(Top West Virginia high school boys basketball player)
The Evans Award is named for William Dent “Bill” Evans, the former sports editor and editor of the Fairmont Times, who began working at the newspaper while in high school in the mid-1920s. The award is voted on by the WVSWA and is given to the state’s most outstanding boys basketball player.
2023 – Eli Allen, James Monroe
2022 – Isaac McKneely, Poca (Virginia)
2021 – Isaac McKneely, jr., Poca
2020 – Kaden Metheny, University (Bowling Green)
2019 – Jalen Bridges, Fairmont Senior (WVU)
2018 – Taevon Horton, Fairmont Senior (WVU walk-on)
2017 – Jarrod West, Notre Dame (Marshall)
2016 – Tavian Dunn-Martin, Huntington (Akron/Duquesne)
2015 – Jacob Kilgore, Spring Valley (Marshall walk-on)
2014 – Jon Elmore, George Washington (VMI/Marshall)
2013 – Donte Grantham, Martinsburg (Clemson)
2012 – Demetrius “Boo” Lathon, Wheeling Park (West Liberty football)
2011 – Chase Fischer, Ripley (Wake Forest/BYU)
2010 – Noah Cottrill, Logan (WVU/W.Va. Wesleyan)
2009 – Aaron Dobson, South Charleston (Marshall football)
2008 – Bryant Irwin, Bridgeport (St. Joseph’s/Furman)
2007 – O.J. Mayo, Huntington (Southern Cal)
2006 – Patrick Patterson, jr. (Kentucky)
2005 – Josh “Cookie” Miller, Capital (Nebraska)
2004 – Adam Williams, St. Albans (Kentucky/Marshall)
2003 – Brandon Moore, Spring Valley (Eastern Kentucky)
2002 – Mark Patton, Cabell Midland (Marshall)
2001 – Patrick O’Malley, George Washington (Richmond)
2000 – Greg Davis, Tug Valley (Pikeville, Ky.)
1999 – Brett Nelson, St. Albans (Florida)
1998 – Tamar Slay, Woodrow Wilson (Marshall)
1997 – Rafael Cruz, Wheeling Park (Massachusetts/Youngstown State)
1996 – Cornelius Jackson, Oak Hill (Tennessee/Marshall)
1995 – Randy Moss, DuPont (Marshall football)
1994 – Randy Moss, jr., DuPont (Marshall football); Anthony Scruggs, Woodrow Wilson (Fork Union, Va.)
1993 – Ryan Culicerto, Woodrow Wilson (James Madison)
1992 – Jared Prickett, Fairmont Senior (Kentucky)
1991 – Matt Gaudio, Brooke (Penn State)
1990 – Marsalis Basey, Martinsburg (West Virginia)
1989 – Pervires “P.G.” Green, Oak Hill (West Virginia)
1988 – Anthony Strother, Williamson (Garden City, Kan.)
1987 – Tracy Shelton, Oak Hill (West Virginia)
1986 – Greg Bell, DuPont (Tennessee)
1985 – Vernell “Bimbo” Coles, jr., Greenbrier East (Virginia Tech)
1984 – Herbie Brooks, Mullens (West Virginia)
1983 – Mark Cline, Williamson (Wake Forest)
1982 – Gay Elmore, South Charleston (VMI)
1981 – Jim Miller, Princeton (Virginia)
1980 – David Daniel, Sherman (Charleston)
1979 – Earl Jones, jr., Mount Hope (District of Columbia)
1978 – Jeff Schneider, Washington Irving (Virginia Tech)
1977 – Jeff Schneider, jr., Washington Irving
1976 – Will Johnson, DuPont (Concord)
1975 – Sam Brooks, Charleston (Louisville)
1974 – Maurice “Mo” Robinson, Welch (West Virginia)
1973 – Denny Harris, Charleston (W.Va. State)
1972 – Warren Baker, Greenbrier East (West Virginia)
1971 – Bill Lindsay, Charles Town (Fairmont State)
1970 – Charles Hickok, Parkersburg (West Virginia)