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The Team of the Week presented by Scoutware is D3hoops.com's weekly honor roll, in its 25th season of recognizing the top performance at each of the five positions from the previous week.

Women's

Katie McCrary

McCrary averaged 19 points, five rebounds, and four assists on the week, but her best performance came at the end of Otterbein's upset victory over No. 13 John Carroll. Down four with four minutes remaining, McCrary scored the next 12 points for the Cardinals, securing the lead and the win.

Damaris Rodriguez

Rodriguez led the Gothic Knights to a 2-0 record this week with wins over Rowan and Montclair State. She averaged 19 points per game to go with 10 rebounds and eight assists per game. Rodriguez began with a game-high 23 points to go with a game-best 11 assists and a team-high nine rebounds in the 73-59 win over Rowan. Then, in NJCU's first regular season win at Montclair State in program history (dating to its inception in 1970), Rodriguez recorded 15 points and 10 rebounds to go with five dimes and two steals over the full 40 minutes in the 59-55 win at the Red Hawks.

Julia Strand

Strand led Chapman to a 2-0 week that was highlighted by an 85-75 win vs, Occidental and a 63-47 win against Claremont-Mudd-Scripps. Strand averaged 24 points per game during the week including 29 in the win against the Tigers. She shot 46% from the field and 77% from the free-throw line. She also dished out 10 assists, registered four steals, and blocked three shots to go along with 18 rebounds. 

Hanna Geistfeld

Geistfeld shot 73% from the floor, averaging 35 points, 17 rebounds, and five assists over two important conference wins.

Mac-Dege Dessources

Dessources led York to a 3-1 week that saw her average 25 points, 16 rebounds, three assists, two blocks, and a steal per game while shooting 54% percent from the field.  She opened the week at Baruch, scoring 43 of her team's 77 points in the win.

Men's

Meikyle Murray

Murray averaged 30 points and 11 rebounds, shooting 68% from the floor, 8-of-11 from the foul line, and 6-of-11 from three as the Warriors extended their winning streak to four. he had a career-high 32 points against Rhode Island College and put in another 28 in defeating Southern Maine.

Calvin Cheek

Cheek, already the NCAA All-Division career steals leader added to his total, but fell one short of a quadruple double, during NEC's comeback conference win over Eastern Nazarene (16 points, 18 rebounds, 10 assists, nine steals). Cheek averaged 16 points, 13 rebounds, seven assists, and eight steals per game on the week -- along with two blocks per game.

Chris Mikos

Mikos averaged 34 points, 13 rebounds, six assists, and two steals, all while shooting 64% over a three-game stretch for the week. The highlight of the week was a 49-point, 11-rebound, seven-assist performance against Hunter, but also scored 25 points per game the rest of the week.

Bobby Hawkinson

Hawkinson led NYU to a 3-0 week and the team's first UAA road weekend sweep since 2015-16, with wins over Case Western Reserve and Carnegie Mellon.  Hawkinson averaged 21 points, 15 rebounds, and three assists while shooting 61% from the floor.

Matthew Leritz

Leritz led the Titans to three key CCIW wins, securing at least a share of the conference title, averaging 24 points per game on 60% shooting. He also saved the tight contest against Millikin twice -- once blocking a go-ahead shot in the final seconds, then hitting one of his own to win 51-49. Leritz also had a career performance on Senior Night, scoring 31 points with eight rebounds against No. 11 Wheaton.