CAA Postseason Awards

[JoeyBagODonuts1]

Cruz Davis - POY, Scholar Athlete of the Year, All CAA 1st Team.
Preston Edmead - ROY, All CAA 2nd Team, All Rookie Team.
Joshua DeCady - All Defensive Team.

Congrats to all! Now lets go cut down those nets!

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[cactus]

Thought they were announcing this tomorrow - great find JBOD

Hofstra is the first program in league history to roster the conference’s Player and Rookie of the Year selections in the same season

Tejada on 3rd team, after being POY last year.

[Wags]

Thought they were announcing this tomorrow - great find JBOD

Hofstra is the first program in league history to roster the conference’s Player and Rookie of the Year selections in the same season

Tejada on 3rd team, after being POY last year.

Apparently it was 10 pm instead of 10 am.

Hofstra now has 10 CAA Player of the Year awards won by seven Hofstra players.
The next closest is George Mason (six CAA POY awards by four different players).

Hofstra is also the first CAA school to have a POY and a ROY in the same season.

[triplec2195]

Congrats on the awards that most of us knew were coming. Lets now go cut nets down in DC. Need to win it all. BTW does anyone out there think there was a case for Preston to make CAA first team? I know I'm getting greedy but probably got some votes!!

[Pride97]

Did they accidentally post it early? The link goes to an error page.


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[triplec2195]

Yes couldn't open the page??

[HU87]

I think JBOD got us the sneak peek... looks like it's not published on socials or anywhere else yet either.

[dutchPride86]

LOL nothing speaks to the incompetence of the CAA as a league better than accidentally posting their awards early

[HU87]

Haha really amazing. Great find JBOD-- I'm not seeing it official or live anywhere as of now.

Maybe Towson got a quick look and is protesting Tejada 3rd team

[HUSID74]

Congrats to Cruz and Preston...now finish the job and cut down those nets in DC

[cactus]

What makes it doubly impressive on being the first program in league history to roster the conference’s Player and Rookie of the Year selections in the same season - they were completely shut out of awards day last year.

[Mikey77]

Congrats Cruz, Preston and DeCady and all those who made these honors possible.

[cactus]

Did they accidentally post it early? The link goes to an error page.
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The page is back up with today's date and a 10 AM timestamp, so they did indeed post them 12 hours early by mistake.
Classic alarm clock AM/PM switch

[Wags]

What makes it doubly impressive on being the first program in league history to roster the conference’s Player and Rookie of the Year selections in the same season - they were completely shut out of awards day last year.

That's a very nice turnaround.

What Evan said about 10 am today seemed to be the plan, but they posted it last night and I'm guessing, saw that people noticed, so they disabled that until 10 am today. Or could be something like cactus said - maybe they can schedule posts in advance meant to schedule for 10 am but scheduled for 10 pm. Either way, that's something Flo Sports would do.

With 10 POY awards (from seven players) in the past 20 seasons, Hofstra is averaging a POY award every other year over the past two decades.

[Polito]

Wow big kudos and congrats to Cruz, Edmead, and Decady, and also to Speedy & Co!! No secret I think this is the weakest candidate we’ve had, but not trying to knock him, seems like a solid kid and he does some things well - a win is a win, and if he’s the best in conf then so be it and take it all day.

Have to agree, I’ve said HU absolutely needed to have a big bounce back year this year after last years debacle - this and the 3rd place finish is the heckuva reversal needed.

Now… unfortunately all those POYs have produced jack squat in NCAATs, it’s become a black eye to me - it’s a cool honor but this isn’t the measure for success and it’s annoying when HU uses it as the barometer of success like they’re crushing life, and it just isn’t that - and worse it seems to be the kiss of death for us.

I really don’t see HU dancing this time either - but I would truly be THRILLED to be wrong.

[Wags]

Wow big kudos and congrats to Cruz, Edmead, and Decady, and also to Speedy & Co!! No secret I think this is the weakest candidate we’ve had, but not trying to knock him, seems like a solid kid and he does some things well - a win is a win, and if he’s the best in conf then so be it and take it all day.

Have to agree, I’ve said HU absolutely needed to have a big bounce back year this year after last years debacle - this and the 3rd place finish is the heckuva reversal needed.

Now… unfortunately all those POYs have produced jack squat in NCAATs, it’s become a black eye to me - it’s a cool honor but this isn’t the measure for success and it’s annoying when HU uses it as the barometer of success like they’re crushing life, and it just isn’t that - and worse it seems to be the kiss of death for us.

I really don’t see HU dancing this time either - but I would truly be THRILLED to be wrong.

They've been very top heavy. Ten POY awards (George Mason the next closest with six) in 20 years, four POY awards in the past five years. They routinely have some of the best talent in the CAA but except for 2020 (ironically, a year Hofstra didn't have a POY), the CAA tourney champions were more complete and more balanced with talent top to bottom.

Aside from the flaws we've highlighted over the season, particularly with Victory being less than what we he hoped for or expected (because that would otherwise make a big difference in a tournament like this - see Isaac Kante in 2020), I feel like Hofstra is a little deeper, a little more complete this year than is some past years when they had the POY, and that's what may give them a better chance next week.

I guess, bookmark this either way. It'll either be 0-for-10 with CAA tourney title attempts with a POY or it'll finally be the year they break through with a POY. Maybe by Tuesday night, we can say that what they finally needed was (for the first time anyone has had it in the CAA) not just a POY but a ROY sidekick at the same time.

