IHSAA Boys Basketball Player of the Week: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the IHSAA Boys Basketball Player of the Week is and who runs it

The IHSAA Boys Basketball Player of the Week gives Indiana fans a weekly say in which high school player earns the honour. The Indiana High School Athletic Association, the state body that governs high school athletics in Indiana, posts a single-question ballot each week of the boys basketball season asking who should be IHSAA boys basketball player of the week, and any supporter can vote. Crowdsignal hosts the ballot through its poll.fm address, and the programme's ballot sits at poll.fm/13403029.

The format is a straightforward poll rather than a multi-category contest. A weekly ballot lists that week's nominees, each shown with a school name, and a supporter selects one option and presses Vote. The association's own published wording explains the structure behind the list: player of the week winners are chosen each week from each of the IHSAA's three districts.

One point shapes everything else on this page. Every nominee is a high school athlete, in other words a minor, so this reference follows a strict rule: no individual player, student or child is named anywhere here, not in the tables, not in the results, not in the answers. The programme is described by its organiser, its sport, its state and its season instead. Schools and towns appear only where the ballot itself carries them as places.

Facts at a glance

The dated history of this weekly series

Confirmed seasons for this programme cover three years: 2022, 2023 and 2024. Within each of those seasons the series ran weekly, which means the confirmed editions are weekly ballots rather than one yearly event. The most recent season in the evidence is 2024, and no next edition year has been published, so whether and when the series returns is a matter for the association's own announcements.

The clearest dated fact is the Feb. 19-24 ballot. Its title reads, who is IHSAA boys basketball player of the week, Feb. 19-24, and it is marked Poll Closed. That gives a concrete picture of the rhythm: a weekly question framed around a Monday-to-weekend span in February, the heart of the Indiana high school basketball season, followed by a closed poll that displays final percentages and raw vote counts.

That closed ballot also carries the programme's one published figure. Its leading option finished with 60 percent of 45,802 votes, and the runner-up held 15 percent. Those numbers belong to that one weekly ballot only; they are not a season total and they do not predict any other week's turnout.

Several facts sit outside what the ballot publishes. Precise opening and closing times of each weekly window, the full list of ballot categories beyond the single player of the week question, and any per-supporter vote cap or eligibility text do not appear in the ballot text; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. The next season's calendar is likewise unpublished in advance by the association.

How a supporter votes on the current weekly ballot

Voting is a short sequence. The supporter loads poll.fm/13403029, reads the week's question and nominee list, selects one player, and presses Vote. The Feb. 19-24 ballot shows the mechanics plainly: a Crowdsignal poll built around one question, a list of nominees each tagged with a school, and a result display once the week closes. No account creation step appears in the ballot text.

Timing matters because the ballot is weekly. The Feb. 19-24 poll is closed, so visiting it today shows results rather than a live vote. During an open week the same address carries the current question, and a vote cast early in the window simply sits in the count longer than one cast on the last day. The weekly rhythm also means a supporter who misses one week has not missed the programme; the next week's ballot replaces the closed one at the same address.

One rule the ballot leaves unstated is how often a single person may vote. Crowdsignal polls commonly apply some repeat-vote control, but the IHSAA has published no rule text on this ballot about daily returns, cookies or per-device limits, so a supporter planning repeat visits should let the live page settle it. The honest summary is that the mechanic is one selection per visit, the window is one school week, and everything beyond that is set by whatever the live ballot states when the next poll opens.

How this ballot sits beside its Indiana neighbours

Indiana readers meet several public athlete votes in a season, and this one is distinct in three ways. First, the organiser is the state athletic association itself, not a newspaper, so the ballot speaks with the IHSAA's own authority and draws nominees from across its three districts. Second, the sport is boys basketball, which puts the weekly windows in the winter months, February among them. Third, the host is Crowdsignal at poll.fm, a dedicated polling platform, rather than a publisher's own contest software.

The nearest neighbours on this site show the contrast. The Indiana High School Football Player of the Week follows a similar weekly shape but in the fall sport. The Indiana SI Boys Basketball Player of the Year covers the same sport but as a season-ending award rather than a weekly question. Publisher-run ballots such as the Bloomington Herald-Times Athlete of the Week and the Evansville Courier & Press Football Player of the Year answer to their own newsrooms, and the Indiana SI Football 3A Player of the Year and Indiana SI Football 4A Player of the Year are class-specific football awards.

The practical consequence for a supporter is that each programme needs its own effort. A vote on the IHSAA weekly basketball ballot counts toward that week's question only, and no result carries across to any of the neighbouring ballots.

Strengthening support in a weekly high school poll

A weekly ballot rewards early, organised support more than a late surge. The Feb. 19-24 window spanned roughly a school week, so a nominee's community has five or six days to act. Sharing the exact poll.fm address through the school's own channels, team group chats and parent networks puts the ballot in front of people who already care, and each of them can vote from a phone in under a minute.

What the organiser says about outside help matters here. The IHSAA has published no rule text on this ballot about voting software, bots or purchased votes, which is not the same as permission; it means the live page is the only authority. A programme whose weekly result depends on credible community backing has every reason to review irregular patterns, and a nominee whose support looks manufactured risks the standing the award is meant to recognise.

The honest framing for anyone weighing paid support is on buying award votes: the ballot is free, the organiser is a state high school association, and the nominees are minors, which raises the stakes of any shortcut. No vote package, from any provider, can promise first place in a poll whose weekly turnout reaches the tens of thousands. Support built on real people voting early in the window is the approach that matches how this programme actually works.