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Sydney Jones, Bowdoin
Bowdoin athletics photo
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The Team of the Week presented by Scoutware is D3hoops.com's weekly honor roll, in its 27th season of recognizing the top performance at each of the five positions from the previous week.
| Men |
Pos. |
Women |
AJ Weston, Sr.
Dean |
G |
Raegan Sorensen, Jr.
UW-Stout |
Jack Clement, Gr.
Otterbein |
G |
Sydney Jones, Jr.
Bowdoin |
Justin Allen, So.
Carnegie Mellon |
G |
Tanaesha Ellison, Jr.
William Peace |
Alex Acosta, So.
Washington & Jefferson |
F |
Aleah Grundahl, Sr.
UW-Whitewater |
Christian Dufort, So.
Union |
F |
Makayla Anderson, Jr.
Concordia-Moorhead |
| Games of Feb. 5-11, 2024 | Previous seasons | All-time honorees |
Women's
Raegan Sorensen
Sorensen led the Blue Devils to a pair of huge wins with two more double-doubles. She shot 55% (21-38) and averaged 27 points, 11 rebounds, four assists, and three steals a game. At La Crosse, she shot 67%, scoring 19 points with 12 rebounds, four assists, and two steals. At Eau Claire, Sorensen scored a season-high 35 points (13-for-26 from the field) and pulled down 11 rebounds. She added four more assists and three steals.
Sydney Jones
Jones helped the Polar Bears clinch the top seed for the NESCAC tournament with a pair of conference wins. On Saturday against Amherst, Jones netted a career-high 32, with 24 coming in the second half, to go with 10 rebounds and five steals. With the game still close in the third quarter, Jones rolled off 16 straight points to put the contest out of reach. That performance came after a Friday win against Hamilton in which Jones flirted with a triple-double, scoring 12 points with 11 rebounds and seven assists.
Tanaesha Ellison
Ellison once again put up huge numbers, helping William Peace to two wins on the week, a quarter of their season total. She averaged 35 points, 13 rebounds, six assists, and seven steals per game on the week, shooting 50% from the field and 63% from behind the arc. Ellison also eclipsed the 1,000 career point mark this week.
Aleah Grundahl
Grundahl carried UW-Whitewater to a pair of wins this week. Her 39 points Saturday against UW-La Crosse not only led UWW to a thrilling fourth-quarter comeback win, but also broke the UW-Whitewater single game scoring record that had stood since 1995. Grundahl shot 72% from the floor, 43% from deep and averaged 36 points and seven rebounds.
Makayla Anderson
Anderson averaged 19 points, eight rebounds, and three assists in Concordia's three wins last week. Her biggest contribution to the Cobbers came in the team's 73-65 win over No. 7 Gustavus Adolphus. She went 7-for-14 from the floor and 7-for-9 from the free throw line in posting a team-high 20 points. The Concordia win ended the Gusties' 32-game win streak against conference opponents.
Men's
AJ Weston
Weston averaged 35 points per game, shot 49% from the floor, 39% from beyond the arc, and 95% from the free throw line in a 2-0 week for Dean. He played 103 out of 105 minutes as the Bulldogs were involved in a total of five overtime sessions. Weston finished with a career-high 37 points, including a pair of game-winning free throws with four seconds to play, in Wednesday's 104-102 double overtime win at Mitchell. He went 12-of-18 from the floor, 5-of-6 from beyond the arc, and 8-of-9 from the free throw line. Weston then played all 55 minutes to help Dean to a 104-103 triple overtime victory over Rivier. He finished with 32 points and made all 12 of his free throws.
Jack Clement
Clement averaged 24 and 10 on 54% shooting to spark Otterbein in a pair of wins over Marietta (90-88, 2OT) and Muskingum (73-59). He scored a game-high 26 at Marietta, including two triples in the last minute of the first overtime and the latter coming at the buzzer to force a second OT. He then gave Muskingum another 23 while pulling down a career-high 11 rebounds from his lead guard spot.
Justin Allen
Allen helped the Tartans to a pair of UAA road wins over the weekend. CMU opened the weekend with an 80-77 win at Brandeis before topping No. 12 NYU on Sunday afternoon to complete the season series sweep over the Violets. Allen averaged 27 points while shooting 56% (19-34) from the floor, 60% (6-10) from behind the arc and converted 10-of-13 from the foul line for 77%. Against Brandeis, Allen scored a game-high 25 points (all in the second half) on 8-of-14 shooting from the floor, including scoring the final five points of the game for the Tartans. In the win at NYU, he poured in a game-high 29 points on 11-of-20 shooting.
Alex Acosta
Acosta averaged 26 points last week as the Presidents earned a split versus the top two teams in the PAC. Acosta poured in a game-high 30 points on a stellar 12-of-13 shooting effort from the field to help W&J snap first place Geneva's 12-game winning streak Wednesday. He then matched the game high with 21 points in a narrow 87-84 loss at Saint Vincent on Saturday. Acosta, the PAC's leader in field goal percentage, converted at an astonishing 79% clip last week (19-of-24)
Christian Dufort
Dufort had a huge week leading Union to a pair of crucial conference victories, averaging a double-double of 22 points and 10 rebounds per game while shooting 68% (13 of 19) from the field, 70% (7 of 10) from three-point range and 91% (10 of 11) from the line. He hit 8-of-11 shots, including 6-of-7 from long range, on the way to a career-high 27 points and 10 rebounds in Friday's 83-75 win over Clarkson. He came back with 16 points and 10 boards on Saturday in a 67-65 win over St. Lawrence while chipping in three assists, including a cross-court feed to Matthew Garside for the go-ahead three with 22 seconds remaining.