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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
  Fred Cleveland, Jr., North Carolina Central University (Alvin Attles, Jr. Point Guard)
  Averaged 33.5 mpg, 23.5 points, 3 rebounds, 6.5 assists, and 0.5 steals
  
  
• HBCU All-Stars NCAA Division I MEAC Team of the Week

  No Team of the Week 

   

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

   Dhashon Dyson, Bethune-Cookman University (Alvin Attles, Jr. Point Guard)

  Averaged 31 mpg, 22 points, 3.5 rebounds, and 2.5 assists for the week

   

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

  No Team of the Week 

   

• HBCU All-Stars NCAA Division II SIAC Player of the Week
  Asanti Price, Benedict College (Robert Earl “Bob” Love Small Forward)
  Averaged 27 mpg, 21 points, 1 rebound, 3 assists, and 1 steal

   

• HBCU All-Stars NCAA Division II SIAC Team of the Week
  Benedict College
  Went 2-0 with wins over Spring Hill College (97-69) and a conference win over Tuskegee University (96-73)
  
  

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

  Jaylen Alston, Winston-Salem State  (Robert Earl “Bob” Love Small Forward)

  32.5 mpg, 9.5 points, 8 rebounds, 2.5 steals and 1.5 blocks
  
  

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

  Winston-Salem State University
  Went 2-0 with wins over Elizabeth City State University (76-51) and Virginia State University (76-62) 
  
  

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

  No Player of the Week
  
  

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

  North Carolina A&T State University
  Went 1-1 with a home win against Campbell University (76-62) and a road loss to Elon University (77-59)
  
  

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

  Dhashon Dyson, Bethune-Cookman University (Alvin Attles Jr Point Guard)
  Averaged 31 mpg, 22 points, 3.5 rebounds, and 2.5 assists
  
  

  Fred Cleveland Jr., North Carolina Central University (Alvin Attles, Jr. Point Guard)
  Averaged 33.5 mpg, 23.5 points, 3 rebounds, 6.5 assists, and 0.5 steals
  
  

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

  Winston-Salem State University
  Went 2-0 with wins over Elizabeth City State University (76-51) and Virginia State University (76-62)
  
  

  Benedict College
  Went 2-0 with wins over Spring Hill College (97-69) and a conference win over Tuskegee University (96-73)
  
  

• HBCU All-Stars National Spotlight Division II Player of the Week
  Asanti Price, Benedict College (Robert Earl “Bob” Love Small Forward)
  Averaged 27 minutes, 21 points, 1 rebound, 3 assists, and 1 steal

According to Travis L. Williams, HBCU All-Stars, LLC Founder/CEO, “The 2024 New Year is in full gear, and we wish all of you a prosperous and blessed year. We are in Week 9 “Player of the Week and Team of the Week honors, and our hardworking, talented, ambitious, and very deserving HBCU student-athletes are playing and competing at the highest level possible, and brilliant coaches are showing the country why they are some of the best coaches in the business from all four premier Black College conferences, MEAC, SWAC, CIAA, SIAC, and Independent teams in the OVC and CAA league play. This is the most important stretch of the season and every game counts for our very talented teams, players, and coaches as they position themselves for the regular season and conference tournament championships and NCAA Tournament berths. There’s not a better feeling in the world for the Watch List players and coaching staffs bringing those championships back to their prestigious campuses and athletic departments.

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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