The Team of the Week presented by Scoutware is
D3hoops.com's weekly honor roll, in its 17th season of recognizing
the top performance at each of the five positions from the previous
week.
| Men | Pos. | Women |
|---|---|---|
| Brandon Gould, Sr. Howard Payne |
G | Karisa Cantu, Sr. Texas Lutheran |
| DeJuan Smith, Fr. Albright |
G | Breanna Verkaik, Sr. Calvin |
| Ty Sabin, So. Ripon |
G | Lindsey Nichols, Jr. McDaniel |
| Wale Abraham, Jr. Mass-Dartmouth |
F | Lauren Hancher, Jr. Wooster |
| Thayne Recker, Jr. Bluffton |
F | Kelsea Daugherty, Fr. Bethany |
| Games of Jan. 26-Feb. 1, 2015 | ||
Men's
Brandon Gould
Gould averaged 24.0 points and averaged 6.0 assists per game in
wins over UT-Dallas and Hardin-Simmons. He scored 17 and pulled
down seven rebounds with five assists in the UTD win. Gould then
followed that up with 31 points on 12 of 15 (80 percent) shooting,
five rebounds and seven assists at HSU. He was 4-of-5 from behind
the arc and 6-for-7 from the line for the week, to go along with
65.5 percent shooting from the floor (19-for-29).
DeJuan Smith
Smith led Albright to a 2-0 week with victories over Widener and
Lebanon Valley. He went 15-for-15 from the foul line against
Widener on his way to 23 points, while adding 22 vs. Lebanon
Valley, with a pair of free throws with 0.4 seconds left in a 78-77
win. Smith averaged 22.5 points and 2.5 rebounds per game, while
shooting 56 percent from the floor, 63 percent from 3-point range
and 95.2 percent (20-for-21) from the line.
Ty Sabin
After averaging 34 points per game in two games last week, Sabin
is now tied for the NCAA scoring lead, across all divisions, with
29.1 points per game. He shot 68 percent from the floor
(25-for-37), 5-for-12 from 3-point range and 13-for-14 from the
line. He also averaged 4.5 rebounds and 3.0 assists.
Wale Abraham
Abraham averaged 19 points and 10.5 rebounds per game to help Mass
Dartmouth post a 2-0 mark against Little East Conference opponents.
He shot 88.9 percent (16-for-18) from the field to reach
double digits in points in each contest. Abraham recorded a monster
double-double with career-highs in points (24) and rebounds (19) to
help the Corsairs earn a road win at Western Connecticut. Earlier
in the week, he netted 14 points, on 5-for-6, in the victory over
Rhode Island College.
Thayne Recker
Recker set the HCAC single-game scoring record in the Beavers'
103-102 triple overtime win over Hanover. He punished the Panthers
with 53 points, on 14-of-24 shooting, and added a career-high 15
rebounds. He averaged 36.0 points, 13.5 rebounds and 2.5 blocked
shots for the week.
Women's
Karisa Cantu
Cantu scored 20.5 points and averaged 5.0 assists per game in
helping the Bulldogs to a 2-0 week. She was an even 50 percent from
the field over the weekend, knocking down 10 of 20 shots, including
4-of-8 from 3-point land. She also consistently got to the free
throw line, making 17-of-20 from the stripe. Cantu shot 7-of-11
from the field in a 92-75 win against the University of Dallas,
including 3-of-4 from the 3-point line. She scored 19 of her 25
points in the second half.
Breanna Verkaik
Verkaik averaged 20.0 points a game and connected on seven of 13
(53.8 percent) from 3-point range in leading Calvin to conference
road victories at Albion and Trine this past week to keep the
nationally ranked Knights undefeated at 19-0, 10-0 in league
play.
Lindsey Nichols
Nichols averaged 23.7 points per game to lead the Green Terror
(18-1, 12-1 CC) to a 3-0 week. She reset her career high with 29
points in a 67-58 win at Johns Hopkins on Tuesday before matching
that total two nights later in a 74-66 win at Washington College.
In a battle for first place on Saturday, she tallied 13 points in a
63-52 win over Muhlenberg. She shot 38.9 percent from the field for
the week, including hitting 12 of 28 3-point attempts (42.9
percent). She also went 17-for-22 from the free-throw line and
added 13 rebounds, five assists, seven steals and two blocked
shots.
Lauren Hancher
In Wooster's lone action of the week, Hancher scored a
school-record 40 points (previous best was 38 by D3hoops.com
All-American Katie Montague on Jan. 3, 1998) plus registered career
highs in both assists (four) and steals (five) and pulled down five
rebounds. Hancher, who shot 15-of-24 from the field (.625) and
10-of-11 at the free throw line (.909), was just the 10th in D-III
to reach the 40-point club this year.
Kelsea Daugherty
Daugherty helped the Bison post a 2-0 record, averaging a gaudy 27
points and 14 rebounds in posting her league-leading seventh and
eighth double-doubles of the season. She posted career highs
against Geneva, finishing the contest with 27 points and 16 boards.
She then followed that with a 27-point, 12 rebound night against
Thiel.