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ATLANTA (WEDNESDAY, January 24, 2024) HBCU All-Stars LLC has announced its 11th 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 14-20:

•  HBCU All-Stars NCAA Division I MEAC Player of the Week
  Allen Betrand, Norfolk State University (John Chaney Shooting Guard)
  Averaged 24 mpg, 14 points, 3.5 rebounds, 2 assists, 0.5 blocks, and 0.5 steals
  
  
• HBCU All-Stars NCAA Division I MEAC Team of the Week

  Delaware State University
  Went 1-0 with a win over Maryland Eastern Shore University (67-63)
  
  

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

  Dhashon Dyson, Bethune-Cookman University (Alvin Attles, Jr. Point Guard)
  Averaged 33.5 mpg, 17.5 points, 5 rebounds, 4.5 assists, and 2 steals
  
  

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

  Grambling State University
  Went 2-0 with wins over Florida A&M University (65-52) and Southern University (79-62)
  
  

• HBCU All-Stars NCAA Division II SIAC Player of the Week
  Chris Martin, Clark Atlanta University (Alvin Attles, Jr. Point Guards)
  Averaged 30 mpg, 18.5 points, 7 rebounds, 3.5 assists, and 2.5 steals
  
  
• HBCU All-Stars NCAA Division II SIAC Co-Teams of the Week
  

  Morehouse College
  Went 2-0 with wins against Benedict College (76-69) and Savannah State University (68-66)
  
  

  Miles College
  Went 2-0 with wins over LeMoyne-Owen University (72-62) and Central State University (73-67)
  
  

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

  Kaleb Coleman, Fayetteville State University, Robert “Bob” Love Small Forwards
  28 mpg, 13 points, 2 rebounds, 2 assists, and 0.5 blocks

   

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

  Claflin University
  Went 3-0 with a win over Morris College (102-55), Livingstone College (90-78), and Winston-Salem State University (87-68)

   

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

  Christian Brown, Tennessee State University (John Chaney Shooting Guard)
  Averaged 25.5mpg, 12.5 points, 4.5 rebounds, 3 assists, and 0.5 steals

   

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

  North Carolina A&T State University
  Went 3-0 with wins over Hampton University (81-80), Northeastern University (72-65), and The College of William & Mary (76-69)
  
  

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

  Dhashon Dyson, Bethune-Cookman University (Alvin Attles, Jr. Point Guard)
  Averaged 33.5 mpg, 17.5 points, 5 rebounds, 4.5 assists, and 2 steals
  
  

• HBCU All-Stars Division II National Spotlight Player of the Week
  Chris Martin, Clark Atlanta University (Alvin Attles, Jr. Point Guards)
  Averaged 30 mpg, 18.5 points, 7 rebounds, 3.5 assists, and 2.5 steals
  
  

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

  North Carolina A&T State University
  Went 3-0 with wins over Hampton University (81-80) Northeastern University (72-65) and The College of William & Mary (76-69)
  
  

  Grambling State University
  Went 2-0 with wins over Florida A&M University (65-52) and Southern University (79-62)
  
  

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

  Claflin University
  Went 3-0 with wins over Morris College (102-55), Livingstone College (90-78), and Winston-Salem State University (87-68)
  
  

  Morehouse College
  Went 2-0 with wins against Benedict College (76-69) and Savannah State University (68-66)
  
  

According to Travis L. Williams, HBCU All-Stars, LLC Founder/CEO, “We have witnessed some of the most distinguished coaching moments and milestones with victories during the past month, with North Carolina Central University Head Men’s Basketball Coach Levelle Moton becoming the all-time winningest coach in NCCU history and Norfolk State University Head Men’s Basketball Robert Jones’ 200th career win with a huge win on the road against Howard University. Week 11 did not disappoint and has proved pivotal to so many outstanding teams in their respective conferences, MEAC, SWAC, CIAA, SIAC, CAA, and OVC. The SWAC has a three-way tie at the top of the league with Jackson State, Alabama State, and Grambling State Universities sitting at 4-1. Delaware State is playing some high-level basketball at 3-0 in the MEAC, with a four-game winning streak. Morehouse and Miles College are winning both East and West Divisions in the SIAC, along with Lincoln (PA) and Claflin leading the way in the CIAA Northern and Southern Divisions. This is a crucial time of the season to evaluate and scout the 2024 HBCU All-Stars watch list players, and many of them are showing why their names deserve to be on the nation’s top 65 list. I truly love watching these high-level games and big-time players up close and person. It is a great time witnessing some of our teams with two-, three-, and five-game winning streaks and leading their divisions. As always, 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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