The SB Tribune Girls Basketball Player of the Year: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the SB Tribune Girls Basketball Player of the Year is and who runs it

This programme is a public-vote award for Indiana high school girls basketball. It is run by the South Bend Tribune, the publisher whose sports desk reports on high school athletics across its Indiana market, and the winner is decided by readers rather than by a panel of writers. The ballot lives on Crowdsignal, reached through poll.fm, and the live vote sits at the poll.fm address listed in the table below.

The format is deliberately lean. One question sits on the ballot, asking readers to name the season's top player, and the answer options are the nominees the Tribune has named in its girls basketball coverage. Each option carries a player's name beside her school, letting a reader reach a nominee through either. There is no slate of side categories to work through; a supporter picks a player and submits.

On this site the programme is filed under the sport vertical with a public-vote mechanic, and it sits among a family of Indiana publisher polls run by other newsrooms. The facts below gather the details readers ask for most often.

When the poll runs: confirmed editions and the current window

Confirmed editions of the poll sit in 2022 and 2025, which is what qualifies the programme as annual on this site. The most recent confirmed ballot belongs to the 2024-25 season, titled Who is the 2024-25 SB Tribune Girls Basketball Player of the Year?, and its title carries a closed marker, so that edition's voting has finished.

The current cycle has a published close. The Tribune's announcement states that the poll remains accessible until Thursday, March 19, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. The ballot's timing places both its opening and its close in March.

No opening or nomination date has been printed by the Tribune for this poll; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

Two further gaps are worth naming. No round dates from the ballot platform have been published for this market, and the Tribune's pages do not state an eligibility rule for who can be nominated. Readers planning around the award should treat the Tribune's own announcement as the authority on dates and let the ballot itself settle anything the announcement leaves out.

How a supporter votes in the Player of the Year poll

Voting happens on the poll.fm ballot itself. A supporter opens the page, reads the question, which asks who deserves the Player of the Year honour, and chooses from the nominee list. Every option sets a player's name beside her school, so a reader can find a nominee by the school name as easily as by the player. The choice is submitted on the same page, and the ballot describes no login or registration step; the programme is a public vote, open to readers rather than restricted to account holders.

The Tribune's stated rule on repeat participation is explicit: "Voters can participate an unlimited number of times." That sentence does real work. It means the organizer's own text sets no ceiling on return visits, so a family, a student section or a booster group can vote together, then come back together, without anyone breaking a published rule.

Timing shapes the rest. The close is a hard deadline, 11:59 p.m. on March 19, so support organized early in the window has weeks of room to build, while support held back for the final night depends on everything going right in a few hours. The ballot displays results as percentages of the votes cast, which lets a campaign see where it stands while the window is still live.

Where this ballot sits among Indiana's publisher polls

This poll is among several Indiana publisher ballots covered on this site, and its neighbours define what makes it distinct. The closest comparison is the Indiana SI Boys Basketball Player of the Year, a boys award from a different organizer, which leaves this poll as the girls basketball counterpart in the state's coverage.

Weekly formats sit nearby too. The Bloomington Herald-Times Athlete of the Week and the Indiana High School Football Player of the Week reset every week, while this ballot honours a whole season's body of work. The Evansville Courier & Press Football Player of the Year shares the season-long shape but covers football under a different newsroom's masthead.

Football fills out the rest of the set, with the Indiana SI Football 3A Player of the Year and the Indiana SI Football 4A Player of the Year running under the SI banner. Against that field, the SB Tribune poll stands out for its sport, its girls field and its organizer: it is the South Bend Tribune's season-long girls basketball honour, on a poll.fm ballot any reader with the link can reach.

Building support for a nominee in this poll

Support here is built on the organizer's own mechanic. Because the Tribune states that voters can participate an unlimited number of times, the practical play is steady repetition inside the window rather than a scramble at the close: pass the poll.fm link to the team's families, the student section and the school's supporters, and ask each of them to vote and forward it to their own circles. The guide to getting more votes online collects tactics that fit a public ballot of this shape. Readers weighing paid help can compare what services advertise on the award votes page; whatever route a supporter takes, the Tribune's deadline on March 19 is the same for every vote, purchased or not.