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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sam Longwell, Sr. WPI |
G | Caitlin Kriesel-Bigler, Jr. Hendrix |
| Steve Simonds, Jr. St. Joseph's (Maine) |
G | Molly Maclachlan, Fr. SUNYIT |
| Hakeem Harris, Jr. NYU |
G | Jacole Hairston, Sr. Ferrum |
| Cody Deal, Jr. DeSales |
F | Hannah McGinnis, Sr. Illinois College |
| Aaron Griffin, Sr. Webster |
F | C | Valerie Dunlap, Sr. Washington and Jefferson |
| Games of Jan. 19-25, 2015 | ||
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| Valerie Dunlap, by Martin Sanek photography for W&J athletics |
Women's
Caitlin Kriesel-Bigler
Kriesel-Bigler averaged 21.0 points and 8.5 assists per game to
lead the Warriors to a pair of home conference victories. In
Friday's 70-64 win over Sewanee, she scored 23 points and dished
out a career-high 11 assists, the fourth most in program history.
Kriesel-Bigler scored 19 points to go with six assists, three
rebounds, a block and a steal in Sunday's 70-61 victory over
Centre. She only committed four turnovers in 71 minutes over the
two games. Kriesel-Bigler also went 19-of-21 at the free throw line
(90.5 percent).
Molly Maclachlan
Maclachlan had a 30-point outing in a win vs. Penn College, the
most by a freshman in program history, as part of a 3-0 week in
which she scored 20 or more in each game. She shot 14-for-27 from
3-point range for the week, as well as 57 percent from the floor,
en route to averaging 25.3 points and 7.0 rebounds.
Jacole Hairston
Hairston had a career-high 39 points in an 80-67 win over
Piedmont, handing the Lions just their second loss of the season.
She scored 21 points in a 66-58 loss to Greensboro. Hairson
averaged 4.5 rebounds and 3.0 steals to go with the 30 points,
shooting 54 percent from the floor, 4-for-10 from 3-point range and
12-for-14 from the line.
Hannah McGinnis
McGinnis had two big performances this week, helping Illinois
College split a tough set of games against Knox and Carroll.
Playing Knox, McGinnis set a Midwest Conference record with 27
rebounds and scored 35 points on 14-of-20 shooting as the Lady
Blues pulled away from the Prairie Fire for an 89-62 win. Now, Knox
plays the Grinnell system, where easy shots are easy to find for
opponents, but McGinnins added 26 points and 16 boards vs. Carroll
as well. For the week, she averaged 30.5 points and 21.5 rebounds
while shooting 68.8 percent from the floor.
Valerie Dunlap
Dunlap posted her second- and third-straight double-doubles with a
pair against PAC foes this week, averaging 18.0 points, 12.5
rebounds and 5.0 blocks, while connecting on 59.3 percent of her
shots in wins over Westminster and Grove City. She had a
double-double by halftime against the Titans, with 11/11/5 at the
break and finished with 11 points, 13 boards and five blocks in
just 22 minutes. Against Grove City, she equaled her career high
with 25 points and added 12 rebounds and five blocks and made 68.8
percent (11-of-16) of her field goal attempts.
Men's
Sam Longwell
Longwell averaged 17.5 points and 8.5 rebounds as the Engineers
won a pair of contests last week. The senior erupted for a
game-best 24 points, 12 rebounds and a career-high 10 assists
without a turnover in WPI's 92-68 victory vs. Wheaton (Mass.).
Longwell, who had a first half for the ages against the Lyons with
22 points and eight assists before intermission, also tossed in 11
points and added five rebounds and three assists Wednesday in a
63-42 triumph over Clark. For the week, he had 13 assists and just
one turnover in 56 minutes.
Steve Simonds
Simonds averaged 30.3 points, 10.3 rebounds, 5.7 assists and 1.7
steals with double-doubles in all three conference contests. The
senior guard scored a career-high 40 points - the first SJC player
to do so in 17 years - with 11 boards and seven assists in a win
over Mount Ida. The third-year starter followed up with 30 points,
10 caroms and five dimes in a victory over Norwich and tallied 21
points, 10 rebounds and five assists versus No. 9 Albertus Magnus.
Simonds shot 64.3 percent (27-for-42) from the field, 62.5 percent
(15-for-24) from 3-point distance and 78.6 percent (22-for-28) from
the free-throw line.
Hakeem Harris
Harris was the driving force as NYU defeated two top-25 teams,
including No. 4 Wash U. Scoring from long range and drives to the
hoop, Harris scored a game-best 24 points and connected on six
3-pointers in each game. Against Washington on Friday, he went
8-for-16 from the field, including 6-for-10 from behind the arc. He
also had three steals, two assists and a rebound. Against No. 21
Chicago on Sunday, he shot 8-for-15 from the field and 6-for-11
from 3-point range, and added two assists. He came off the bench in
both contests.
Cody Deal
Deal averaged 25.0 points and 5.5 reboudns to lead DeSales to a
2-0 record last week, including handing Delaware Valley its first
Freedom Conference loss of the season. Deal came just four points
shy of the single-game record at DeSales with 37 points in a win
over Wilkes. He shot 51 percent from the floor, 54 percent from
beyond the arc and 88 percent from the line for the week.
Aaron Griffin
Griffin averaged a double-double (18 points, 11 rebounds) in two
games for the Gorloks, including shooting 12-for-19 from the floor
and 12-for-14 from the line. Griffin has five double-doubles in his
past seven games.