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ATLANTA (WEDNESDAY, January 3, 2024) HBCU All-Stars LLC has announced its eighth 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 December 24-30:

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

  Seth Towns
  Howard University, Leonard Eugene “Truck” Robinson
  Averaged 35 mpg, 18 points, 12 rebounds, 2 assists, 3 steals, and 1 block.
  
  

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

  Delaware State University
  Went 1-0 with a win over Mount St. Mary’s University (77-73).
  
  

  Howard University
  Went 1-0 with a win over La Salle University (71-66).
  
  

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

  No Player of the Week
  
  

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

  No Team of the Week
  
  

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

  No Player of the Week
  
  

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

  No Team of the Week
  
  

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

  Virginia State University
  Went 1-0 with a conference win against St. Augustine’s University (78-63).
  
  

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

  Kaleb Coleman
  Fayetteville State University (Robert Earl “Bob” Love Small Forward)
  Averaged 33 mpg, 20 points, 4 rebounds, 1 assist, and 1 block.
  
  

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

  Tennessee State University
  Went 1-1 on the week with a loss to University of Tennessee at Martin (91-75) and a win
  against the University of Arkansas Little Rock (90-82).
  
  

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

  Christian Brown
  Tennessee State University (John Chaney Shooting Guard)
  Averaged 25 mpg, 15 points, and 2 rebounds

   

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

  Seth Towns
  Howard University, Leonard Eugene “Truck” Robinson
  Averaged 35 mpg, 18 points, 12 rebounds, 2 assists, 3 steals, and 1 block..
  
  

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

  Virginia State University
  Went 1-0 with a conference home win against St. Augustine’s University (78-63).
  
  

• HBCU All-Stars National Spotlight Division II Player of the Week
  Kaleb Coleman
  Fayetteville State University (Robert Earl “Bob” Love Small Forward)
  Averaged 33 mpg, 20 points, 4 rebounds, 1 assist, and 1 block

According to Travis L. Williams, HBCU All-Stars, LLC Founder/CEO, “We are less than 100 days from hosting the third annual HBCU All-Star Game on Sunday, April 7 at Grand Canyon University Arena in Phoenix during Final Four weekend. With the new year here, there is so much anticipation and excitement for this historic event and we will continue celebrating the best in Black College Basketball every week with our 49 participating HBCUs, talented student-athletes, and brilliant coaches. The CIAA is four games into league play, SIAC five games into league play, OVC two games, and CAA teams are just getting started for the regular season and conference tournament
championships. The MEAC and SWAC will begin league play next week and our HBCU All-Stars national scouts are locked in evaluating the top 65 watch list players on a high level.”

Our HBCU All-Stars National Scouts with over 100 combined years of coaching, scouting, and recruiting will continue attending games and evaluating, scouting, and recruiting the nation’s top 60 players across the country from the 2024 Watch List.

HBCU All-Stars Player of the Week selections will highlight and showcase the nation’s best HBCU student-athletes and brilliant coaches on a national stage.

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).  All 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 on the breathtaking campus of Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, AZ.

This event 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 and civil Rights panel discussion.

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

GET TICKETS Now!

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

To request media credentials email [email protected]. For tickets and group sales inquiries email [email protected]

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.

“Celebrating the Best in Black College Basketball”