AJ CLARK OF TRINITY UNIVERSITY, a senior guard from San Antonio, Texas, has been named the SCAC Men’s Basketball Player-of-the-Week for games played from Monday, February 14 through Sunday, February 20. SCAC Men's Basketball Release (Week 15)
Clark put himself in the Tigers' record book with 11 assists in Tuesday's crucial SCAC 98-74 victory over Schreiner. The double-digit performance led to the fourth-most assists in team history for a single game and made Clark the ninth in program history to reach 100 assists in a season. Clark also provided a strong foundation for the Tigers' to mount a second-half rally at Dallas on Sunday as he led Trinity's offense with 17 points for the game. For the week he averaged 12.5 points on 45 percent shooting and added 7.0 assists, 5.5 rebounds and 2.0 steals per game.
Other outstanding performances in the SCAC:
Junior forward Joseph Wiggins of Centenary had a big weekend for the Gents as he scored a career-high 19 points in a loss at Texas Lutheran on Saturday, a day after recording his previous season and career-high of 13 in the 77-55 win at Southwestern which clinched a SCAC Tournament berth. Senior guard Jack McRoskey of Colorado College paced the team with 15 points and four assists during Saturday’s 62-49 loss at St. Thomas in the final game of the season for the Tigers. McRoskey went 6-for-11 from the floor to record double-digit points for the 11th game in a row. First-year guard Jalen Ned of Schreiner averaged 16 points on 41.7 percent shooting as the Mountaineers split a pair of SCAC games to close out the regular season last week. In the win over Dallas, Ned poured in 20 points, grabbed six steals and secured two steals. Junior guard Josh Jones of Southwestern paced the Pirates offense against Austin College with surgical precision, scoring 19 points on 55.6 percent shooting, hitting 4-for-6 from deep, with six rebounds and four assists. For the week, he averaged 11 points on 42.9/55.6/83.3 shooting splits with four rebounds and three assists per game. Junior forward Joshua Sanchez of St. Thomas averaged 10.5 points on 56.3 percent shooting to help secure the Celts SCAC regular season title and No. 1 seed going into the SCAC Tournament. He also added 8.5 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 1.0 steals per game. Senior guard Sebastian Andrade of Texas Lutheran help the Bulldogs to a 2-1 record to close out the regular season with wins over Austin College and Centenary. He averaged 15.0 points on 41.7 percent shooting and added 5.7 rebounds, 1.7 assists and 0.7 steals per contest.
| SCAC Men's Basketball Players-of-the-Week | |
| Week 1 | Enzo Sechi, Trinity University |
| Week 2 | Kyle Poerschke, Southwestern University |
| Week 3 | Calen Anderson, University of St. Thomas |
| Week 4 | AJ Hall, Centenary College |
| Week 5 | Enzo Sechi, Trinity University |
| Week 6 | Letrell Toussaint, University of Dallas |
| Week 7 | Seth Thomas, Centenary College |
| Week 8 | Alex Dehoyos, Schreiner University |
| Week 9 | Scott Cunningham, Colorado College |
| Week 10 | Kamden Ross, Schreiner University |
| Week 11 | Jason Jones Jr., Austin College |
| Week 12 | Christian Alaekwe, University of St. Thomas |
| Week 13 | Tanner Brown, Trinity University |
| Week 14 | Sebastian Andrade, Texas Lutheran University |
| Week 15 | AJ Clark, Trinity University |
