CCHA Best Defensive Defenseman

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| name = CCHA Best Defensive Defenseman

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| sport = Ice hockey

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| givenfor = Best Defensive Defenseman in the CCHA

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| first = 1990

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| mostrecent = Chase Pietila

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The CCHA Best Defensive Defenseman is an annual award given out at the conclusion of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA) regular season to the best defensive defenseman in the conference as voted by the coaches of each CCHA team.{{cite news|title=Henderson and Odegard Recipients of CCHA Major Awards|url=http://www.alaskananooks.com/news/2013/3/23/MHOCKEY_0323132240.aspx|publisher=Alaska Nanooks|date=2013-03-22|accessdate=2013-07-23}}

The Best Defensive Defenseman was first awarded in 1990 and every year thereafter until 2013 when the original CCHA was dissolved as a consequence of the Big Ten forming its men's ice hockey conference.{{cite news|title=The CCHA is going away, but its history will have a final resting place|url=http://www.uscho.com/2013/03/06/the-ccha-is-going-away-but-its-history-will-have-a-final-resting-place/|publisher=USCHO.com|date=2013-03-06|accessdate=2013-07-23}}

The CCHA was revived in 2020, with play resuming in the 2021–22 season, by seven schools that left the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, with an eighth school joining before play started. The revived league chose to fold its previous awards for Best Defensive and Best Offensive Defenseman into a single CCHA Defenseman of the Year award. The award was revived in 2024.{{cite news|title=Kyle Looft Tabbed Best Defensive Defenseman |url=https://ccha.com/news/2024/3/13/defenseman-of-the-year.aspx |work=CCHA |date=March 13, 2024 |accessdate=March 14, 2024}}

Three players (Tyler Harlton, Mike Weaver and Danny DeKeyser) have received the award two separate times, each doing so in consecutive years. Additionally, Andy Greene is the only defenseman to win both the "Best Defensive" and "Best Offensive" Defenseman in the same year (2005–06).