COLONIA, N.J. – Three East Coast Conference (ECC) men’s basketball student-athletes were named to the 2025-26 Division II Conference Commissioners Association (D2CCA) All-East Region team on Thursday morning.
The team was selected by the 30 eligible institutions (30 schools and three conference offices) in the region.

Daemen University junior guard Zach Philipkoski and College of Staten Island junior guard Aaron Goldstein were named to the first team, while Daemen redshirt junior center Benjamin Bill was named to the second team.

Fresh off being named the 2026 East Coast Conference Player of the Year, Philipkoski is shooting 50.6 percent from the field and averaging a team-high 17.5 points, along with 7.1 rebounds and 3.7 assists per game. In his impressive junior campaign, Philipkoski is Daemen's biggest threat from beyond the arc and averages 2.3 triples per game (third in the league) and ranks second in the ECC, shooting 40 percent from the three-point line. Philipkoski was named to the ECC All-Tournament Team after averaging 15 points and five rebounds per game en route to Daemen's second consecutive ECC Tournament championship this past weekend. He has scored in double figure in all but two games this season, with 12 outings of 20 points or more to his credit. He ranks fourth in scoring, seventh in rebounding, and assists among the ECC's leaders. The third Daemen player to earn ECC Player of the Year honors over six years, Philipkoski scored his 1,000th career point in the ECC final on Sunday. He becomes the third Wildcat to earn First Team All-D2CCA honors, joining Bill (2025) and Andrew Sischo (2019, 20, 21, 22). Philipkoski was named to the Bevo Francis Top 50 Watch List this season. 

Goldstein was the forefront of the Dolphins' scoring offense throughout his record breaking junior season. As a consistent scorer for the Dolphins, the guard led the East Coast Conference (ECC) with an average of 21.2 points per game while also averaging 3.0 three point field goals made per contest. In addition to his ranks in the conference, the junior sits 12th in the nation with his ppg average putting him among the top-scorers in the nation.
During the year, Goldstein etched his name into both the CSI men's basketball all-time and Division II era record books. He currently holds a career free throw percentage of .852 (241-283), which sits him first throughout both eras of CSI men's basketball.

Goldstein also recorded the program's Division II single-game scoring record with a 40-point performance against Tampa and set the Division II single-season scoring mark with 615 total points. In just three seasons, Goldstein joined the 1,000-point club, the fourth in Division II for the program, and currently ranks second in CSI's Division II era with 1,264 career points.

Over the course of the 2025–26 campaign, Goldstein was named ECC Player of the Week three times, earned Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association (MBWA) Player of the Week honors twice and was also selected to the ECC First Team for the first time in his collegiate career.

Bill earns D2CCA all-region honors for the second year in a row, being named to the D2CCA Second Team in 2026. Daemen's big man returned to the Wildcat lineup after being named the 2025 ECC Player of the Year and a consensus All-American and picked up right where he left off last season, earning ECC weekly awards three times early in the year before suffering an injury. The 6-foot-10 center left Daemen's game at Mercy on Dec. 12 and missed the next 11 games. He returned to the lineup Jan. 31 vs. Roberts Wesleyan and reached double figures in seven of the last nine games. Surging in the latter part of the season, Bill has posted seven double-doubles and is averaging 16.0 points, 7.9 rebounds and 1.8 blocks per game while shooting an impressive 65.8 percent from the field and was named the 2026 Most Outstanding Player of the ECC Tournament. The Daemen big man was named to the Bevo Francis Top 50 Watch List for the second straight season. Bill becomes the fourth Wildcat to earn Second Team D2CCA honors, joining Justin Hemphill (2025), Sean Fasoyiro (2024), and Torrence Dyck (2016).