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ATLANTA (WEDNESDAY, January 3, 2024) HBCU All-Stars LLC has announced its tenth 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 7-13:

•  HBCU All-Stars NCAA Division I MEAC Player of the Week
  Seth Towns, Howard University, (Leonard Eugene “Truck” Robinson Power Forwards)
  Averaged 36.5 mpg, 14.5 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists, .5 steals
  
  
• HBCU All-Stars NCAA Division I MEAC Team of the Week

  Howard University
  Went 2-0 with a road win at South Carolina State University (82-78) and a home win over Maryland Eastern Shore University (72-61)
  
  

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

  Jordan O’Neal, Jackson State University (Leonard Eugene “Truck” Robinson Power Forwards)
  Averaged 33 mpg,14 points, 8.5 rebounds, 0.5 assists, 4 blocks and 0.5 steals
  
  

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

  Southern University
  Went 2-0 with wins over Prairie View A&M University (79-58) and Florida A&M University (74-65)
  
  

  Jackson State University
  Went 2-0 with wins on the road over Alabama State University (73-63) and Alabama A&M University (75-67)
  
  

• HBCU All-Stars NCAA Division II SIAC Player of the Week
  Chris Martin, Clark Atlanta University (Alvin Attles, Jr. Point Guards)
  Averaged 28 mpg, 32 points, 8 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 blocks, and 2 steals
  
  
• HBCU All-Stars NCAA Division II SIAC Team of the Week
  Clark Atlanta University
  Went 1-0 with an overtime win against Benedict College (88-84)
  
  

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

  No Player of the Week
  
  

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

  Johnson C. Smith University
  Went 2-0 with a win over Elizabeth City State University (88-80) and a home win over Winston-Salem State University (79-70)

   

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

  Christian Brown, Tennessee State University (John Chaney Shooting Guard)
  Averaged 33 mpg, 22 points, 6 rebounds, 1 assist, and 1 steal

   

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

  Tennessee State University
  Went 1-0 with a win over Lindenwood University (75-60)
  
  

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

  Christian Brown, Tennessee State University (John Chaney Shooting Guard)
  Averaged 33 mpg, 22 points, 6 rebounds, 1 assist, and 1 steal
  
  

• HBCU All-Stars Division II National Spotlight Player of the Week
  Chris Martin, Clark Atlanta University (Alvin Attles, Jr. Point Guards)
  Averaged 28 mpg, 32 points, 8 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 blocks, and 2 steals
  
  

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

  Southern University
  Went 2-0 with wins over Prairie View A&M University (79-58) and Florida A&M University (74-65)
  
  Howard University
  Went 2-0 with a road win at South Carolina State University (82-78) and a home win over Maryland Eastern Shore University (72-61)
  
  

• HBCU All-Stars National Spotlight Division II Team of the Week
  Clark Atlanta University
  Went 1-0 with an overtime win against Benedict College (88-84)
  
  

According to Travis L. Williams, HBCU All-Stars, LLC Founder/CEO, “Week 10 Player of the Week and Team of the Week honors have extra meaning and significance as we celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy this past weekend and his impact around the globe still speaks volumes. I really enjoyed participating in the MLK Jr. Celebration and marched with thousands in downtown Phoenix. This was a very special moment for me both personally and professionally and sits at the very top of my life’s accomplishments, goals, and aspiration. I was hit with emotions while carrying the “torch” during the march showing love, appreciation, admiration, and respect for Dr. King’s work. There is so much love and support from the Phoenix communities, and Grand Canyon University for the HBCU All-Stars Basketball Movement and the third annual HBCU All-Star Game in 81 days. In addition, our HBCU All-Stars National Scouting staff with close to 150 years of head and assistant coaching experience are working extremely hard on a weekly basis. Anthony Sewell, HBCU All-Stars National Scouting Director, Stacey Beckton, Assistant Scouting Director, and national scouts Eric Skeeters, Murray Garvin, Chrys Cornelius are scouting, evaluating, and recruiting the nation’s top 65 HBCU All-Stars Watch List players from the MEAC, SWAC, CIAA, SIAC, and Independent teams Tennessee State, Hampton, and North Carolina A&T State Universities. We will have the best of the best in Black College Basketball representing in the Valley of the Sun.

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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For more information, please go to www.hbcuallstargame.com and www.hbcuallstargameexperience.org.

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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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