Purcelle Named To D3Hoops.com Men's Basketball Team Of The Week

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CHICOPEE, Mass. - Elms College sophomore men's basketball player Brittain Purcelle (Tarrytown, N.Y.) was named to the D3Hoops.com Team of the Week as recently announced by the organization.

The Team of the Week presented by Scoutware is D3hoops.com's weekly honor roll, is in its 14th season of recognizing the top performance at each of the five positions from the previous week.

The award highlights the week's best players from the eight different regions throughout the country and encompasses 44 individual NCAA Division III athletic conferences.

Purcelle, who recently earned New England Collegiate Conference (NECC) Player of the Week for the first time this season, led the Blazers to a 2-1 week that included a 69-63 overtime win against Wheaton College on Dec. 7 and a 60-55 win over Worcester State University in the Coaches Vs. Cancer tournament consolation game on Dec. 12. For the week, Purcelle totaled 74 points (averaging 24.7 points per game), was 27 of 57 shooting from the field and connected on 19 of 23 attempts from the free throw line. In Elms' 98-92 double overtime loss to Buffalo State College, Purcelle netted a collegiate-career high 31 points highlighted by a 13 for 15 showing from the foul line.