# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tyler-cain
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:14:38.595Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tyler-cain"
name: "Tyler Cain"
slug: "tyler-cain"
description: "Tyler Cain is an American basketball player who last played for Derthona Basket of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). He played college basketball for the University of South Dakota (USD). He is best known for being the inaugural winner of the Great West Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year award in 2009–10, the conference's first as a Division I basketball league. As a senior that season, Cain became the second player in USD history to record 1,000 points and 1,000 rebounds. He is also USD's all-time leading shot blocker after compiling 361 during his career."
tagline: "American basketball player"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JLB-EB_-_20150328_-_Tyler_Cain.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Basketball Players"
  slug: "basketball-players"
profileType:
  name: "Basketball Player"
  slug: "basketball-player"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q3665646"
birthDate: "1988-06-30"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.34
  momentum:             11.78571428571428
  historical:           5.671994666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Cain"
    title: "Tyler Cain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B1_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "تايلر كين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B1_%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "تايلر كين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Cain"
    title: "Tyler Cain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Cain"
    title: "Tyler Cain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Cain"
    title: "Tyler Cain"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8987178"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump