The Lt. Frank J. Haggerty Award is given to the All-New York Metropolitan NCAA Division I men's college basketball player of the year, presented by the National Invitation Tournament (NIT) and the Met Basketball Writers Association (MBWA). First presented in 1936, it is arguably the oldest and most prestigious award given to a metropolitan area player. Two schools with previous winners are no longer classified as Division I – CCNY and NYU are now Division III and are therefore ineligible to have future winners.
Awarded for | the New York area's top men's Division I basketball player |
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Location | New York metropolitan area |
Country | United States |
Presented by | NIT; MBWA |
History | |
First award | 1936 |
Most recent | Ron Harper Jr., Rutgers |
The award has gone to players from 15 Division I schools. St. John's University in Jamaica, New York has the most at 27, roughly twice the 15 awards received by players from number two Seton Hall University.
Three players won the award three times: Jim McMillian from Columbia University (1968–1970), Chris Mullin of St. John's (1983–1985) and Charles Jenkins of Hofstra (2009–2011). McMillian would go on to win the 1972 NBA Championship with the Los Angeles Lakers; Mullin went on to win two Olympic gold medals (1984, 1992) with Team USA, was a five-time NBA All-Star and was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2011; and Jenkins has played in the NBA and Europe.
Key
† | Co-Players of the Year |
* | Awarded a national Player of the Year award: Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year (until 1979) UPI College Basketball Player of the Year (1954–96) Naismith College Player of the Year (after 1969) John R. Wooden Award (after 1976) |
Player (X) | Denotes the number of times the player has been awarded the Haggerty Award |
Winners
Winners by school
School | Winners | Years |
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St. John's | 27 | 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1949, 1952, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1967, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1984†, 1985, 1986, 1987†, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2014, 2015, 2018 |
Seton Hall | 15 | 1953, 1964, 1979, 1982, 1988, 1989, 1993, 1994†, 1996, 2004†, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021 |
Hofstra | 7 | 1956, 1977, 2000, 2001, 2009, 2010, 2011 |
LIU Brooklyn | 7 | 1936, 1937, 1939, 1950, 1966, 1995, 1997 |
Iona | 6 | 1965, 1980, 1981, 1984†, 2012, 2013 |
NYU | 6 | 1940, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1960, 1963 |
Columbia | 5 | 1951, 1957, 1968, 1969, 1970 |
Fordham | 5 | 1954, 1955, 1958, 1971, 1972† |
Manhattan | 4 | 1972†, 1974, 2003, 2004† |
Rutgers | 4 | 1975, 1976, 2006, 2022 |
Marist | 2 | 1994†, 2007 |
Army | 1 | 1987† |
CCNY | 1 | 1938 |
Rider | 1 | 2008 |
Saint Peter's | 1 | 2005 |
References
- General
- "All-Time Haggerty Award Winners" (PDF). Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association. April 30, 2019. Retrieved April 30, 2019.
- Specific
- ^ Brennan, Sean (15 April 2009). "Day of Pride as Hofstra's Charles Jenkins wins Haggerty Award, Tom Pecora named Coach of the Year". New York Daily News. Retrieved 20 April 2010.
- ^ Jenkins Repeats as Haggerty Award Winner
- ^ Jenkins Wins Haggerty Award For Third Straight Year
- ^ Iona’s Machado highlights Haggerty Awards dinner
- ^ Iona's Jones wins Haggerty Award
- ^ St. John’s Guard D'Angelo Harrison Wins Haggerty Award
- ^ Sir’Dominic Pointer wins Haggerty Award, Glenn Braica and Jim Engles split All-Met Coach of the Year honors
- ^ Seton Hall's Whitehead wins Haggerty Award
- ^ "Seton Hall's Angel Delgado wins Haggerty Award".
- ^ "Shamorie Ponds on 'hard' NBA decision, prestigious award". 25 April 2018.
- ^ "Seton Hall basketball: Myles Powell wins Haggerty Award as metro area's top player".
- ^ "Sandro Mamukelashvili Wins 2021 Haggerty Met Player of the Year Award".
- ^ "2022 MBWA AWARDS Rutgers' Harper to Hold Haggerty Award; Holloway Named Div. I Coach of the Year; 2021-22 All-Met Teams Revealed".