Regular Season CCAC Champions - Gov State Coach Tony Bates Coach of Year - Maxwell Marius - First team All-CCAC and Newcomer of the Year - Jaguars Vincent Mayes - School Blocked Shots Record-Breaker - Named CCAC Defensive Player of Year!
Regular Season CCAC Champions - Gov State Coach Tony Bates Coach of Year - Maxwell Marius - First team All-CCAC and Newcomer of the Year -
Jaguars Vincent Mayes - School Blocked Shots Record-Breaker - Named CCAC Defensive Player of Year!
(24) Maxwell Marius (Sr. Royal Palm Beach, Florida) led five Jaguar starters averaging in double figure scoring in 2025-26, Marius' 16.3 avg., 6.0 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 1.8 steals on the season.
Senior guards Isaiah Tolbert (Chicago, IL) was named All-CCAC Second team and Javon Johnson (Chicago, IL) and Vincent Mayes were named honorable mention selections on the 2025-26 All-CCAC teams.
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(35) Vincent Mayes - the GovState season school record breaker with 74 blocks in 2025-26, led the conference with 2.5/blocks per game.
Jaguars Dominate Post-Season CCAC Honor Teams For 2025-26!
Regular-season champion Governors State University landed the most men's basketball honors, including three of the top five individual awards, when the Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference announced its postseason honor roll on Tuesday afternoon. The Jaguars' program also boasted the most all-conference selections with four over three groupings.
GSU amassed seven awards after all was said and done. Following closely behind was Olivet Nazarene University with six selections, tournament champion University of St. Francis with five and both Holy Cross College and Trinity Christian College with four each.
Headlining the All-CCAC team - Olivet Nazarene's Eli Edwards (Kokomo, Ind.), who was named the CCAC Player of the Year after ranking among the top 10 performers in no fewer than nine categories. He currently tops the league charts in scoring (22.6 ppg), field goals made (263) and offensive rebounds (81), while placing second in total rebounds (232) and third in field goal percentage (.598) and rebounds per game (8.3).
Edwards also holds the No. 4 spot in total blocks (34) and is fifth in free throws made (97) and free throw percentage (.789).
Edwards was joined on the first team by Indiana Northwest's Ladaion Barnes (Hammond, Ind.), Governors State's Maxwell Marius (Royal Palm Beach, Fla.), St. Ambrose's Guillermo Narbona (Malaga, Spain) and St. Francis' Joffrey Nunnally (Lithia Springs, Fla.).
GovState Maxwell Marius' recognition was one of two that he received. He was also named the CCAC Newcomer of the Year after ranking in the Top 10 in scoring (16.3 ppg) and three other categories. The senior guard's highest mark is his 140 free throws made, which leads the conference.
Marius is also second in steals (55), fifth in field goals made (174) and 12th in rebounding (6.0 rpg). He was joined by teammate Vincent Mayes (Chicago, Ill.) as one of the top performers in the league in 2025-26.
The No. 1 shot blocker in the CCAC and the fifth-best in the nation, Mayes was recognized as the CCAC Defensive Player of the Year. He has also recorded 16 steals and an average of 4.9 rebounds per outing.
Offensively, the senior forward/center had the league's best field goal percentage (.665) and averaged 11.8 points per game and 3.1 assists.
Governors State's success was directed by program founder Tony Bates, who was named the CCAC Coach of the Year. The 11-year veteran coach has led the Jaguars to a 22-9 overall record and a berth in the NAIA National Tournament Opening Round, GSU's second all-time appearance at Nationals (2017-18 - CCAC Regular Season and Tournament Champions).
