Men's Basketball | 1/5/2026 4:00:00 PM
Week 8 PAC Honors (for events between December 22-January 4)
The weekly award winners have been recognized for their performances during Week 8 of the 2025-26 season.
PAC Player of the Week
Sawyer Butler • Franciscan • Junior guard • Beaver, Pa./Beaver
Butler averaged 32.7 points during the break to lead the Barons to three wins ... First, the Barons won the Doc Greene Tournament at Juniata, their second in-season tournament title of the season, with wins over Stevenson and Juniata ... Butler scored 20 points in just 24 minutes against Stevenson while going a perfect 12-12 from the free-throw line ... Against Juniata, he scored a program-record 49 points, including another program record of eight made three-point field goals, while adding five boards and three steals ... He followed that up with 29 points in a non-conference home win over Capital ... On the week, he shot 54.5% (24-44) from the floor, 45.4% (10-22) from beyond the arc, and 85.1% (40-47) from the free throw line ... His 27.4 points per game leads all of NCAA Division III in scoring through Sunday's contests.
PAC Men's Basketball Honor Roll
Allegheny senior guard Ryan Lang (Sarver, Pa./Knoch); Bethany sophomore forward Jayden Jackson (Columbia, S.C./A.C. Flora); Chatham sophomore guard Sam Norfleet IV (Triangle, Va./Rock Creek Christian Academy); Geneva senior guard Nick Million (Poland, Ohio/Columbiana); Grove City senior guard/forward Mike Christenson (Oakton, Va./Trinity); Hiram junior forward DJ Niles (Maple Heights, Ohio/Cornerstone Christian); Saint Vincent senior guard Dev Ostrowski (Niantic, Conn./East Lyme); Thiel freshman forward Kadenne Kemp (Inglewood, Calif./Northgate-Pa.); Westminster graduate student guard DJ Harrell (Cleveland, Ohio/East Technical)
PAC Newcomer of the Week
Semaj Marshall • Bethany • Freshman guard • Washington, D.C./Parkside
Marshall had the best game of his young career with a career-high 15 points, five assists, three rebounds, a block and a steal in his first collegiate start in Bethany's 78-61 win over Houghton ... Eleven of Marshall's points came in the second half, as the Bison broke a halftime tie by outscoring Houghton 43-26 in the second half.
PAC Men's Basketball Newcomer Honor Roll
Allegheny freshman forward Pijus Latauskas (Vilnius, Lithuania/Kiski Prep-Pa.); Geneva freshman guard/forward Tayt Lucas (Butler, Pa./Butler); Grove City freshman guard Kellen Howard (Clarksville, Tenn./Clarksville); Thiel freshman guard Adrian Llamo (Naples, Fla./Naples); Westminster freshman guard Nick Ryan (Warren, Ohio/John F. Kennedy)
PAC Records & Milestones
Allegheny's Pijus Latauskas was named to Otterbein's Smokey Ballenger Classic All-Tournament Team after averaging 14.0 points, 5.5 rebounds and 1.5 blocks in games against Otterbein and Albion ... Jayden Jackson led Bethany past Houghton for their first home win of the season by scoring 21 points and added 11 rebounds to finish with his fourth double-double of the season ... Chatham's Sam Norfleet IV posted 14 points, which included a perfect 6-for-6 from the foul line, in a 62-55 victory at Baldwin Wallace ... Geneva's Nick Million was named to the Wooster Kiwanis Classic All-Tournament Team after he averaged 13.0 points, 6.5 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 2.0 steals in games against Wooster and Hanover ... Mike Christenson fired in 24 points on 10-of-18 shooting in Grove City's 69-42 victory over visiting Alfred and became the 33rd man in program history to reach the 1,000-point mark ... After scoring a team-high 15 points in a 91-83 win over Adrian, Hiram's DJ Niles set career-highs with 18 points and 12 rebounds against Penn State Behrend ... Dev Ostrowski scored 18 points, including the 1,000th of his Saint Vincent career, in the Bearcats' last-second 78-76 victory against Carnegie Mellon on New Year's Eve, becoming the 38th player in Saint Vincent's program history to record 1,000-plus career points ... Kadenne Kemp recorded his first career double-double with career-and-game highs in points (18) and rebounds (10) in Thiel's matchup with Heidelberg ... Westminster's DJ Harrell finished with 21 points, six rebounds and three assists in Saturday's 88-79 win over previously unbeaten Pitt-Greensburg.