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March Madness has finally arrived, so get ready to fill out your brackets, place your bets, and watch seemingly endless amounts of college basketball.
One of the most popular NCAA Tournament props is betting on the Most Outstanding Player in the Final Four. Over the past few seasons, the last three recipients have been Jared Butler, Kyle Guy, and Adama Sanogo.
Who will be this year’s winner of the Most Outstanding Player award? Check out the list of favorites below to see our favorites picks to bring it home.
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4.5/5
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The national championship game is here, and the field is down to just a few players from both UConn and Purdue. The players we will cover below include Zach Edey, Donovan Clingan, and Stephon Castle.
The UConn Huskies are the favorite to win the NCAA Tournament, and this is the first back-to-back with the Florida Gators since the mid-2000s.
Clingan is a rising star on the team, averaging 12.5 points and 7.2 rebounds per game. In the Big East Conference championship game, he had 22 points, and against Stetson in the Round of 64, he had 19 with eight rebounds.
Edey, who’s second on this list, has definitely been the more productive player of the two, but Clingan is a member of the favored team, so it makes sense that he would be the odds-on favorite as the player who wins this award will likely be a member of the national title-winning squad.
In the Final Four against Alabama, Clingan had 18 points and five rebounds.
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During this tournament run, Edey has been unstoppable. He’s scored 140 points and no less than 20, which came in the Final Four against NC State. Before that, his lowest total was 23, and he had two games with 30 or more and one game with 40, which came against Tennessee in the Elite Eight. Rebound-wise, he’s not had less than a dozen in a game.
As mentioned above, Purdue is the underdog, so if they lose, he won’t win the award, most likely, and a UConn player will. However, if you think Purdue will win the game, Edey will 100 percent be the winner of this award.
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Castle is going to be a first-round pick in the NBA Draft, so what better way to go off into the sunset in college basketball than a national title win and a Most Outstanding Player award?
This postseason he’s been solid, coming off of a 21-point game in the Final Four. However, he had two games with seven or fewer points against Illinois (2) and Northwestern (7). The Huskies have scorers up and down their starting five, so it’s not uncommon for someone to take a bit more of a backseat.
To win, UConn has to win and Castle needs to explode while Clingan has a game similar to Castle’s against Northwestern.
Castle has an outside shot.
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Adama Sanogo won the Final Four Most Outstanding Player award in the 2023 NCAA Tournament. In the championship game against San Diego State, he scored 17 points, shot 55% from the field, and had ten rebounds, recording a double-double. This was his fourth of the NCAA Tournament. Against Miami (FL) in the Final Four, he had 21 points.
The Most Outstanding Player award is given to the Final Four’s MVP; it is decided by a media panel after the conclusion of the NCAA Championship game.
The award has existed since 1939 and there have been 12 seasons where a non-championship-winning player was selected as the Most Outstanding Player in the Final Four. Adama Sanogo is the most recent winner of the award, while Ochai Agbaji and Kyle Guy won it the prior two seasons.
Glen Rice holds the record for the most points scored in a single NCAA Tournament, finishing March Madness with a shocking 184 points in six games. Rice led Michigan to a National Championship in 1989. The most points per game of any player in a single NCAA Tournament belongs to Notre Dame’s Austin Carr in 1970, though, as he posted an astonishing 52.7 points per game in three games.
Yes, this has happened a dozen times in the long history of the NCAA Tournament. Hakeem Olajuwon won the Most Outstanding Player award in the 1983 Final Four, but no losing player has won it since then. At this point, it would take multiple substantial performances from a player on a losing team to win the award. Olajuwon is a tough act to follow for any award at any level.
There have been a few men’s basketball players who have won the award multiple times, including Bob Kurland (twice), Alex Grosa (twice), Jerry Lucas (twice), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (three times), and Bill Walton (twice.) Walton last won the award in 1973, so it has been 50 years since the last player won back-to-back Most Outstanding Player awards.
For the women, Cheryl Miller (twice), Chamique Holdsclaw (twice), Diana Taurasi (twice), Candace Parker (twice), and Breanna Stewart (four times) are the only multi-time winners of the NCAA Most Outstanding Player award.
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Richard Janvrin
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