This Week in PAC Men's Basketball February 17-23 2/24/2025 3:00:00 PM Week 15 PAC Honors (for events between February 17-23) The weekly award winners have been recognized for their performances during Week 15 of the 2024-25 season. PAC Player of the Week Luke Barker • Allegheny • Senior guard • New Castle, Pa./Struthers (Ohio) Barker closed his Allegheny career with a dominating week, averaging 32.0 points, 7.0 rebounds, and 5.5 assists per game … He shot 52.9% overall (18-for-34) and 87.0% from the four line (20-for-23) … Baker scored a game-high 23 points with four rebounds, four assists, one block, and one steal in an 81-71 loss to Westminster … The senior then netted a career-high 41 points, tied for the fourth-most in a game in program history, with 10 rebounds and seven assists in a 101-79 win at Bethany … The 41 points is the most by a PAC player since Geneva's Lyle Tipton scored 46 in a PAC Tournament game Feb. 21, 2023 ... He tied his season-best with five three-pointers and finished 18-21 from the foul line, with his 18 free throws ranking third in Allegheny single-game history … Barker finished the season with 519 points, seventh-best in team history, and his 1,451 career points rank fourth all-time. PAC Men's Basketball Honor Roll Chatham junior guard Lovenson Xavier (Naples, Fla./Community School of Naples); Franciscan sophomore guard Sawyer Butler (Beaver, Pa./Beaver); Geneva graduate student forward Ryan Rachic (Prince Frederick, Md./Calvert); Grove City junior forward Mike Christenson (Oakton, Va./Trinity); Saint Vincent junior guard Dev Ostrowski (Niantic, Conn./East Lyme); Thiel junior guard Mike Brown (Clinton, Md./Gwynn Park); W&J junior guard Matt Seidl (Pittsburgh, Pa./North Hills); Westminster junior guard Mick Hergenrother (Canfield, Ohio/Cardinal Mooney) PAC Newcomer of the Week Rob Thomas • Thiel • Freshman guard/forward • Pittsburgh, Pa./Penn Hills Thomas averaged 16.0 points and 10.5 rebounds and two steals as Thiel went 1-1 in league play in the final week of the season ... He posted career bests in points (29), rebounds (14) and offensive rebounds (nine) against W&J Wednesday for his first career double-double ... Thomas also swiped four steals and finished 10-of-18 from the field in the game ... Thomas pitched in three points and grabbed seven boards in Thiel's win at Waynesburg Saturday. PAC Men's Basketball Newcomer Honor Roll Allegheny freshman guard Devon Lewis (Fort Wayne, Ind./Canterbury School); Geneva freshman Tommy Coletti (Dover, Ohio/Dover); Saint Vincent freshman forward Matthew Puodziukaitis (Wellington, Fla./Palm Beach Central); W&J freshman guard/forward Cameron Rowell (Murrysville, Pa./Franklin Regional); Westminster freshman guard Jibri Carter Jr. (Youngstown, Ohio/Cardinal Mooney) PAC Records & Milestones Lovenson Xavier totaled 19 points, nine rebounds and three blocks in Chatham's 79-68 win over Westminster in the regular-season finale ... Franciscan's Sawyer Butler, who went 14-for-14 from the foul line in two games last week, scored a career-high 35 points in the Barons' win over Waynesburg Wednesday ... Geneva's Ryan Rachic averaged 17.5 points and 10.0 rebounds in a 2-0 week, which lifted the Golden Tornadoes to the fourth seed in the PAC Tournament and a home game in the quarterfinals ... Saint Vincent's Dev Ostrowski scored a game-high 25 points in the win over Grove City Saturday ... Against Waynesburg Saturday, Thiel's Mike Brown posted a season-high 17 points and sophomore Khamari Accursio-Harris (Jupiter, Fla./Jupiter) logged a career-high-tying 17 points ... As he was scoring a team-high 23 points in the Presidents' win at Thiel, Matt Seidl became the 27th men's player in W&J history to surpass 1,000 career points ... Westminster's Jibri Carter Jr. led three Titans in double figures at Chatham with a career-high 15 points on 5-for-8 shooting ... With a 21-4 overall record and 18-2 mark in conference, Chatham earned the top seed and home-court advantage for the 2025 PAC Tournament, which begins this week with quarterfinal games on Tuesday ... The semifinals are scheduled for Thursday and the PAC Championship Game will be Saturday, March 1, with all games played at the higher seeds ... The PAC Sports Network will be the hub for every game of the PAC Tournament and video links for each game can be found on their website.