PHILADELPHIA – Derek Simpson was named the Philadelphia Big 5 Player of the Year as four members of the Saint Joseph's men's basketball team were recognized by the organization in its year-end awards on Monday afternoon.
 
In addition to being the Player of the Year, Simpson was named to the First Team and also as the Big 5's top free throw shooter. Steve Donahue was voted as Coach of the Year. Justice Ajogbor was named the Scholar-Athlete of the Year for a second consecutive season. Jaiden Glover-Toscano was selected to the Second Team.
 
A First Team All-Atlantic 10 honoree and Second Team NABC All-Region, Simpson averaged 13.8 points, 5.3 rebounds and 5.2 assists per game, making him one of just seven players nationally to post 13-5-5 per game. He reached double figure scoring in 27 games and tallied 20 or more seven times. The senior from Mount Laurel, N.J. had four double-doubles on the year and was the only player in the A-10 with three games of 10+ assists. He also went 99-for-108 at the free throw line, a mark of 91.7 percent, which ranked eighth in NCAA D1.
 
Donahue led a team that finished third in the Atlantic 10 and became just the 13th team in the last 45 years to advance to the NIT quarterfinals without playing a home game. In its last 20 games of the season, SJU went 15-5 and allowed 67.5 points per game while its opponents shot less than 40 percent from the floor. The Hawks won 24 games in 2025-26, making it just the third time in the 116-year history of St. Joe's men's basketball that the team has won 20 or more games in three consecutive seasons.
 
Ajogbor was the A-10 Co-Defensive Player of the Year, All-Academic and All-Defensive. He averaged 6.5 points, 4.9 rebounds and 2.1 blocks per game. He closed his career sixth on the Hawks' career blocked shots list with 163 in just two seasons. In the classroom, he has a 3.61 GPA as a graduate student studying applied investment analysis. He is just the second student-athlete since the inception of the award in 2010-11 to be named Scholar Athlete of the Year twice, joining Jalen Brunson in 2016-17 and 2017-18.
 
Glover-Toscano scored 15.7 points per game with 4.8 rebounds a contest. A Second Team All-Atlantic 10 honoree, his 94 three-pointers this season are the sixth most in a single year in program history. He was in double figure scoring 26 times and topped 20 points on 13 occasions while also connecting for three or more triples in a game 15 times.