Team of the Week

The Team of the Week was in its third season in 1999-2000, recognizing the top performance at each of the five positions from the previous week.

Men Pos. Women
Frank Deluca
Jr., Widener
G Angela Vicari
Jr., NYU
Pat Britton
Sr., Ithaca
G Kerri Brown
Fr., Ithaca
Aaron Winkle
Sr., Calvin
F Tasha Rodgers
Jr., Washington U.
Sterling Marshall
Sr., Wentworth
F Kendra Meyer
Jr., Capital
Brant Bailey
Sr., UW-Stevens Point
C Alia Fischer
Sr., Washington U.
Games of Feb. 7-13, 2000.  

Women's

Angela Vicari 
Vicari averaged 30.0 points per game and shot 80 percent (24-for-30) from the field in NYU's last two games. On Friday night in a 78-55 win against Carnegie Mellon, Vicari hit 12 of 15 shots to total 25 points and added five rebounds. In the Violets' second win of the weekend, Vicari registered 35 points, again on 12-of-15 shooting from the field, to boost the Violets 78-53 over Emory. In Sunday's game, Vicari went 9-for-11 from the free-throw line, 2-for-2 from 3-point range and grabbed six rebounds. She also added game highs in assists (five) and steals (four).

Kerri Brown 
Ithaca's point guard scored career-high 21 points in win over Nazareth, then topped that total 20 hours later with 23 in a win over RIT. On the week she was 5-for-7 from 3-point land, 7-for-8 from the charity stripe, and pulled in 20 rebounds in three games. She also added eight assists to the mix.

Tasha Rodgers 
Averaging 17.3 points a game, Rodgers scored a game-high 22 in Sunday's record-tying 60th consecutive win, against Rochester, where she was 10-for-11 from the field. She was also perfect on the week (8-for-8) from the free-throw line.

Kendra Meyer 
Kendra Meyer registered a double-double with 15 points and 16 rebounds in Capital's 83-62 victory against Marietta. In her next game, Meyer tallied her 10th double-double of the season with 23 points and 13 boards as Capital topped Otterbein 79-70 to reach the 20-win mark for the 11th consecutive season. In two games, Meyer averaged 19.5 points and 14.5 rebounds for Capital.

Alia Fischer 
The senior captain of the undefeated, two-time national champions had another solid week. In Friday's matchup against Case Western Reserve, she totaled 24 points, rung up six rebounds, had three assists, a block and five steals.

Men's

Frank Deluca 
DeLuca scored 22 points against Elizabethtown, including 17 points in the first half. He shot 7-for-8 from the field and 3-for-3 from 3-point range in the first half alone and finished the game at 9-for-13 and 4-for-7. He reached the 20-point mark for the fourth consecutive game and added six assists. DeLuca closed out the week with 17 points at Juniata. He shot 6-for-10 from the field, three from long range. For the week DeLuca shot 65 percent from the field (15-for-23) and 50 percent from 3-point range (7-for-14).

Pat Britton 
Scored 29 points in 64-53 upset of No. 24 Rochester Tech, including 6-for-6 from the free-throw line in the game's final two minutes. In his next contest he led the Bombers to a victory over Nazareth with 22 points. Britton has now raised his career total to 1,360 points, ranking fourth on Ithaca's career list.

Aaron Winkle 
In what is annually billed as THE Game, this year the matchup will be remembered by THE Shot. With Calvin trailing 68-65 Winkle collected a baseball pass just beyond midcourt, took a pair of dribbles and launched a fadeaway 3-pointer from the left side of the arc that banked off the glass, rattled off the rim and fell through the hoop to tie the score at 68-68 with six seconds left in regulation. Calvin would go on to win, behind Winkle's 22 points and eight rebounds. In Saturday's victory against Olivet, he added another 17 points and seven rebounds to lead the Knights to a 101-71 victory.

Sterling Marshall 
Became school's all-time leading scorer (male or female) with a 23-point performance against New England College on Feb. 9 and now has 1,850 points. on the week the team was 2-1, while Sterling averaged 20.7 points per game. He also averaged 7.7 rebounds per game, and had four steals.

Brant Bailey
Averaged 25.5 points in the two wins that clinched the WIAC regular-season title. Bailey broke WIAC records for free throws attempted and free throws made on the season, while this week he was 15-for-20 from the charity stripe. He also averaged 11 rebounds, and shot 53 percent from the floor.