Team of the Week

Dec 18, 2023

Lexy Harris
Photo by Davis Nguy for WashU 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.

Men	Pos.	Women
Aaron Davis, Sr. Farmingdale State	G	Lauren Sansano, So. Texas Lutheran
Trent Jakacki, Jr. Hiram	G	Haley Franklin, Jr. Millsaps
Bryant Smith, Jr. Manchester	G \| F	Caite Knutson, Sr. Illinois Wesleyan
Luke Harris, Jr. Carleton	G \| F	Natalie Anderson, So. Trinity (Tex.)
Matthew Solomon, So. TCNJ	F \| C	Lexy Harris, Fr. WashU
Games of Dec. 11- 17, 2023 \| Previous seasons \| All-time honorees

Women's

Lauren Sansano

Sansano fnished just two points shy of her career high, scoring 22 points on 66% shooting and adding three assists as TLU defeated Colorado College in Colorado for the first time since 2019 and improved to 8-2 on the season. Sansano accounted for 42% of TLU's points in the game.

Haley Franklin

Franklin was electric, powering the Majors to a 72-55 home win over MUW on Saturday. She netted a season-high 32 points to go along with six rebounds, four blocks, three assists, and one steal. Franklin shot 75% from the floor (12-of-16) and 8-of-9 from the free-throw-line. The performance was her sixth 30-point effort at Millsaps.

Caite Knutson

Knutson helped power Illinois Wesleyan to a key 73-63 win at No. 11 Chicago this week. She carried much of the load early before finishing with 21 points. Knutson went 6-for-10 from the floor and 9-for-11 from the charity stripe as she tied her career-high in points. She also added a pair of rebounds and a steal to lead IWU to the win.

Natalie Anderson

Anderson led No. 10 Trinity to a pair of home wins in SCAC play over the weekend, defeating both Austin College and Dallas. Anderson averaged 16 points and 13 rebounds per game, adding three steals and two blocks per contest. She connected on 87% (13-of-15) from the field. In Saturday's win over Dallas, Anderson had 21 points and 20 rebounds, shooting 8-for-9 from the field and 5-for-6 from the line.

Lexy Harris

Harris had 37 points and 20 rebounds in just 25 minutes of play for WashU, in a lopsided 93-51 victory over Fontbonne. She shot 74% from the floor and added two assists, three steals, and two blocks.

Men's

Aaron Davis

Davis shot 9-of-15 (60%) from long range and 50% from the floor (16-of-32) in posting averages of 22 points, seven rebounds, and four assists during a 2-0 non-conference road week for the Rams. Tuesday at Baruch, he scored game-high 19 points (5-of-10 3FG) to go with three assists and added a season-high 25 points two nights later at Union (N.Y.), shooting 10-of-17 from the field and 4-of-5 from deep in registering a double-double with 10 boards and five assists.

Trent Jakacki

Jakacki scored 27 points against CWRU on Monday and then 46 points in a victory over Hilbert on Friday, the most points for a Hiram student athlete since 1987. In the historic performance against the Hawks, Jakacki also chipped in five rebounds and five assists. He scored or assisted on 59 of the team's 91 points (64.8%) in the game.

Bryant Smith

Smith helped lead the Spartans to triple digits on Saturday during Manchester's 102-78 victory over Berea. He finished the game with 52 points, which ranks second in points scored in a single game in school history. Smith shot 11-18 from beyond the three-point arc and went a perfect 11-11 from the free throw line.

Luke Harris

Harris, the MIAC Defensive Player of the Week, averaged 26 points, eight rebounds, four assists, and four steals in his two games this week. He started with a 22 point, seven rebound performance in a come-from-behind victory over University of Northwestern-St. Paul. Two days later Harris improved each of those figures, pouring in 29 points while collecting eight boards, to go along with six steals, and four assists at Bethany Lutheran College.

Matthew Solomon

Solomon put up an 18-point, 20-rebound double-double in Wednesday's win at Stockton. He was 9-for-16 from the field and notched the first 20-rebound game by a Lion in nearly a decade. Ten of his rebounds were on the offensive end. He shot 56% from the floor and added three assists.