Western Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year

The Western Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year is an award given to the Western Athletic Conference's (WAC) most outstanding player. The award was first given following the 1980–81 season. Keith Van Horn of Utah and Nick Fazekas of Nevada are the only players to have won the award three times. Three other players—Michael Cage, Josh Grant and Melvin Ely—have won the award twice. Danny Ainge, the first ever WAC Player of the Year, was also the John R. Wooden Award winner in 1980–81.

Utah has the most all-time winners with seven. There have been four ties in the award's history, most notably in 1982–83 when there was a three-way tie. Due mainly to major membership turnover from 2010 to 2014 and further turnover in the early 2020s, only two current WAC members (California Baptist and Utah Valley) have had a winner.

In 2026, the WAC will rebrand as the United Athletic Conference (UAC), which will expand from a football-only alliance between the WAC and Atlantic Sun Conference (ASUN) to a multi-sports league. Three of the current seven WAC members will transfer to the UAC: Abilene Christian, Tarleton State, and UT Arlington. Of the six other UAC all-sports members in 2026–27, five will come from the ASUN, with Little Rock joining from the Ohio Valley Conference.