Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Freshman of the Year

The Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Freshman of the Year is a basketball award given to the Big Ten Conference's most outstanding freshman player. The award was first given following the 1985–86 season.

Big Ten Conference Men's Basketball Freshman of the Year

Awarded for	the most outstanding men's basketball freshman player in the Big Ten Conference
Country	United States
History
First award	1986
Most recent	Jalen Hood-Schifino, Indiana

Indiana has the record for the most winners with eleven.

Key

†	Co-Freshman of the Year
*	Declared for NBA draft after freshman year

Winners

Season	Player	School	Reference
1985–86	Gary Grant	Michigan	^[1]
1986–87	Dean Garrett^[a]	Indiana	^[2]
1987–88	Jay Edwards	Indiana	^[3]
1988–89	Eric Anderson	Indiana	^[4]
1989–90	Jim Jackson	Ohio State	^[5]
1990–91	Damon Bailey	Indiana	^[6]
1991–92	Chris Webber^[b]	Michigan	^[7]
1992–93	Greg Simpson	Ohio State	^[8]
1993–94	Jess Settles	Iowa	^[9]
1994–95	Maurice Taylor	Michigan	^[10]
1995–96	Sam Okey	Wisconsin	^[11]
1996–97	A. J. Guyton	Indiana	^[12]
1997–98	Michael Redd	Ohio State	^[13]
1998–99	Cory Bradford	Illinois	^[14]
1999–00^†	Brian Cook	Illinois	^[15]
	LaVell Blanchard	Michigan	^[15]
2000–01	Jared Jeffries	Indiana	^[16]
2001–02	Rick Rickert	Minnesota	^[16]
2002–03	Daniel Horton	Michigan	^[17]
2003–04	Kris Humphries*	Minnesota	^[18]
2004–05	D. J. White	Indiana	^[19]
2005–06	Jamelle Cornley	Penn State	^[20]
2006–07	Greg Oden*	Ohio State	^[21]
2007–08	Eric Gordon*	Indiana	^[22]
2008–09	William Buford	Ohio State	^[23]
2009–10	D. J. Richardson	Illinois	^[24]
2010–11	Jared Sullinger	Ohio State	^[25]
2011–12	Cody Zeller	Indiana	^[26]
2012–13	Gary Harris	Michigan State	^[27]
2013–14	Noah Vonleh*	Indiana	^[28]
2014–15	D'Angelo Russell*	Ohio State	^[29]
2015–16	Ethan Happ	Wisconsin	^[30]
2016–17	Miles Bridges	Michigan State	^[31]
2017–18	Jaren Jackson Jr.*	Michigan State	^[32]
2018–19	Ignas Brazdeikis*	Michigan	^[33]
2019–20	Kofi Cockburn	Illinois	^[34]
2020–21	Hunter Dickinson	Michigan	^[35]
2021–22	Malaki Branham*	Ohio State	^[36]
2022–23	Jalen Hood-Schifino*	Indiana	^[37]

Winners by school

School (year joined)	Winners	Years
Indiana (1900)	11	1987^[a], 1988, 1989, 1991, 1997, 2001, 2005, 2008, 2012, 2014, 2023
Ohio State (1912)	8	1990, 1993, 1998, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2022
Michigan (1896)	7	1986, 1992^[b], 1995, 2000^†, 2003, 2019, 2021
Illinois (1896)	4	1999, 2000^†, 2010, 2020
Michigan State (1953)	3	2013, 2017, 2018
Minnesota (1896)	2	2002, 2004
Wisconsin (1896)	2	1996, 2016
Iowa (1900)	1	1994
Penn State (1993)	1	2006
Maryland (2014)	0	—
Nebraska (2011)	0	—
Northwestern (1896)	0	—
Purdue (1896)	0	—
Rutgers (2014)	0	—

Footnotes

• ^a During the 1986-1987 season Garrett was not a freshman but was a junior college transfer.^[38]
• ^b Webber's selection was later vacated as a result of sanctions due to NCAA violations.

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