The title is named after Dr. James Naismith, the creator of basketball. The Naismith Trophy is the award given annually to the most outstanding players in the NCAA, both male and female. For its ...

The 2024-25 Naismith Awards ceremony took place on Wednesday afternoon and it was a heavily West Coast affair. All three ...

Duke star Cooper Flagg won his second major award in two days when he received the Naismith Trophy as the national player of ...

Creighton senior Ryan Kalkbrenner has been named 2025 Naismith Defensive Player of the Year presented by MOLECULE!

Two days after Rick Pitino was named a co-recipient of the Associated Press National Coach of the Year, he was chosen as the ...

The St. John's coach was named the Naismith Men's College Coach of the Year Award winner on Sunday. He won over fellow finalists in Houston's Kelvin Sampson, Auburn's Bruce Pearl and Duke's Jon ...

Earlier this month, Pitino was named the co-recipient of the AP Coach of the Year with Auburn’s Bruce Pearl. In March, Pitino ...

Braden Smith's numbers speak for themselves and today he was rewarded with one of his biggest honors to date, being named the ...

St. John’s University basketball head coach Rick Pitino watches the New Mexico Lobos and Michigan State Spartans play in the ...

HOLYOKE, Mass. (WWLP) – BusinessWest magazine hosted its 17th annual Difference Makers awards gala Wednesday evening in Holyoke. Since 2009, the event—part of the Difference Makers program—puts a ...

Creighton's Ryan Kalkbrenner is the recipient of the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Center of the Year Award, according to the Naismith ...