The 2011–12 CAA men's basketball season marked the 27th season of

Colonial Athletic Association The Coastal Athletic Association (CAA), formerly the ECAC South Conference and the Colonial Athletic Association, is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA' ...

men's basketball, taking place between November 2011 and March 2012. Practices commenced in October 2011, and the season ended with the

2012 CAA men's basketball tournament The 2012 Colonial Athletic Association men's basketball tournament was held March 2–5 at the Richmond Coliseum in Richmond, VA to crown a champion of the Colonial Athletic Association. The tournament winner, Virginia Commonwealth University, re ...

Preseason

Coaching changes

Ron Hunter Ronald Eugene Hunter (born April 7, 1964) is an American college basketball coach and the men's basketball head coach of the Tulane University Green Wave. His son, R. J. Hunter, was a first-round NBA draft pick for the Boston Celtics. High sc ...

was hired to be the new head coach for Georgia State on March 21, 2011. *

Pat Skerry Patrick Joseph Skerry (born January 21, 1970) is the head coach of the Towson Tigers men's basketball, Towson University Tigers men's basketball team. Biography Playing career Skerry played collegiate basketball at Tufts University where he set ...

replaced

Pat Kennedy Joseph Patrick Kennedy (born January 5, 1952) is an American former college basketball coach and player. He was previously the men's basketball coach at Towson University, Iona College (New York), Iona College, Florida State University, DePaul ...

as head coach for Towson after finishing 0–18 in CAA play during the 2010–11 season.

Preseason poll

Preseason All-Conference Teams

CAA Preseason Player of the Year:

Kent Bazemore Kenneth Lamont Bazemore Jr. (born July 1, 1989) is an American professional basketball player for the Capital City Go-Go of the NBA G League. As a junior at Old Dominion University in 2010–11, Bazemore won the Lefty Driesell Award, an award giv ...

, Old Dominion

Regular season

Head coaches

Monté Ross Monté Ross (born August 11, 1970) is an American college basketball coach, currently the head coach at North Carolina A&T. He previously served as the head men's basketball coach at the University of Delaware The University of Delaware ( ...

, Delaware *

Bruiser Flint James "Bruiser" Flint (born July 23, 1965) is an American men's college basketball coach, currently an assistant coach at Arkansas Razorbacks men's basketball, Arkansas. He was most recently the head coach at Drexel University. Collegiate playin ...

, Drexel *

Paul Hewitt Paul Harrington Hewitt (born May 4, 1963) is an American college basketball coach and the former head coach at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) and George Mason University. He grew up in Westbury, New York. In 2021, he was named t ...

, George Mason *

, Georgia State *

Mo Cassara Richard Morgan “Mo” Cassara (born July 10, 1973) is an American basketball coach and was Hofstra University's men's head coach from 2010–2013. Cassara was named head coach on May 5, 2010, agreeing to a multi-year deal with the university ...

, Hofstra *

Matt Brady Matt Brady (born October 1, 1965) is an American college basketball coach who is an assistant for the High Point Panthers men's basketball, High Point Panthers. He is a former head coach at James Madison Dukes men's basketball, James Madison, Mar ...

, James Madison *

Bill Coen Bill Coen (born May 3, 1961) is an American college basketball coach and the current head men's basketball coach at the Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts), Northeastern University. He was previously an assistant coach under Al Skin ...

, Northeastern *

Blaine Taylor Blaine Taylor (born January 14, 1958) is a former American college basketball coach most well known for being the head coach of the Old Dominion Monarchs men's basketball team from 2001 until 2013. Taylor played as a point guard for the Unive ...

, Old Dominion *

, Towson *

Buzz Peterson Robert Bower "Buzz" Peterson Jr. (born May 17, 1963) is an American basketball executive who is the assistant general manager for the Charlotte Hornets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He has also coached college basketball, most re ...

, UNC Wilmington *

Shaka Smart Shaka Dingani Smart (born April 8, 1977) is an American men's college basketball coach and former college basketball player. He is the current head men's basketball coach at Marquette University. Smart rose to prominence in 2011 after leading Vi ...

, VCU *

Tony Shaver Tony Shaver (born January 28, 1954) is an American college basketball coach. From the 2003–04 through 2018–19 seasons, he was the head men's basketball coach at the College of William & Mary. He arrived at William & Mary after a 17-year tenu ...

, William & Mary ;Notes:

Rankings

Postseason

Conference tournament

* March 2–5, 2012: Colonial Athletic Association Men's Basketball Tournament,

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VCU defeated Drexel, 59–56, in the finals of the 2012 CAA tournament to win the conference. They earned an automatic bid to the 2012 NCAA tournament.

Bracket

NCAA tournament

The CAA had one bid to the NCAA Division I tournament, that being the automatic bid of the VCU Rams.

References

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