HBCU Basketball Players of the Week: Nov. 11-17

In the event you thought selecting the HBCU Gamers of the Week can be simpler after a hotly contested Week 1, you have been incorrect.

As we settle into the 2024-25 faculty basketball season, it’s fairly clear that is going to be a aggressive race each week. We’ve partnered with City Edge Community to focus on the perfect gamers in HBCU Division I males’s and girls’s basketball every week.

And a few gamers who have been contenders in Week 1 upped their recreation sufficient to win the Gamers of the Week in Week 2.

With out additional ado, listed here are the Males’s and Girls’s Gamers of the Week for Nov. 11-17.

Males’s Participant of the Week: KC Shaw, Maryland Japanese Shore

Ketron “KC” Shaw opened the season with a robust first week, scoring no less than 23 factors in every of his first three video games. However his two video games this previous week have been even higher, as he had his two highest-scoring video games of the season.

In an 88-70 loss to Miami (OH), Shaw’s scorching begin stored the Hawks within the recreation till Miami pulled away within the second half. He poured in 15 factors within the first half as Maryland Japanese Shore went into the locker room down simply 42-38.

Shaw ended the sport with 27 factors on 10-of-15 capturing. Cardell Bailey and Shaw did the heavy lifting on offense, combining for 48 of the staff’s 70 factors. Shaw additionally chipped in 4 assists, his third straight recreation with no less than 4.

In his second recreation of the week, Shaw was even higher with a season-high 30 factors on 10-of-19 capturing in a tricky 73-71 loss to Outdated Dominion. He went 9 of 10 from the free-throw line and scored the ultimate 4 factors for the Hawks as they reduce a six-point deficit to 2 with beneath a minute left. Outdated Dominion escaped with the win, however Shaw was the perfect participant on the ground.

With no less than 23 factors in each recreation to this point this season, Shaw ranks third within the nation in scoring amongst qualifiers at 25.8 factors per recreation. This can be his first award, however with the best way he’s been in a position to rating, it won’t be his final.

Girls’s Participant of the Week: Laila Lawrence, Coppin State

Coppin State had an extremely robust couple of video games to finish the week, however that allowed Lawrence to show she belonged on the ground with a few of the greatest gamers within the nation.

The Eagles began the week with a dominating 74-38 win over St. Francis (PA), and Lawrence tallied a double-double with 19 factors and 11 rebounds. It was Lawrence’s second straight double-double, persevering with a pattern from final yr when she had 15.

After the win to open the week, Coppin State dropped a 92-60 recreation to No. 1 South Carolina, however Lawrence had a season-high 20 factors, seven rebounds and three assists towards the perfect staff within the nation. She was the second-leading scorer within the recreation and hit 4 of Coppin State’s 9 3-pointers within the contest.

Lawrence scored 20 once more in an 86-51 loss to Virginia Tech to shut out the week. Coppin State now sits at 2-3 on the yr, however Lawrence has averaged 18.7 factors in these three losses – all to energy convention groups.

She now leads the MEAC in factors per recreation regardless of a tricky schedule to start out the yr, and her prolonged vary has made her much more lethal. She’s hit seven 3-pointers in her final 4 video games, and that matches her whole from all of final yr.

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