Team of the Week

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: Dec. 12-18, 2005

Men Pos. Women
John Cagianello
Sr., Union
G Suzy Doughty
Jr., DePauw
Scott Stone
Sr., Washington U.
G Nofi Mojidi
Fr., Chicago
Eric Downie
Jr. , Salem State
F | G Meia Daniels
So., Howard Payne
Kenny McMillan
Sr., SUNY-Farmingdale
F Lindsey Watkins
So., Salem State
Evan Walters
Sr., Wilkes
C | F Meghann Savard
Sr., Defiance

Women

Suzy Doughty
Doughty equaled a career high with 19 points and set one with six steals in a 85-70 win over Wittenberg. The 5-9 point guard committed no turnovers in 25 minutes, while dishing out four assists.

Nofi Mojidi
Mojidi averaged 17.3 points, 5.7 rebounds and 2.7 steals as 22nd-ranked Chicago won three games on the road to improve to 9-0 on the season. She turned in back-to-back 20-point efforts with 21 against St. Catherine and 22 against Augsburg. The freshman guard had only four turnovers in 70 minutes.

Meia Daniels
Daniels tallied 18 points, 13 rebounds and five steals in a 54-28 win against Sul Ross State. She led the Howard Payne defense which held Sul Ross to only 11 field goals the entire game.

Lindsey Watkins
Watkins recorded 25 points, 11 rebounds and two steals in the Viking's 71-61 upset win over No. 1-ranked Southern Maine. She shot 8-of-12 from the field (67%) and 9-of-12 from the charity stripe (75%). A back-and-forth exchanged followed and the Huskies took a slim one-point advantage, 55-54, with 6:08 remaining. Salem State countered with a 9-0 spurt to take the lead for good. Watkins netted four of her team’s nine points in the run to give the Vikings a commanding 63-55 lead with 3:23 left in the game.

Meghann Savard
Savard averaged 32 points and 16 rebounds in two wins and was named the MVP of the Hubbard Co./Pro-Rehab Classic. In an 101-96 overtime win over Berea, she posted a game-high 33 points and 23 rebounds. She was 12-of-18 from the field and 9-of-12 from the free throw line with two blocked shots. For the tournament, she shot 20-for-29 from the field (69%) and 24-for-30 from the free throw line (80%). Savard was named Heartland Conference Player of the Week for her efforts.

Men

John Cagianello
Cagianello posted his fourth 30-plus scoring performance of the season in Union's 72-71 win over Washington & Jefferson. After a tied game at the half, he scored 22 of his 36 points — hitting on 7-of-9 from the floor — in the second half. W&J went on a 7-0 run to take a 70-68 lead with 57 seconds left, when Cagianello hit a jumper to tie it with 41 seconds remaining. He shot 12-of-17 from the field (71%), 5-of-8 from behind the arc (63%) and 7-of-8 from the foul line (88%) in the win.

Scott Stone
Stone scored a career-high 46 points in the Bears 104-69 win over Fontbonne. He connected on 16-of-23 field goals (70%), and finished just one point shy of tying the school record for points in a game. Stone made a school-record 14 three-pointers (out of 21), and finished the game with four rebounds, two assists and two steals. In 31 minutes of action, he committed no turnovers.

Eric Downie
Downie scored 32 points, pulled down 11 rebounds and blocked three shots in a 92-81 win over Southern Maine. With the scored tied at 69 points apiece with 6:49 left in the game, the Vikings used a pivotal 7-0 run to break away from the Huskies to take a 76-69 lead with 4:53 to play. Downie netted four points in the run for Salem State knocking down both ends of a one-and-one before grabbing an offensive rebound and hitting the put back.

Kenny McMillan
After a 12-point, eight-rebound performance in a 68-59 loss to New Jersey, McMillan led the Rams to a 103-102 triple-overtime victory at Manhattanville. In the win, he netted 35 points on 14-of-23 shooting (61%) while grabbing 13 rebounds and five steals.

Evan Walters
Walters tossed in a career-high 34 points and tied a career-high with 15 rebounds in Wilkes' 107-99 overtime win over 17th-ranked Lincoln. The 6-8 Walters cashed in 12-of-14 field goal attempts and also hit on 10-of-15 free throws. He added six blocked shots, four assists and three steals, while committing only two turnovers in 40 minutes of action.