Team of the Week

Jan 08, 2024

Chiara Brown, La Verne
Photo by Ryan Coleman, d3photography.com

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
Jahn Hines, Sr. Christopher Newport	G	Jessie Ruffner, Sr. Smith
Donyae Baylor-Carroll, Sr. Penn State-Harrisburg	G	Tanaesha Ellison, Jr. William Peace
Tanner Brown, Sr. Trinity (Texas)	G \| F	Mary Schleusner, So. Washington & Lee
Christian Parker, Sr. Mount Union	F	Cassidy Perry, Sr. Gallaudet
David Murray, Sr. Connecticut College	C \| F	Chiara Brown, Sr. La Verne
Games of Jan. 1-7, 2024 \| Previous seasons \| All-time honorees

Women's

Jessie Ruffner

Ruffner averaged a double-double, with 23 points and 10 rebounds per game to along with four assists. She helped No. 17 Smith to wins over MIT and Springfield. Against the Engineers, Ruffner finished with 17 points, 12 boards, and three assists and followed that with a 29-point, eight rebound performance at Springfield where she hit the game-tying buzzer beater to send the game into overtime.

Tanaesha Ellison

Ellison had a phenomenal triple-double in a 70-60 win against Mary Baldwin on Saturday. She scored 33 points with 24 rebounds and 11 steals, the latter two, school records. Ellison averaged 30 points, 15 rebounds, and seven steals for the week, shooting 19-for-40 from the floor and 22-for-26 from the foul line.

Mary Schleusner

Schleusner logged two games with 20 points and 20 rebounds for the No. 23 Generals last week in two wins. She scored 24 points (11-of-24 field goals) and grabbed 20 rebounds in a 79-71 win over Roanoke on Wednesday, before going for another 24 points (7-of-11 from the floor, 10-of-14 from the line) and 22 boards in an 80-76 win over Guilford on Sunday. She added three blocks and five steals in the Roanoke game, and one block and two thefts in the Guilford game, while pulling down eight offensive rebounds in both contests. Her 22 rebounds against the Quakers were just one away from tying her own program record, which she set last season.

Cassidy Perry

Perry had another strong week for the Bison as she tallied 49 points, 25 rebounds, 10 assists, six steals, and three blocks in two home non-conference victories for Gallaudet. Perry started the week with a 25-point performance in a 72-66 win against Stockton. In that game, she made 10 of 15 shots from the field and was a perfect 5-for-5 from the free throw line to go along with eight rebounds, five steals, and three assists. Perry followed up with a double-double on Saturday with 24 points and 17 rebounds (along with seven assists) in a win over Gwynedd-Mercy.

Chiara Brown

Brown scored a career-high 43 points to lead La Verne to a 71-66 come-from-behind win over Occidental on Saturday. She scored 16 of her 43 points in the fourth quarter to erase an 11-point deficit. Brown took over the game midway through the period, scoring 14 straight points to give La Verne a 65-62 lead with 36 seconds remaining. She also added 11 rebounds and two blocks, then put in 22 points with 11 rebounds against Whittier, with three more blocks as well.

Men's

Jahn Hines

Hines posted 60 points in 71 minutes played in two games in Georgia against Berry and Emory as the Captains went 1-1. He tallied a career-high 39 points in the Captains' come-from-behind victory over Berry on New Year's Day. He followed up the effort two days later at Emory by leading CNU with 21 points in the loss to the No. 23 team in the country. He also averaged six rebounds, two steals, and two assists per game.

Donyae Baylor-Carroll

Baylor-Carroll led Penn State Harrisburg to a pair of victories. In a win over Muhlenberg on Wednesday night, he finished one rebound shy of a double-double, pouring in a game-high 31 points to go along with nine rebounds, five steals, five assists, and a block. Baylor-Carroll followed it up by netting a game-high 20 points to become Penn State Harrisburg's all-time leading scorer in a victory over Penn State Berks on Saturday. He continued to be a menace on the defensive end as well, swiping a game-high six steals and adding three assists and three rebounds in the win.

Tanner Brown

Brown played just one game this week, but it was vital as the No. 7 Tigers remained undefeated on the season. Trinity barely escaped Schreiner, 82-81 with Brown scoring 32 points on 12-13 shooting, including a perfect 7-7 from deep. He ended up nailing the game-winning 3-pointer and adding five rebounds, three assists, and three steals.

Christian Parker

Parker led the Raiders to a pair of OAC victories last week, opening the week with a 22-point, 14-rebound double-double in Mount Union's 70-56 win over Baldwin Wallace. He then followed up that performance by scoring a career-high 34 points in Saturday's 79-69 win over Otterbein. Parker averaged 28 points, 11 rebounds, and three blocks on the week, shooting 60% from the floor and 50% from three.

David Murray

Murray averaged 21 points, 12 rebounds, four blocks, three steals, and two assists last week while leading the Camels to a pair of NESCAC wins. He posted a double-double with 11 points and 11 rebounds and totaled three blocks and four steals as Conn defeated Tufts for the Camels' first win in Medford since 2011. Murray followed up with a career-high 30 points, plus 12 rebounds, five blocks, three assists, and a steal in a win at Bates. He shot 53% from the field for the week and raised his team-leading double-double tally to six. Murray was named NESCAC Player of the Week.