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ATLANTA (WEDNESDAY, January 31, 2024) HBCU All-Stars LLC has announced its 12th 2023-24 HBCU All-Stars “Player of the Week and Team of the Week” honors featuring the nation’s top HBCU student-athletes from the MEAC, SWAC, CIAA, SIAC, Tennessee State, North Carolina A&T, and Hampton Universities.

This week’s winners from January 21-27:

•  HBCU All-Stars NCAA Division I MEAC Co-Players of the Week
  Wynston Tabbs, Morgan State University (John Chaney Shooting Guard)
  Averaged 20 mpg, 20 points, 5 rebounds, and 3 assists
  
  Ja’Darius Harris, North Carolina Central University (Alvin Attles, Jr. Point Guard)
  Averaged 34 mpg, 21 points, 8 rebounds, and 2 steals
  
  
• HBCU All-Stars NCAA Division I MEAC Team of the Week

  South Carolina State University
  Went 1-0 with a win over Delaware State University (66-64)
  
  

• HBCU All-Stars NCAA Division I SWAC Player of the Week

  Jeremiah Gambrell, Alcorn State University (John Chaney Shooting Guard)
  Averaged 31.5mpg, 16points, 2.5 rebounds, .5 assists, and 2.5 steals
  
  

• HBCU All-Stars NCAA Division I SWAC Team of the Week

  Alcorn State University
  Went 2-0 with wins over Prairie View A&M University (90-78) and Florida A&M University (76-67)
  
  

• HBCU All-Stars NCAA Division II SIAC Player of the Week
  Brandon Hill, Kentucky State University (Alvin Attles, Jr. Point Guards)
  Averaged 28 mpg, 19.5 points, 3.5 rebounds, and 3.5 assists
  
  
• HBCU All-Stars NCAA Division II SIAC Co-Teams of the Week
  

  Tuskegee University
  Went 2-0 with wins against Lane College (48-46) and Miles College (54-53)

   

  Kentucky State University
  Went 2-0 with wins over Miles College (85-76) and Central State University (80-68)
  
  

• HBCU All-Stars NCAA Division II CIAA Player of the Week

  Jaylen Alston, Winston-Salem State University, (Robert “Bob” Love Small Forwards)
  38 mpg, 21 points, 5.5 rebounds, 0.5 assists, and 0.5 blocks

   

• HBCU All-Stars NCAA Division II CIAA Co-Team of the Week

  Livingstone College
  Went 2-0 with a win over Johnson C. Smith University (76-71) and Fayetteville State University (59-54)
  
  

  Virginia Union University
  Went 2-0 with win over Bowie State University (70-48) and Bluefield State University (76- 60)

   

• HBCU All-Stars NCAA Division I Independent Player of the Week

  Christian Brown, Tennessee State University (John Chaney Shooting Guard)
  Averaged 34mpg, 17 points, 3 rebounds, 1 assists,1 block, and 2 steals

   

• HBCU All-Stars NCAA Division I Independent Team of the Week

  Tennessee State University
  Went 1-0 with a win over Eastern Illinois University (64-60)
  
  

• HBCU All-Stars Division I National Spotlight Co-Players of the Week

  Wynston Tabbs, Morgan State University (John Chaney Shooting Guard)
  Averaged 20 mpg, 20 points, 5 rebounds and 3 assists
  
  

  Ja’Darius Harris North Carolina Central University (Alvin Attles, Jr. Point Guard)
  Averaged 34 mpg, 21 points, 8 rebounds, and 2 steals
  
  

• HBCU All-Stars Division II National Spotlight Co-Players of the Week
  Jaylen Alston, Winston-Salem State University (Robert “Bob” Love Small Forwards)
  Averaged 38 mpg, 21 points, 5.5 rebounds, 0.5 assists, and 0.5 blocks
  
  Brandon Hill Kentucky State University (Alvin Attles, Jr. Point Guards)
  Averaged 28 mpg, 19.5 points, 3.5 rebounds, and 3.5 assists
  
  

• HBCU All-Stars Division I National Spotlight Team of the Week

  Alcorn State University
  Went 2-0 with wins over Prairie View A&M University (90-78) and Florida A&M University (76-67)
  
  

• HBCU All-Stars National Spotlight Division II Co-Teams of the Week
  

  Virginia Union University
  Went 2-0 with wins over Bowie State University (70- 48) and Bluefield State University (76- 60)
  
