The 2020–21 CAA men's basketball season narked the 35th 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' ...
basketball, taking place between November 2020 and March 2021. The season began with practices in November 2020, followed by the start of the
2020–21 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
The 2020–21 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began on November 25, 2020, and concluded on March 14, 2021. The 2021 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament culminated the season and began on March 18 and concluded on April 5.
Season ...
in late November, delayed due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...
. The season ended with the
2021 CAA men's basketball tournament.
Head coaches
Coaching changes
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Takayo Siddle
Takayo Lemont Siddle (born May 25, 1986) is an American basketball coach (basketball), coach who is the current head coach of the UNC Wilmington Seahawks men's basketball team.
Playing career
Siddle was a basketball standout at John Motley Moreh ...
replaced
C. B. McGrath
Colin Bryan McGrath (born November 21, 1975) is an American college basketball coach, most recently the head coach at UNC Wilmington Seahawks men's basketball, UNC Wilmington. McGrath previously served under Roy Williams (coach), Roy Williams a ...
as UNC Wilmington head coach.
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Mark Byington
Mark Byington (born April 22, 1976) is an American basketball coach and former player who is currently the head men's basketball coach at Vanderbilt University. He previously served as the head basketball coach at James Madison University.
High ...
replaced
Louis Rowe
Louis Benton Rowe (born December 26, 1972) is an American basketball coach who most recently was the head coach of his alma mater, James Madison University, being introduced as the head coach on March 31, 2016. Rowe had been an assistant at James ...
as James Madison head coach.
Coaches
''Notes:''
* All records, appearances, titles, etc. are from time with current school only.
* Year at school includes 2020–21 season.
* Overall and CAA records are from time at current school and are through the end of the 2019–20 season.
Preseason
Preseason poll
Source
''() first place votes''
Preseason All-Conference Teams
Source
Colonial Athletic Association Preseason Player of the Year:
Matt Lewis (James Madison)
Regular season
Rankings
Conference matrix
This table summarizes the head-to-head results between teams in conference play.
Postseason
Colonial Athletic Association tournament
NCAA tournament
The CAA had one bid to the
2021 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament
The 2021 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament was a single-elimination tournament of 68 teams to determine the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I men's college basketball national champion for the 2020–21 seaso ...
, that being the automatic bid of Drexel by winning the conference tournament.
National Invitation tournament
College Basketball Invitational
CollegeInsider.com Postseason tournament
Awards and honors
Regular season
CAA Player-of-the-Week
* Nov. 30 – Jaylen Sims (UNCW)
* Dec. 7 – Camren Wynter (Drexel)
* Dec. 14 – Tyson Walker (Northeastern)
* Dec. 21 – Jalen Ray (Hofstra)
* Dec. 28 – Jalen Ray (Hofstra) (2)
* Jan. 4 – Isaac Kante (Hofstra)
* Jan. 11 – Tyson Walker (Northeastern) (2)
* Jan. 18 –
Matt Lewis (James Madison), Dylan Painter (Delaware)
* Jan. 25 – Tareq Coburn (Hofstra)
* Feb. 1 – Connor Kochera (William & Mary)
* Feb. 8 – Zep Jasper (Charleston)
* Feb. 15 – Tyson Walker (Northeastern) (3)
* Feb. 22 – Darius Burford (Elon)
* Mar. 1 – Camren Wynter (Drexel) (2)
CAA Rookie-of-the-Week
* Nov. 30 – Connor Kochera (William & Mary)
* Dec. 7 – Kvonn Cramer (Hofstra)
* Dec. 14 – Jahmyl Telfort (Northeastern)
* Dec. 21 – Yuri Covington (William & Mary)
* Dec. 28 – Kvonn Cramer (Hofstra) (2)
* Jan. 4 – Jahmyl Telfort (Northeastern) (2)
* Jan. 11 – Justin Amadi (James Madison)
* Jan. 18 – Andrew Carr (Delaware)
* Jan. 25 – Jahmyl Telfort (Northeastern) (3)
* Feb. 1 – Kvonn Cramer (Hofstra) (3)
* Feb. 8 – Terell Strickland (James Madison)
* Feb. 15 – Terrence Edwards (James Madison)
* Feb. 22 – Darius Burford (Elon)
* Mar. 1 – Darius Burford (Elon) (2)
Postseason
CAA All-Conference Teams and Awards
Attendance
References
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