OSU's Turner is AP's Player of the Year

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Ohio State junior swingman Evan Turner is the runaway choice as The Associated Press' college basketball player of the year.

The 6-foot-7 Turner, who averaged 20.3 points, 9.2 rebounds and 5.9 assists, received 54 votes from the 65-member national media panel.

Turner missed six games after breaking bones in his back when he fell after a dunk in December. The Buckeyes went .500 without him and then went on to the Big Ten title after he returned.

He is the first Ohio State player to win the award since Gary Bradds in 1964. Jerry Lucas of the Buckeyes won it in 1961 and 1962.

Kentucky freshman John Wall received nine votes, while Da'Sean Butler of West Virginia and Luke Harangody of Notre Dame each got one.

College Basketball Player of the Year List
 

• 2010 -- Evan Turner, Ohio State
• 2009 -- Blake Griffin, Oklahoma
• 2008 -- Tyler Hansbrough, North Carolina
• 2007 -- Kevin Durant, Texas
• 2006 -- J.J. Redick, Duke
• 2005 -- Andrew Bogut, Utah
• 2004 -- Jameer Nelson, Saint Joseph's
• 2003 -- David West, Xavier
• 2002 -- Jason Williams, Duke
• 2001 -- Shane Battier, Duke
• 2000 -- Kenyon Martin, Cincinnati
• 1999 -- Elton Brand, Duke
• 1998 -- Antawn Jamison, North Carolina
• 1997 -- Tim Duncan, Wake Forest
• 1996 -- Marcus Camby, Massachusetts
• 1995 -- Joe Smith, Maryland
• 1994 -- Glenn Robinson, Purdue
• 1993 -- Calbert Cheaney, Indiana
• 1992 -- Christian Laettner, Duke
• 1991 -- Shaquille O'Neal, LSU
• 1990 -- Lionel Simmons, La Salle
• 1989 -- Sean Elliott, Arizona
• 1988 -- Hersey Hawkins, Bradley
• 1987 -- David Robinson, Navy
• 1986 -- Walter Berry, St. John's
• 1985 -- Patrick Ewing, Georgetown
• 1984 -- Michael Jordan, North Carolina
• 1983 -- Ralph Sampson, Virginia
• 1982 -- Ralph Sampson, Virginia
• 1981 -- Ralph Sampson, Virginia
• 1980 -- Mark Aguirre, DePaul
• 1979 -- Larry Bird, Indiana State
• 1978 -- Butch Lee, Marquette
• 1977 -- Marques Johnson, UCLA
• 1976 -- Scott May, Indiana
• 1975 -- David Thompson, North Carolina State
• 1974 -- David Thompson, North Carolina State
• 1973 -- Bill Walton, UCLA
• 1972 -- Bill Walton, UCLA
• 1971 -- Austin Carr, Notre Dame
• 1970 -- Pete Maravich, Louisiana State
• 1969 -- Lew Alcindor, UCLA
• 1968 -- Elvin Hayes, Houston
• 1967 -- Lew Alcindor, UCLA
• 1966 -- Cazzie Russell, Michigan
• 1965 -- Bill Bradley, Princeton
• 1964 -- Gary Bradds, Ohio State
• 1963 -- Art Heyman, Duke
• 1962 -- Jerry Lucas, Ohio State
• 1961 -- Jerry Lucas, Ohio State