Cale Martens Photo courtesy of Emory athletics

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.

Women's

Jessie Ruffner

Claire Brock

Brock played arguably the best game of her career on Saturday afternoon helping the Eagles upset Washington and Lee in Lexington, Virginia. Brock posted a career-high 39 points against the Generals and also recorded a career high seven three pointers, shooting 70% from beyond the perimeter and went 6-6 in free throws. She rounded out her impressive day with shooting 62% (13-21) from the floor and totaled six rebounds. 

Kasey Schipfer

Schipfer, in her lone performance of the short holiday week, led Ohio Wesleyan on a 15-0 third quarter run and sank the free throws that put away a 58-55 win over then-ranked Ohio Northern. Schipfer led Ohio Wesleyan with 26 points and 9 rebounds, was 11-for-15 from the field and 4-for-4 from the line as OWU defeated their second straight ranked opponent.

Selena Vargas

Aleah Grundahl

Grundahl led the Warhawks to a pair of big road wins including an 82-80 win at Illinois Wesleyan and a 64-55 victory at Calvin, to remain undefeated in 2023-24. She averaged 27 points and 11 rebounds to go along with three assists, two steals, and a block on 59% shooting.

Men's

Noah Hicks

Hicks had one phenomenal game during the short holiday week.  Caltech gave No. 8 NYU a tough contest in California and Hicks led the team with a career-high 29 points with four rebounds and three assists.  He shot 12-18 from the floor and 3-5 from three. In addition, he was the primary defender on D3hoops.com Preseason First Team All-American Spencer Freedman, who was held to 2 points and zero field goals. 

Nate Amado

Amado posted one double-double and averaged 24 points on 53% shooting to go along with eight rebounds in a pair of wins for Babson. He poured in 26 points and grabbed 10 boards in Wednesday's 78-65 win over Brandeis and followed it up with 22 points and two assists in just 20 minutes on Sunday as the Beavers routed Bates, 77-53. 

Justin Allen

Allen led the Tartans to a 2-0 week with a 95-88 win at Washington and Jefferson and a 71-61 win versus Denison. In the Tartans' win at W&J, Allen became just the third Tartan player since 2005 to score 40 points in a game. He did it on 13-of-21 (62%) shooting from the field while sinking 12-of-14 from the free throw line. He also grabbed four rebounds in the win. After the holiday break, Allen led the Tartans with 19 points and grabbed nine rebounds. For the week he shot 51% from the floor and 75% from the free throw line with seven boards a game.

Bennett Sherry

Sherry led Coe to a 2-0 mark on the week with 15 points, five boards, two assists, and one block in the Kohawks' conference-opening victory over Loras. His block came in the decisive moments of the contest, swatting away a potential go-ahead layup with under 30 seconds to play before hitting a clutch free throw to send his team ahead by two. Sherry was 7-9 from the floor, shooting 78% in the victory. He followed that up with a career-best and record-breaking performance against Edgewood, posting a career-best 22 points with three boards, two assists, two steals, and one block.

Cale Martens

Martens put forth two monster games for the Eagles during Thanksgiving week, helping the team to a 2-0 record against Birmingham-Southern and Berry. He began the week with a career-best performance against the Panthers, posting a career-high 29 points on 12-of-17 shooting (4-for-8 from 3-point range) to go along with 10 rebounds, two assists, and two blocks. Then he followed that outing with 22 points and a season-best 12 rebounds while adding two blocks, two assists, and two steals. He shot 69% across the two games, including 5-for-11 from long range.