WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Saint Joseph's men's basketball team was well represented as the Atlantic 10 Conference handed out its annual awards on Wednesday morning as five different members of the team were honored.
 
Two Hawks earned major awards as Steve Donahue was voted as the Coach of the Year and Justice Ajogbor was selected as the Co-Defensive Player of the Year. Derek Simpson was picked as First Team All-Conference, Jaiden Glover-Toscano was All-Atlantic 10 Second Team and Austin Williford was named to the All-Rookie Team. Ajogbor was also selected to the All-Defensive Team and the All-Academic Team.
 
Ajogbor was recognized for a season where he took the top spot as the NCAA Division I active leader in blocked shots with 252 and moved into sixth all-time at St. Joe's with 155. He is 14th nationally with 69 rejections and is second in the A-10 in total blocks and blocks per game. The Benin City, Nigeria native has 11 games this season with three or more swats. On top of what he did on the court, he has a 3.61 cumulative GPA as a graduate student studying applied investment analysis.
 
Simpson is a two-time A-10 Player of the Week and is one of only eight players nationally to average 13.0 PPG, 5.0 RPG and 5.0 APG. He is top-60 nationally in both total assists and assists per game. The senior elevated his numbers in conference play, ranking seventh in the A-10 in scoring and leads in assists during A-10 contests. He is the only player in the conference with three games of 10 or more dimes and his 45 total steals are tied for seventh in the A-10. The Mount Laurel, N.J. native is one of 33 players nationally with 10+ games of seven or more assists and he has scored 10 or more points in 16 consecutive games. Simpson is second in the A-10 and ninth nationally at 90.3 percent FT. He has four double-doubles this season and scored career-high 27 points at VCU on January 19.
 
Glover-Toscano is sixth in the A-10 in scoring and third in three-pointers per game, also ranking in the top-75 nationally in the latter category. He has been in double figure scoring in 12 games, including 20+ in 11 games. Eight of his 11 contests where he has gone off for 20 or more have come in A-10 games where he is averaging 16.3 points per outing. Glover-Toscano also has 14 games with three or more three-pointers and is shooting 36.3 percent from beyond the arc since December 6, a 22-game stretch.
 
Williford is one of three freshmen to play in all 31 games this season in the A-10. He is fourth among freshmen in scoring at 7.6 points per game and his 4.3 rebounds a contest are second among A-10 rookies. The Charlottesville, Va. native has eight games with 10 or more points. He notched first career double-double with 17 points and 10 boards at Loyola Chicago on January 27. Williford has six games with three or more three-pointers and four games with three or more steals.
 
Donahue took over as the head coach of the Hawks less than seven weeks prior to the opening game of the season and guided Saint Joseph's to 21 wins thusfar, the most wins for the program before postseason play since 2015-16. After an 0-2 start in A-10 play, SJU has reeled off 13 wins in 16 games to enter the Atlantic 10 tournament as the No. 3 seed. It is the highest seed for St. Joe's since the 2005 tournament and is a four-placement improvement over the preseason poll where the Hawks were selected seventh.
 
Saint Joseph's opens its postseason run with a quarterfinal game in the Atlantic 10 Championship on Friday, March 13 against a yet to be determined opponent. The game is scheduled to tip off at 7:30 p.m. and will air on CNBC.