  

  Kentucky State University
  Went 2-0 with wins over Miles College (85-76)) and Central State University (80-68)

According to Travis L. Williams, HBCU All-Stars, LLC Founder/CEO, “For the past three months we have seen some of the best basketball and nation’s top players and coaches in the country playing this season and our 49 prestigious HBCUs in the MEAC, SWAC, CIAA, SIAC, and Independent teams, Tennessee State, Hampton, and North Carolina A&T State Universities continue to shine on a weekly basis. I have a tremendous amount of love and respect for the teams, coaches, student-athletes, students, universities and athletic departments, staff, faculty, alums, fans and supporters and it is great seeing the fans, students, and alumni support at the games this year on our HBCU All-Stars Tours to campuses. They are celebrating Black excellence on and off the court.

In week #12, we are beginning to see other teams come out of the shadows and winning in a big way. In the CIAA, Lincoln University (PA), is in first place and leads the Northern Division, along with Claflin University leading the Southern Division. Benedict College has climbed back in first place in the SIAC East Division and Miles College still holding on in the West Division. Grambling State, Southern, and Alabama State Universities with three-way tie in the SWAC, with Texas Southern University closing in as well. The MEAC is in a 2-way battle at the top with North Carolina Central and Norfolk State Universities. South Carolina and Delaware State Universities are one game away for a four-way tie. This is a crucial stretch of the season for all of these very talented and well-coached teams vying for the MEAC, SWAC, CIAA, SIAC, OVC, and CAA regular season and conference tournament championships.

On another very important note, we have announced the official team names honoring the legendary HBCU and NBA playing careers of Rick Mahorn, Hampton University and Ben Wallace, Virginia Union University for the third annual HBCU All-Star Game at Grand Canyon on Sunday, April 7. This is our way of showing love, respect, and appreciation to them paving the way for the HBCU All-Stars and HBCU All-Star Game Movement. We are very excited to highlight their extraordinary HBCU careers at Hampton and Virginia Union Universities and in the NBA with our CBS Sports partners leading up the HBCU All-Star Game.”

Our HBCU All-Stars national scouting staff has done an amazing job of getting out to the HBCU campuses and evaluating the nation’s top 65 HBCU players on our watch list. Also, the HBCU All-Stars tour continues to represent the HBCU All-Stars basketball movement at the highest level every week. We are less than 90 days and need you to get your tickets for this historic third annual HBCU All-Star Game at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix on Sunday, April 7.”

HBCU All-Stars LLC will honor the illustrious playing careers of Alvin Attles Jr., North Carolina A&T State University (CIAA), John Chaney, Bethune-Cookman University (SIAC), Leonard Eugene “Truck” Robinson, Tennessee State University (Independent), Robert Earl “Bob” Love, Southern University (SWAC), Zelmo “Big Z” Beaty, Prairie View A&M University (SWAC). Each of these amazing HBCU legends made their mark in this great game of basketball and reached the highest level of success in the NBA. We will recognize their impact on our HBCU basketball culture during the 2023-24 basketball season and host the third annual HBCU All-Star Game at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, AZ.

The HBCU All-Star Game is far more than a basketball game. HBCU All-Stars LLC will stage the HBCU All-Star Game Experience, a week-long festival that will kick off the week on Tuesday, April 2, and conclude the following Tuesday after the Championship game, April 9. It will celebrate the HBCU Experience and will be highlighted by an HBCU All-Stars College Admissions Fair, Community Outreach and Engagement, Pro Day Combine, Welcome Reception, Awards Ceremony, and Social Justice & Civil Rights panel discussion.

The HBCU All-Star Game will air live on the CBS Television Network and be available to stream on
Paramount+.

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ABOUT HBCU ALL-STARS, LLC

HBCU All-Stars, LLC is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, and was founded in 2019 with the mission to advocate, educate, expose, mentor, and invest in hardworking, talented, ambitious, and very deserving students, student-athletes and brilliant coaches at our distinguished Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Along with its mission, in April 2022 and 2023, the company also launched the first-ever and second HBCU All-Star Game and ancillary experiences and events surrounding the historical endeavor in New Orleans and Houston. Also, in November 2022, HBCU All-Stars LLC founded ATL Has Something to Say HBCU All-Stars Challenge at Morehouse College Forbes Arena featuring some of the best teams from the four premier black college conferences MEAC, SWAC, CIAA, and SIAC.

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