[cactus]

Agreed on Onyetu - I've heard a lot about Biggie Patterson as the X factor, but Victory was a big part of the wins over Pitt (10 pts) and Syracuse (11 boards), they could really use some quality minutes without a lot of fouls from him.

[EvanJ]

What makes it doubly impressive on being the first program in league history to roster the conference’s Player and Rookie of the Year selections in the same season - they were completely shut out of awards day last year.

That's a very nice turnaround.

What Evan said about 10 am today seemed to be the plan, but they posted it last night and I'm guessing, saw that people noticed, so they disabled that until 10 am today. Or could be something like cactus said - maybe they can schedule posts in advance meant to schedule for 10 am but scheduled for 10 pm. Either way, that's something Flo Sports would do.

With 10 POY awards (from seven players) in the past 20 seasons, Hofstra is averaging a POY award every other year over the past two decades.

You can tell that it was meant to be posted today because it said the CAA Tournament starts "this afternoon."

Four of the first team players matched the KenPom team. The difference was the CAA having D.J. Smith, and KenPom having Jason Rivera-Torres. That is bigger agreement than last season. Last season KenPom had Aranguren as the third best player, while POY Tyler Tejada did not make KenPom's first team. KenPom does not include team success like voters do. KenPom has its teams going back to 2013-2014. KenPom would have give us the POYs we got during that time minus JWF's first when KenPom had Vasa Pusica, and Estrada's first when KenPom had Cam Holden.

Excluding this year since the CAA Tournament has not been played, if you asked fans to guess what is the most POYs in the last 19 seasons by a team that did not play in the NCAA Tournament, fans would guess way fewer than 9.

https://gohofstra.com/news/2026/3/6/men ... onors.aspx is titled "Hofstra Makes CAA History as Davis and Edmead Capture Top Honors."

Edmead is the eleventh ROY to make the first or second team. The previous ROYs were East Carolina's Gus Hill in 1987-1988 (first team), James Madison's William Davis in 1988-1989 (second team), East Carolina's Lester Lyons in 1990-1991 (second team), Old Dominion's Odell Hodge in 1992-1993 (second team), George Mason's Nate Langley in 1994-1995 (second team), George Mason's George Evans in 1997-1998 (second team), Richmond's Charles Stephens in 1998-1999 (second team), UNCW's Brett Blizzard in 1999-2000 (first team), East Carolina's Gabriel Mikulas in 2000-2001 (second team), and Georgia State's R.J. Hunter in 2012-2013 (first team). Edmead is the second ROY to make the first or second team in our 25 seasons in the CAA, and the first ROY to make the first or second team in the last 13 seasons. The CAA just honored one team in two seasons before going up to two teams in 1984-1985, so this is the 42nd season with at least two teams honored. The third team was created in 2003-2004.

[triplec2195]

What makes it doubly impressive on being the first program in league history to roster the conference’s Player and Rookie of the Year selections in the same season - they were completely shut out of awards day last year.

That's a very nice turnaround.

What Evan said about 10 am today seemed to be the plan, but they posted it last night and I'm guessing, saw that people noticed, so they disabled that until 10 am today. Or could be something like cactus said - maybe they can schedule posts in advance meant to schedule for 10 am but scheduled for 10 pm. Either way, that's something Flo Sports would do.

With 10 POY awards (from seven players) in the past 20 seasons, Hofstra is averaging a POY award every other year over the past two decades.

You can tell that it was meant to be posted today because it said the CAA Tournament starts "this afternoon."

Four of the first team players matched the KenPom team. The difference was the CAA having D.J. Smith, and KenPom having Jason Rivera-Torres. That is bigger agreement than last season. Last season KenPom had Aranguren as the third best player, while POY Tyler Tejada did not make KenPom's first team. KenPom does not include team success like voters do. KenPom has its teams going back to 2013-2014. KenPom would have give us the POYs we got during that time minus JWF's first when KenPom had Vasa Pusica, and Estrada's first when KenPom had Cam Holden.

Excluding this year since the CAA Tournament has not been played, if you asked fans to guess what is the most POYs in the last 19 seasons by a team that did not play in the NCAA Tournament, fans would guess way fewer than 9.

https://gohofstra.com/news/2026/3/6/men ... onors.aspx is titled "Hofstra Makes CAA History as Davis and Edmead Capture Top Honors."

Edmead is the eleventh ROY to make the first or second team. The previous ROYs were East Carolina's Gus Hill in 1987-1988 (first team), James Madison's William Davis in 1988-1989 (second team), East Carolina's Lester Lyons in 1990-1991 (second team), Old Dominion's Odell Hodge in 1992-1993 (second team), George Mason's Nate Langley in 1994-1995 (second team), George Mason's George Evans in 1997-1998 (second team), Richmond's Charles Stephens in 1998-1999 (second team), UNCW's Brett Blizzard in 1999-2000 (first team), East Carolina's Gabriel Mikulas in 2000-2001 (second team), and Georgia State's R.J. Hunter in 2012-2013 (first team). Edmead is the second ROY to make the first or second team in our 25 seasons in the CAA, and the first ROY to make the first or second team in the last 13 seasons. The CAA just honored one team in two seasons before going up to two teams in 1984-1985, so this is the 42nd season with at least two teams honored. The third team was created in 2003-2004.

I was going to pose the question as to whether a ROTY has ever made 2nd or for first team honors thanks for answering this Evan before it was asked!!

[triplec2195]

I know we have used this analogy before comparing Estrada and Tyler to Batman and Robin but these two kids might make a better Batman and Robin analogy especially since Preston is the freshman understudy and Cruz more of an experience journeyman type player!