Duke senior Jay Heaps has won the 1998 Missouri Athletic Club Player of the Year award. Heaps is the second Blue Devil to win the MAC Award, joining John Kerr, Jr., who won the inaugural honor in 1986. Heaps received 228 points and 51 first-place votes to runner-up Lazo Alavanja’s 195 and 39. Here are the results of the voting, which was done by collegiate coaches with each first-place vote worth three points, each second-place vote worth two points and each third-place vote worth one point:
| Name | School | Points (First-Place Votes) |
| Jay Heaps | Duke | 228 (51) |
| Lazo Alavanja | Indiana | 195 (39) |
| Seth George | UCLA | 154 (24) |
| Nick Garcia | Indiana | 106 (16) |
| Bobby Rhine | Connecticut | 103 (15) |
| Richard Mulrooney | Creighton | 94 (20) |
| Matt Chulis | Virginia | 89 (13) |
| Sasha Victorine | UCLA | 87 (10) |
| Tony Soto | SMU | 80 (11) |
| Keith Beach | Maryland | 59 (8) |