld was also chosen by United Press International. Both players are counted in the total Player of the Year Award per school tally.
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