A pair of men's basketball standouts have earned Player-of-the-Week honors in the Minnesota College Athletic Conference recently. Heading into Thanksgiving weekend, many MCAC teams are partaking in non-conference play over the next week, and all Confeference teams will being Inter-Divisional games on Friday, November 30 and Saturday, December 1. Read on for the most recent men's basketball Player-of-Week selections.
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MCAC Northern Division Player-of-the-Week So. / Forward St. Paul, MN
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In a season-opening tournament at home in Ely, Vermilion Community College men's basketball player Curtis Bell dominated the scoring and the boards to earn Player-of-the-Week in the Northern Division. Bell hit for a total of 51 points in a pair of VCC wins; scoring 30 against Gogebic and another 21 vs. Itasca. He was active on the boards as well, grabbing 20 rebounds total for the weekend. Additionally, Bell had 11 steals in the two contests, with seven coming against the Vikings. He is a perfect 5-for-5 so far this season on free throws. Bell and his Vermilion Community College teammates next play when they travel to Gogebic Community College on Saturday, November 24.
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MCAC Southern Division Player-of-the-Week
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Jadaunte Sutton had a big night against Mayville State's JV team recently and was able to to lead his Ridgewater College squad to their second victory of 2018-19 Sutton had 25 points and hauled in 12 rebounds in the Warrior win. Defensively, he also had three steals and blocked a shot for Ridgewater. Sutton was 10-of-18 from the field and hit a pair of three pointers on the day. Ridewater College and Sutton will face North Dakota State College of Science on Tuesday, November 27.
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Notable Performances Around the MCAC:
SCTCC's Paul Coleman came off the bench to score 16 points and dish out eight assists in a 99-77 Cyclone win over the JV at St. John's University. KeShawn Sutton also had 16 points and grabbed seven rebounds in the game. Jazz Boker led St. Cloud Technical & Community College with 11 boards, while Eric Racine tallied 14 points.
Central Lakes College downed fellow MCAC program M State-Fergus Falls, 74-55 on Friday. Chris Buckley had 15 points to lead the Raiders, along with a pair of steals and was a perfect 4-for-4 from the foul line. Al-Jureau Ray chipped in with ten points while Avis Gilbert and TJ Kornbaum both had seven rebounds in the contest. In a 104-65 CLC win over Leech Lake Tribal College, JaQuavius Hays had 27 points, two blocked shots and ten rebounds, including a perfect 2-for-2 from behing the arc. Gavin Smith adding 15 points to Central Lakes effort against Leech Lake.
Northland Community & Technical College split with a pair of JV teams this past week losing to Jamestown College, 77-70 but defeating Concordia, 86-82 in OT. Against Jamestown, Bakri Gubara led the Pioneers with 17 points and Ibrahim Nassir added 14; Z'Mari Minter had 8 rebounds for Northland in the contest. Against Concordia, Brenson Alteme led all scorers with 27 points on the day, along with ten rebounds, three assists and two steals. Minter added 14 points to the winning effort for Northland, and Nasir led the squad with eight assists.
Minnesota State-Fergus Falls dropped a pair of games over the past week, falling 108-38 to NDSCS and 74-55 against Central Lakes. Against CLC, TJ Martin had 16 points while Austin Miller grabbed 8 rebounds.
In a game played at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Anoka Ramsey Community College fell to NJCAA Division II program Dakota County Technical College, 78-65. Steven Colon came off the bench in the game to lead all scorers in the game with 18 points; he also had three steals and three assists. Nate Soto grabed ten rebounds for the Golden Rams.
Riverland Community College picked up another win with a 76-69 triumph over Little Priest Tribal College and had downed the JV team at Saint Mary's University 66-57. DeAndre Smith had a game-high 12 rebounds against SMU, and had 18 points and 12 boards in the 76-69 win over Little Priest. Montrell Jacobs had 17 points and a pair of assists as well for the Blue Devils, who are 3-0 to start the season.
Mesabi Range College opened up their 2018-19 campaign with a 82-62 win over NJCAA Division II squad, Gogebic Community College. Alban Cooke had 23 points, as did Calvin Lee. Lee also added four steals and five rebounds on the night. William Howard led the Norsemen with nine boards.
Vermilion Community College opened up 2018-19 by sweeping their home tournament, downing Itasca Community College 73-51 and beating Gogebic, 80-62. Over the two games, Northern Division Player-of-the-Week Curtis Bell had 51 combined points, with 21 against ICC and 30 in the GCC contest. He also hauled in 20 rebounds over weekend; teammate Devontaye Spates had 19 rebounds and thirteen points, along with three blocked shots against Gogebic. Taray Graves had nine boards and eight points agianst GCC as well. Reggie Rogers had 15 points against Itasca and David Monel chipped in 14 points.
Rainy River Community College downed Itasca 80-67 and Gogebic Community College 86-59. Against ICC, Cedric Harris had 23 points and 18 rebounds to lead the Voyeguers while Jesus Alfonso and Trey Jones both had 13. Markest Brown had ten boards against the Vikings. In the 86-59 win over GCC, Josh Jacobs led RRCC with 15 points while teammate Greg Barber had seven rebounds, two blocked shots and a pair of steals.
Rochester CTC dropped a non-conference contest to Dakota County Technical College last week; Eddie Oyet came of the bench to score 18 points for the Yellowjackets, while also grabbing four rebounds. DaMichael Brown also reached double figures for RCTC in scoring, accounting for ten points on 5-of-9 shooting from the floor.
Western Technical College were downed 71-63 at Bay (MI) College on Saturday. Mhalik Lindsey led Western Tech with 13 points off the bench and Andrew Scott grabbed ten rebounds for the Cavaliers.
Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College competed against the JV team from Crown College on Tuesday, November 13.
Lake Superior College, Minnesota West CTC, Hibbing Community College were idle this past week.
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