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2025-26 Big West Men’s Basketball All-Big West Team & Award Winners\u00a0<\/a>
\nThe Big West is proud to announce its 2025-26 men\u2019s basketball all-conference team and individual award winners as the 2026 Credit Union 1 Big West Men\u2019s Basketball Championships gets set to tip off Wednesday at Lee\u2019s Family Forum. The awards and all-conference teams were determined by the league\u2019s 11 head coaches.
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\nWith the voting results, CSUN senior guard Josiah Davis was tabbed the 2025-26 Big West Player of the Year and Newcomer of the Year. The Kitchener, Ontario, Canada product averaged 15.7 points, 4.6 rebounds, conference-best 7.4 assists and 1.1 steals per game, leading CSUN to a 19-13 overall record, going 12-8 in league play. Davis\u2019 236 assists on the season ranks third in the nation.
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\nLong Beach State guard Gavin Sykes was picked as the Freshman of the Year. The Beach rookie was second in the conference in scoring, averaging 19.4 points, 3.0 rebounds and 1.5 assists per contest. Sykes ranks sixth nationally among freshman in scoring.
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\nCal State Fullerton 13th-year head coach Dedrique Taylor was voted by fellow colleagues as the Coach of the Year. After being predicted to finish in last place in the Preseason Coaches\u2019 Poll, Taylor helmed the Titans to a No. 3 seed in the Championship with a 12-8 league mark.
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\nRegular-season champion UC Irvine collected two honors. The Anteaters boast the Best Defensive Player in senior center Kyle Evans and the Best Sixth Player in graduate guard Andre Henry. Evans led the nation and broke The Big West and school record for blocked shots with 109 in the regular season, to go with 11.9 points, on a league second-best 62.4 percent shooting, and 8.5 rebounds per game. Henry came off the bench and averaged 10.0 points, 2.5 rebounds and 1.0 assists per game.
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\nCSUN senior forward Mahmoud Fofana got the votes for Best Hustle Player. Fofana started all 32 games for the Matadors, led the conference in field goal percentage with a 63.2 percent clip, averaging 11.3 points, 7.9 rebounds, 1.5 assists and 1.1 steals per game.
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\nThe league\u2019s head coaches also voted for two all-conference teams. Joining Davis and Evans on the 2025-26 All-Big West First Team are UC Irvine redshirt sophomore guard Jurian Dixon, Hawai\u2018i senior center Isaac Johnson, UC Santa Barbara senior guard Aidan Mahaney and Cal Poly sophomore guard Hamad Mousa. The second team features Sykes, Hawai\u2018i graduate guard Dre Bullock, UC Riverside senior guard Andrew Henderson, CSUN senior guard Larry Hughes II and Cal State Fullerton senior guard Josh Ward.
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\nDixon led UC Irvine in scoring, averaging 15.7 points per game, the seventh-most in the league. The Anteater from San Diego, Calif. also logged 3.6 rebounds, 2.4 assists and 1.1 steals per outing. Johnson averaged 13.7 points, on a .506 field goal percentage and a conference third-best .880 free throw percentage, 5.8 rebounds and 1.0 blocks per contest. Mahaney put away 15.1 points and 2.7 assists per game. The Gaucho from Lafayette, Calif. ranked fourth in the league in 3-point percentage (.395) and 3-pointers per game (2.4). Mousa averaged a conference-leading 20.4 points and 6.3 rebounds per outing.
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\nBullock logged 13.6 points, 5.8 rebounds and 1.6 steals per game. Henderson averaged a league third-best 18.1 points and 4.9 rebounds per contest. Hughes II was fourth in the conference in scoring at 17.6 points per outing. The Matador senior was third in the league in 3-point percentage at .395 from behind the arc and first in 3-point field goals, making 3.1 per game. Ward put up numbers of 14.5 points, 4.4 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 1.6 steals per contest.
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\nThe 2026 Credit Union 1 Big West Men\u2019s Basketball Championship begins at 6 p.m. on Wednesday night, March 11, from Lee\u2019s Family Forum in Henderson, Nev. All seven games will feature live video coverage across ESPN platforms, with Saturday\u2019s final on primetime with a 7 p.m. PT tip-off and airing live on ESPN2.
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\n\t\t\tPlayer of the Year
\n\t\t\tJosiah Davis, CSUN
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\n\t\t\tNewcomer of the Year
\n\t\t\tJosiah Davis, CSUN
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\n\t\t\tGavin Sykes, Long Beach State
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\n\t\t\tDedrique Taylor, Cal State Fullerton
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\n\t\t\tBest Defensive Player
\n\t\t\tKyle Evans, UC Irvine
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\n\t\t\tBest Hustle Player
\n\t\t\tMahmoud Fofana, CSUN
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\n\t\t\tBest Sixth Player
\n\t\t\tAndre Henry, UC Irvine
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\n\t\t\tAll-Big West First Team
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\n\t\t\tJosiah Davis
\n\t\t\tSr.
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\n\t\t\tKitchener, Ontario, Canada
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\n\t\t\tJurian Dixon
\n\t\t\tR-So.
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\n\t\t\tUC Irvine
\n\t\t\tSan Diego, Calif.
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\n\t\t\tKyle Evans
\n\t\t\tSr.
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\n\t\t\tUC Irvine
\n\t\t\tAliso Viejo, Calif.
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\n\t\t\tIsaac Johnson
\n\t\t\tSr.
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\n\t\t\tHawai’i
\n\t\t\tAmerican Fork, Utah
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\n\t\t\tAidan Mahaney
\n\t\t\tSr.
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\n\t\t\tLafayette, Calif.
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\n\t\t\tHamad Mousa
\n\t\t\tSo.
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\n\t\t\tCal Poly
\n\t\t\tDoha, Qatar
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\n\t\t\tAll-Big West Second Team
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\n\t\t\tDre Bullock
\n\t\t\tGr.
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\n\t\t\tHawai’i
\n\t\t\tFranklinton, N.C.
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\n\t\t\tAndrew Henderson
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\n\t\t\tLos Angeles, Calif.
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\n\t\t\tLarry Hughes II
\n\t\t\tSr.
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\n\t\t\tSt. Louis, Mo.
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\n\t\t\tGavin Sykes
\n\t\t\tFr.
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\n\t\t\tLong Beach State
\n\t\t\tSacramento, Calif.
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\n\t\t\tJosh Ward
\n\t\t\tSr.
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\n\t\t\tCal State Fullerton
\n\t\t\tMemphis, Tenn.
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\n\t\t\tHonorable Mention:\u00a0Peter Bandelj (Cal Poly), Leo Beath (UC San Diego), Jefferson De La Cruz Monegro (Cal State Fullerton), Bol Dengdit (UC San Diego), Hunter Erickson (Hawai\u2018i), Mahmoud Fofana (CSUN), Andre Henry (UC Irvine), Ronald Jessamy (Cal State Bakersfield), Petar Majstorovic (Long Beach State), Hudson Mayes (UC San Diego), Joshua O\u2019Garro (CSUN), Niko Rocak (UC Davis), Derin Saran (UC Irvine), Connor Sevilla (UC Davis), CJ Shaw (UC Santa Barbara), Cayden Ward (Cal Poly), Marcus Wilson (UC Davis), Marqui Worth Jr. (UC Riverside)
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