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The All A10 Team
With the season almost over, thoughts on the season honors?
Castro, despite the injury 1st Team all league? Does he win Defensive Player of the Year?
Any other GW candidates?
1st Team Predictions?
Player of the Year prediction?
Coach of the year, rookie of the year?
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Main competition for Castro for DPOY comes from? .....
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Trey Green -- SLU
Rafael Castro
Frank Mitchell -- SBU
DeJour Reaves -- FU
Javon Bennett -- UD
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The 3 Bid League Podcast polled a bunch of A10 Twitter personalities (including our own David Korn) to come up with a "Media" A10 Conference Awards
Player of the Year: Robbie Avila (SLU)
Rookie of the Year: Aiden Argabright (Richmond)
Defensive Player of the Year: Justice Ajogbor (St Joe’s)
6th Man of the Year: Terrence Hill (VCU)
Most Improved Player: Terrence Hill (VCU)
Transfer of the Year: Lazar Djokovic (VCU)
Sharpshooter of the Year: Trey Green (SLU)
Glue Guy of the Year: Jaiun Simon (Dayton)
Coach of the Year: Steve Donahue (St Joe’s)
Game of the Year: Richmond at Duquesne
1st team:
Robbie Avila (SLU) *unanimous
Rafael Castro (GW)
Dejour Reaves (Fordham)
Terrence Hill (VCU)
Lazar Djokovic (VCU)
2nd team:
Derek Simpson (St Joe’s)
Tarence Guinyard (Duquesne)
Javon Bennett (Dayton)
Frank Mitchell (St Bonaventure)
Riley Allenspach (George Mason)
3rd team:
Tyler Cochran (URI)
Jaiden Glover-Toscano (St Joe’s)
Kory Mincy (George Mason)
Kellen Thames (SLU)
Trey Green (SLU)
All-Defense:
Tyler Cochran (URI)
Justice Ajogbor (St Joe’s)
Miles Rubin (Loyola)
Rafael Castro (GW)
Kellen Thames (SLU)
David Dixon (Duquesne)
All-Rookie:
Austin Williford (St Joe’s)*
Nyk Lewis (VCU)
Aiden Argabright (Richmond)
Ashton Walker (La Salle)
Devin Brown (Davidson)
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Rafeal Castro Second Team All-Conference and All-Defense.
Gotta think the injury hurt his chance at the first team.
2025-26 Atlantic 10 Men’s Basketball Awards
Player of the Year: Robbie Avila, Saint Louis
Co-Defensive Player of the Year: Tyler Cochran, Rhode Island / Justice Ajogbor, Saint Joseph’s
Rookie of the Year: Nyk Lewis, VCU
Chris Daniels Most Improved Player: Terrence Hill, Jr., VCU
Sixth Man of the Year: Terrence Hill, Jr., VCU
Coach of the Year: Steve Donahue, Saint Joseph’s
All-Conference First Team
Javon Bennett, Dayton
Tarence Guinyard, Duquesne
Derek Simpson, Saint Joseph's
Robbie Avila, Saint Louis
Lazar Djokovic, VCU
Terrence Hill, Jr., VCU
All-Conference Second Team
DeJour Reaves, Fordham
Riley Allenspach, George Mason
Kory Mincy, George Mason
Rafael Castro, George Washington
Tyler Cochran, Rhode Island
Jaiden Glover-Toscano, Saint Joseph’s
All-Conference Third Team
De’Shayne Montgomery, Dayton
Jimmie Williams, Duquesne
Frank Mitchell, St. Bonaventure
Trey Green, Saint Louis
Amari McCottry, Saint Louis
Kellen Thames, Saint Louis
All-Defensive Team
Rafael Castro, George Washington
Tyler Cochran, Rhode Island
Justice Ajogbor, Saint Joseph's
Dion Brown, Saint Louis
Brandon Jennings, VCU
All-Rookie Team
Devin Brown, Davidson
Ashton Walker, La Salle
Aiden Argabright, Richmond
Austin Williford, SJU
Nyk Lewis, VCU
All-Academic Team
DeJour Reaves, Fordham
Miles Rubin, Loyola Chicago
Tyler Cochran, Rhode Island
Justice Ajogbor, Saint Joseph's
Ishan Sharma, Saint Louis
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With all due respect to Steve Donahue who did a fine job, failing to give Coach of the Year to Josh Schertz might be the biggest joke in the history of these awards.
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Castro was also hurt by the fact that he played on a team with a losing record in conference...
The fact that there is only one GW player on these lists and he is leaving at the end of the year is a huge red flag for a coach going into his 5th season, imho.
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you mean he wasn't POY, but you said yada yada yada ...
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Castro is one of 25 finalists for the Lefty Driesell National Defensive Player of the Year, so I definitely think he would have had a good shot a DPOY if GW had finished Top 4 in conference. Incidentally, Justice Ajogbar is not a finalist, although Tyler Cochran is:
Its clear to me that these A10 awards heavily favor the better teams.
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Let's just say we were force fed a lot of speculation about Player of the Year and then
Defensive Player of the year. And no one even placed on the first team.
While I think that was wrong and Castro belonged on the first team and his defense
is impressive, perhaps rather than a constant drumbeat about individual accolades, we need
to focus on team performance. Awards don't win games. The team does.
Meantime hope Castro takes this perceived slight to heart and kicks butt in the A-10 tournament.
Not counting on anything at all, but this season can't be salvaged pretty shy of anything other than
winning the tournament.
And for anyone who wants to focus on awards in the future, look at the composition of the
players and teams chosen. Generally the better your team is, the better chance of getting that award.
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And the better your players are, the better your team is.
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Frank Mitchell was only third team all conference? Lmfao
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BS that Slim not first team. He’s top 5 in every category except 3s.
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Has anyone’s game fallen off more than Max Edward’s. He gets garbage time at Duquesne after rookie of Ty year? His body language is the same as it was his last year at GW. An obvious travel and he shakes his head like he did not walk. Just a sad case of someone never owning the feedback and using it to improve.