The Team of the Week was in its ninth season in 2005-06, recognizing the top performance at each of the five positions from the previous week.

Dates: Jan. 3-8, 2006

Women

Katie Kulavic
Kulavic averaged 20.7 points, 8.3 rebounds, 6.7 assists and 4.7 steals to lead the Petrels to three SCAC wins this week. Against Millsaps she scored 27 points, adding 11 rebounds and six steals. In an overtime win versus Rhodes she recorded 17 points, 11 assists and eight rebounds. Kulavic finished up the week with 18 points, seven assists, six rebounds and five steals against Hendrix.

Katy Herr
Herr averaged 11 points, 5.6 assists, 4.5 rebounds and 3.7 steals in leading the Eagles to a 3-1 record on the week. She led the Eagles to an 83-81 double-overtime victory over then-No. 7 Randolph-Macon as the Eagles snapped the Yellow Jackets 30-game ODAC regular season winning streak. Herr scored 18 points, including the game winning basket with two seconds left in the second overtime. She also added eight rebounds, five steals and three assists and played all 50 minutes.

Keli Ward
For the week, Ward averaged 16.0 points, eight rebounds, 6.5 assists and four steals per game. She hit on 61.9% (13-of-21) of her shots from the field. In a 72-71 loss to Hood, Ward had a career-high 19 points in addition to having seven rebounds and eight assists. Ward tallied 13 points, nine rebounds, five assists and six steals in a 75-61 win against Rowan.

Latrese McNair
McNair became the NJCU’s all-time leader in career steals, while earning All-Tournament team distinction in leading the Gothic Knights to the championship game of the Presidents’ Classic. She averaged 18.0 points, 6.7 steals, four assists, 2.7 rebounds and two blocks per game.

Rita Willis
Willis averaged 19 points, 12.7 rebounds and 4.7 assists in Hood's 2-1 week. She scored 21 points and grabbed a career-high 18 rebounds in a 71-65 win over Chestnut Hill and followed with 19 points, 13 rebounds and seven assists and the game-winning jumper with nine seconds left in a 72-71 win at York (Pa.).

Men

Drew Gensler
In Millikin’s only game of the week, Gensler scored a career-high 37 points, adding four rebounds and four assists, in an 82-75 win at then-No. 16 Elmhurst.

Keven Bradley
Bradley scored a career-high 33 points and was perfect from the field (8-for-8, five of which were from behind the arc) in Lawrence's 83-75 win over Ripon on Saturday. He scored the final 20 points of the game for the Vikings.

Sean Wheeler
Wheeler scored a career-high 27 points — adding nine rebounds — in a win over UT-Dallas on Thursday. He was 12-of-14 from the field (85.7%). On Saturday he bettered his career-high with 30 points to lead the Jackets past UT-Tyler. He also pulled down 10 rebounds.

Gian Paul Gonzalez
Gonzalez averaged 36.5 points and 12 rebounds per contest as he helped Montclair State to a pair of road victories. After a 37-point, 12-rebound performance versus Rutgers-Camden in a 96-80 win, he put up 36 points and 12 rebounds as MSU won 98-87 at Rowan in overtime. Gonzalez hit all 31 of his free throws in those two games.

Brandon Crawford
Crawford, who was named the MIAA player of the week, averaged 24 points, 10.5 rebounds and three assists in a 2-0 week for Albion. He finished with 17 points, 14 rebounds and five assists in a 75-58 win over Adrian. Crawford finished up the week by making 14-of-16 field goals for 31 points in an 86-75 win over Tri-State.