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Team of the Week

Top player at each position last week

Feb. 9-15, 2009

The Team of the Week is D3hoops.com's weekly honor roll, in its 12th season of recognizing the top performance at each of the five positions from the previous week.

Nominations are due at 9 p.m. EST on Mondays. Only SIDs and coaches may nominate players.

Women's
Keli Ward
Ward averaged 19.0 points, 11.0 rebounds and 6.0 assists per game. She shot 62.5 percent (15-for-24) from the floor, 2-for-3 from three, and 6-for-7 from the line. In a win against McDaniel, Ward had 15 points and 10 rebounds, including 6-for-9 shooting. She also had seven assists. Ward set up the game-winning play as she threaded a pass to April Sparkman who hit the game-winner with 1.2 seconds left. Against Wesley, Ward had 19 second-half points to lead the Spartans to their 22nd straight win. Ward finished with a game-high 23 points and had 11 rebounds for her 27th career double-double.

Kassandra Bills
Bills poured in a career-high 44 points against Texas Lutheran on Saturday to lead the Tornados to a 97-95 come-from-behind victory over the Bulldogs. Bills scored 42 of her points in the second half as she led her team back from a 20-point second-half deficit. Bills finished the week averaging 23 points, 9.7 rebounds and 2.3 steals per game as the Tornados went 2-1. Bills also converted 18 of 19 attempts from the charity stripe over the three games.

Amanda Kania
Kania averaged 27 points and 8.5 rebounds in a 1-1 week for Plymouth State, including a career-high 34-point performance in a win at Mass-Boston. She posted her fourth double-double of the season with 20 points and 10 rebounds in a loss at Keene State. Four days later, she shot 12-for-19 from the floor (63.2 percet) against the Beacons, including 3-for-4 from behind the three-point arc and 7-for-7 from the line. For the week, she shot 55.6 percent from the field, 57.1 percent from three-point range, and 90.9 percent from the line.

Megan Scheele
Scheele became the ninth Division III women's player to record 2,000 points and 1,000 rebounds for her career and was the first player on record to reach both milestones in the same game when she scored 21 points and pulled down 13 rebounds in a win over Maranatha on Feb. 12. Scheele averaged 21.7 points and 9.7 rebounds while shooting over 61 percent from the field in a 3-0 week. She has now helped Edgewood to six straight victories and 16 wins in its last 18 tries.

Jessica Berry
Berry recorded her ninth double-double of the season with a 21-point, 14-rebound effort against Nazareth. She averaged 20 points, 9.7 rebounds and 1.7 blocked shots in a 2-1 week for the Pioneers, shooting 24-for-47 from the floor and 10-for-13 from the line.

Men's
Chad Songy
Songy became the second player in school history to have back-to-back 100-assist seasons, dishing out 15 assists against one turnover in home wins against No. 11 Trinity (Texas) and Southwestern that kept Millsaps in the hunt for a conference tournament berth. He shot 7-for-14 from three-point range and 4-for-4 from the line.

Ryan Turk
Turk tied a career-high against then-SLIAC leader Fontbonne with 34 in an 83-68 win. He added 21 points in 20 minutes in a rout of Blackburn. Turk shot 61 percent (20-for-33) from the field and was 10-for-18 from three-point range with five assists and just two turnovers.

Todd Ward
Ward recorded 27 points and 11 rebounds along with four assists and three blocks in a win vs. Rhodes and then posted an almost identical 27 points and 11 rebounds to go with four blocks in a win against Birmingham-Southern. He shot 65.6 percent from the floor, 2-for-5 from three-point range and 10-for-11 from the line.

Andy Horton
Horton averaged 29.5 points and 12.5 rebounds as the Buccaneers snapped an 11-game losing streak with a two-overtime win against Carroll. He shot 18-for-37 from the floor and 21-for-22 from the free-throw line for the week.

John Mish
Mish averaged 26.0 points, 12.0 rebounds and 3.0 assists while recording two double-doubles as the Violets split two games. He also shot 57.1 percent (20-for-35) from the field and 92.3 percent (12-for-13) from the line while. Mish tallied a career-best 28 points, 14 of them a pivotal 23-10 run, and snared 12 rebounds as NYU produced its highest offensive output of the season in an 86-72 victory at Rochester on Feb. 13. Two days later, he went for 24 points, 12 rebounds and four assists in a 79-73 setback at then-No. 21 Carnegie Mellon.

2008-09 teams
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Jan. 5-11
Dec. 29-Jan. 4
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Dec. 8-14
Dec. 1-7
Nov. 24-30
Nov. 17-23

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