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 |
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Egzon Gjonbalaj, Jr. Brooklyn |
G | Velvet Johnson, Sr. Millsaps |
Lucas Hausman, Jr. Bowdoin |
G | Julie Frankian, Sr. Worcester State |
Jordan Rezendes, Jr. Mass-Dartmouth |
G | Stephanie Wong, Jr. Caltech |
Kennedy Drey, So. Buena Vista |
F | Jenna Kotas, Sr. Dubuque |
Andre Norris, Jr. Dubuque |
F | Bria Smith, So. New Jersey City |
Games of Feb. 16-22, 2015 |
Julie Frankian, Worcester State |
Women's
Velvet Johnson
Johnson led the Majors to two key conference wins and helped
Millsaps lock up the SAA regular season. She played all 85 minutes.
Johnson went for 25 points in a win vs. Hendrix while dishing out
six assists. On Sunday, Velvet scored 15 points and dished out five
more assists in the OT win against Rhodes. Her 15 points made her
the all-time leading scorer in Majors' history.
Julie Frankian
Frankian averaged 25.0 points, 6.0 rebounds and 1.5 steals in a
2-0 week for Worcester State including 26 points, six boards and
two swipes in a 61-48 win over Fitchburg State before she notched
24 points with six caroms and four trifectas in a 74-50 victory
over Framingham State. She hit 48.5 percent of her shots for the
week (14-for-29) and went 16-for-19 from the line (84.2 percent)
helping the Lancers clinch a home game in opening round of next
week's MASCAC tournament.
Stephanie Wong
Wong led Caltech to a 2-0 week, which in and of itself is a
sentence that can rarely be said. The Beavers snapped a 64-game
conference losing streak and recorded back-to-back SCIAC wins for
the first time since 2007-08. She poured in 24.5 points per game,
including a career-high 31 to become the program's fastest to reach
1,000 in her career while hitting a program-record seven 3-pointers
in the team's first-ever win over rival Occidental. The SCIAC's
three-point leader drilled 10 threes, shooting 48 percent from long
range, and added 5.5 rebounds, 1.5 assists and 2.5 steals while
hitting 75 percent from the free throw line (9-of-12).
Jenna Kotas
Kotas averaged 23.0 points and 4.0 rebounds while leading the
Spartans to victories over Buena Vista (90-75) and Luther (94-81).
She scored 24 points on 5-of-9 shooting and made 12 of 13 free
throws against Buena Vista, then scored 22 points on 8-of-13
shooting and pulled down five rebounds against the Norse as Dubuque
clinched its first IIAC regular-season title.
Bria Smith
Smith was a decisive factor in an incredible 72-66 comeback win
over Rutgers-Camden. She posted her eighth career 20-point scoring
performance (fourth this season) and her third outing of 25 or more
points. Smith generated her 14th double-double of the season and
24th of her career, scoring 25 points (9-for-21 FG) including
2-for-2 3-point shooting, with 13 rebounds (eight defensive), four
steals and two blocks.
Men's
Egzon Gjonbalaj
Gjonbalaj scored a game-high 26 points in a win over Baruch to
start the week. The 2015 first team all-conference selection later
flirted with a triple-double, finishing with a game-high 10
assists, nine points and seven rebounds in a win over John Jay in
the CUNYAC Quarterfinals.
Lucas Hausman
Hausman scored 25 of his game-high 37 points in the second half as
the Polar Bears rallied from a seven-point halftime deficit to
defeat Williams in the NESCAC quarterfinals Saturday. Hausman was
7-for-9 from the field in second period, almost singlehandedly
matching Williams' second-half score (30-25), gave Bowdoin the lead
for good with under 12 minutes remaining and scored seven points in
a decisive 11-0 run for the Polar Bears.
Jordan Rezendes
Rezendes averaged 41 points, eight rebounds, and 3.5 assists per
game to help UMass Dartmouth split a pair of Little East Conference
contests. He scored a career-high 51 points to establish a Corsair
single-game scoring record, putting an additional nine points
between the previous standard. Rezendes poured in 33 of his
51 points in the second half to lead UMass Dartmouth past Keene
State and earn the No. 3 seed in the conference tournament.
Earlier in the week, he registered a double-double of 31
points and 10 rebounds at Rhode Island College.
Kennedy Drey
Drey posted a career-high in points (26) at Dubuque which
propelled the team to capture the outright Iowa Conference title.
Drey turned in 19 of his 21 points at Coe in the first half. He
shot better than 73 percent from the field for the week and now has
three straight double-doubles and four in the last five
games.
Andre Norris
Norris averaged 32 points, 6.0 rebounds, 3.0 assists, 2.5 rebounds
and 1.5 steals as Dubuque split a pair of games to lock up a top-3
seed in the IIAC tournament for the fifth straight season. He
scored 32 points, pulled down six rebounds, had four assists and
four blocks in 37 minutes in a 94-80 loss to Buena Vista. Norris
shot 10-of-22 from the floor with five 3-pointers and was 7-of-8
from the free-throw line. In the regular-season finale against
Luther, he netted another 32 points on 11-of-18 shooting with
another six rebounds in 33 minutes as the Spartans topped the
Norse, 77-63. Norris averaged 31.5 points against Luther, which
finished the year with the league's No. 2 scoring defense (67.8
ppg).