Tyler Betsey of St. Thomas More is the 2023-24 Gatorade Connecticut Boys Basketball Player of the Year, an award he also won in the 2022-23 season.

The award, which celebrates the nation’s top high school athletes for excellence on the court, in the classroom and in the community, distinguishes Betsey as the state’s best high school boys basketball player.

The 6-foot-8, 210-pound senior wing averaged 23.1 points and six rebounds per game this past season, leading the Chancellors (29-9) to a berth in the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council Class AAA championship game. Betsey also averaged 3.1 assists per game and sank 84 percent of his free throw attempts. A First Team NEPSAC Class AAA selection, Betsey is ranked as the nation’s No. 57 recruit in the Class of 2024 by ESPN.

Betsey has volunteered locally at a Hartford-area soup kitchen and by organizing a school backpack drive in his hometown of Windsor. “He’s the most improved player we saw this year,” Worcester Academy coach Jamie Sullivan said in a release. “Everything they did revolved around him and his game has really evolved. He can put the ball on the floor, drive and defend. He does a lot of different things well.”

Betsey has maintained an A average in the classroom. He has signed a national letter of intent to play basketball on scholarship at the University of Cincinnati this fall.

The Gatorade Player of the Year program annually recognizes one winner in the District of Columbia and each of the 50 states that sanction high school football, girls volleyball, boys and girls cross country, boys and girls basketball, boys and girls soccer, baseball, softball, and boys and girls track & field, and awards one National Player of the Year in each sport. The selection process is administered by the Gatorade Player of the Year Selection Committee, which leverages experts including coaches, scouts, media and others as sources to help evaluate and determine the state winners in each sport.