WASHINGTON – The Atlantic 10 Conference has named Saint Joseph’s sophomore Xzayvier Brown and Saint Louis junior Robbie Avila the Under Armour Men's Basketball Co-Players of the Week. VCU freshman Luke Bamgboye was chosen as the league’s Rookie of the Week. The awards were announced Monday and are for games played Feb. 24 – March 2.
 
Brown averaged 24.5 points, 8.0 rebounds, 4.0 assists, shooting 59.3 percent (16-for-27) was 5-for-9 (.556) from 3-point range in a 2-0 week for the Hawks. Against St. Bonaventure on Wednesday, the guard from Philadelphia recorded his fourth double-double of the season with 22 points and 10 rebounds, adding three assists as SJU beat the Bonnies for the first time since 2018. At Fordham on Sunday, he netted a season-high 27 points, shooting 9-for-14 from the floor, with six rebounds and five assists. For the week, he also had a block and went 12-for-14 (.857) from the free throw line.
 
Avila led the Billikens with 23.5 points per game last week as SLU went 2-0. He shot 57.7 percent (15-of-26) from the field, 50 percent (4-for-8) from the arc and 86.7 percent (13-15) from the stripe. Avila also collected a team-high 7.0 rebounds per game, dished out a team-high-tying 3.5 assists per game, and also had 1.5 steals per game. In the Billikens' win over Davidson, the center from Lake Forest, Ill., scored 19 points on 9-of-17 shooting, including the game-winning layup with a little over four seconds remaining. Avila then matched his season high with 28 points in the critical home victory over Loyola Chicago. He drilled three treys in the game as SLU broke its school record for 3-pointers made in a game (18).
 
Bamgboye averaged 12.5 points, 4.5 rebounds and 1.5 blocks, while converting 11-of-12 attempts (.917) from the field, in two VCU victories last week. A forward from London, England, he scored a career-high 17 points in Rams' win over Davidson. He was nearly perfect from the field against the Wildcats, hitting 7-of-8 (.875) while also sinking all three free throw attempts, and adding an assist, a block and a steal. The hot shooting was an extension of a 4-for-4 night earlier in the week at rival Richmond, where he was a perfect 4-for-4 from the field with five rebounds and two blocks.
 
HONOR ROLL
Nate Santos led the Flyers to two wins this week, including tallying the assist on Malachi Smith's three that sent the game to the first overtime, and then scoring a coast-to-coast layup with 0.5 seconds left at the end of the first OT to help beat Richmond with a game-high 18 points, eight rebounds and three assists …  Duquesne’s Tre Dinkins III averaged 16.0 points and 6.5 assists while converting 57.1 percent (12-for-21) of his shots from the field, including 50 percent (8-for-16) from beyond the arc, including a game-high 20 points in the Dukes win over George Mason and a double-double versus La Salle .…Jaylen Haynes averaged 19.5 points, 7.0 rebounds, in two games for George Mason, including matching his Patriot career high with 25 points and grabbed seven rebounds … George Washington’s Rafael Castro averaged 20.0 points and 12.0 rebounds, while shooting 76.2 percent (16-of-21) from the floor, including a double-double, his 13^th of the year (which ranks 11^th nationally) and became the first GW student-athlete with at least 13 double-doubles in a season since Yinka Dare in 1993-94 … Rahsool Diggins led UMsss past Rhode Island with 29 points on 9-of-16 shooting from the field to eclipse 1,000 points for his career, sinking 5-of-11 (.455) from 3-point range while adding six assists and three steals … David Green averaged 20.0 points and 10.0 rebounds while recording two double-doubles on the week with a career high eight 3-pointers versus UMass, one shy of the Rhode Island program record …  Sebastian Thomas averaged 14.5 points and 5.5 assists over two games and became just the sixth Rhode Island player to record 150+ assists in a season …  SLU freshman Amari McCottry shot 60 percent (6-of-10) from the field last week and played strong defense versus Davidson, controlling A-10 leading scorer Reed Bailey, followed by a perfect 3-of-3 performance from the field en route to 10 points in the win over Loyola Chicago.