T.J. Weeks
Player
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Number: 23
Position: G
Height: 6' 4“
Weight: 190
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Transfer From: none
Birthday: March 15, 2000
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At UMass
Signed NLI on 4/17/2019.
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2022-23 Redshirt Junior year
Had work on his ankle in the 2022 off-season to address a lingering injury.
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2021-22 Redshirt Sophomore year
2020-21 Redshirt Freshman year
Redshirt request for the 2019-20 season was granted by the NCAA.
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Played in all 15 games of the Coronavirus-shortened season. Started in three games.
Shooting percentage from three came back down to earth, but shooting from two improved from 2019-20.
Minutes went down (20.4 from 26.0), as
Javohn Garcia added competition for playing time. Scoring average dipped as a result (9.7 from 14.7).
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Twelve points, two boards, four assists, three steals, and two blocks versus
Bryant (12/21).
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Minor injury to his left knee during the
La Salle game (1/9).
6) Did not return after seven minutes of action. Came back to play in the next game (
URI 1/13), but played just 12 minutes.
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Season-highs of 16 points and 80% shooting from three (4-5) versus
Davidson (1/24).
Double-double against
Fordham (2/3), with 13 points and a career-high 12 boards, plus five assists.
Fourteen points and a then-season-high 56% (5-9) from the floor at
Richmond (2/23).
Upped his season-high in shooting with 5-8 from the floor versus
Saint Joseph's (3/4), scoring 14 points, in just 15 minutes of work.
2019-20 Freshman year
Played in the season's first ten games, but then went out with an abdominal injury after the Harvard game (12/7).
Injury later classified as a hernia. Underwent surgery on 1/10 and needs 3-4 months recovery time, sidelining him for the rest of the season.
7) Coaching staff is confident that he will obtain a medical redshirt.
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At the time he went out with the injury, he was leading the team in scoring (147 points and 14.7 ppg), field goals attempted (109), 3-pointers made (32) and percentage (.485), free throws made (23), and steals (18).
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His .485 percentage from 3 was 15th in the NCAA and 3rd among rookies.
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32 made threes was tied for 16th in the NCAA and tied for 2nd among rookies.
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3.2 made threes per game was tied for 26th in the NCAA and tied for 2nd among rookies.
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Started off hot, shooting 8-12 overall and 4-6 from three, scoring 23 points in the season-opener versus UMass-Lowell (11/5).
Nine points and six boards in the road win at Fairfield (11/9/2019).
The performances over UML and Fairfield drew notice, and he won the Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Week in the season's first week.
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Scored 21 points and shot 6-6 from three in the win over Rider (11/20).
Tallied 19 points in consecutive games: St. John's (11/24) and Rutgers (11/29). Also snared a season high seven boards at Rutgers.
Fifteen points, three boards, three assists, and four steals versus South Carolina (12/4).
Statistics
Season | G | GS | MP | MPG | FG | FGA | FG% | 2P | 2PA | 2P% | 3P | 3PA | 3P% | FT | FTA | FT% | PTS | PPG | ORB | DRB | TRB | RPG | AST | STL | BLK | TOV | PF | FO |
2019-20 | 10 | 2 | 260 | 26.0 | 46 | 109 | .422 | 14 | 43 | .326 | 32 | 66 | .485 | 23 | 32 | .719 | 147 | 14.7 | 7 | 31 | 38 | 3.8 | 6 | 18 | 3 | 11 | 21 | 1 |
2020-21 | 15 | 3 | 306 | 20.4 | 51 | 138 | .370 | 28 | 62 | .452 | 23 | 76 | .303 | 21 | 29 | .724 | 146 | 9.7 | 13 | 39 | 52 | 3.5 | 17 | 13 | 4 | 17 | 17 | 0 |
2021-22 | 30 | 22 | 756 | 25.2 | 93 | 223 | .417 | 45 | 93 | .484 | 48 | 130 | .369 | 53 | 73 | .726 | 287 | 9.6 | 50 | 95 | 145 | 4.8 | 26 | 26 | 10 | 18 | 48 | 1 |
Career | 55 | 27 | 1322 | 24.0 | 190 | 470 | .404 | 87 | 198 | .439 | 103 | 272 | .379 | 97 | 134 | .724 | 580 | 10.5 | 70 | 165 | 235 | 4.3 | 49 | 57 | 17 | 46 | 86 | 2 |
Game logs from Sports Reference
Career Highs
High School / Prep School
Spent a prep year in 2018-19 at Woodstock Academy in Connecticut
Helped guide the Centaurs to a 38-2 record in 2018-19, climbing as high as No. 2 in the national rankings
Named to the National Prep School Invitational All-Tournament team after averaging 16.5 points per game during the tournament
Named to the USA Today All-USA Rhode Island First-Team after averaging 23 points, 10.7 rebounds and 2.2 blocks per game as a senior at Bishop Hendricken Catholic in 2017-18
Named to the Providence Journal's Rhode Island Interscholastic League All-Decade Team for the 2010s
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Named to the Providence Journal All-State First-Team as a senior
Guided the Hawks to back-to-back state championships, averaging 17 points and 7 rebounds per game as a junior
Spent first two years of high school at Pilgrim
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Personal
Tyrone Travis Weeks Jr. was born just as his father, a part of the coaching staff at
St. Bonaventure, was about to take on
Kentucky in the 2000 NCAA Tournament
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His father,
Tyrone Weeks Sr., scored over 1,000 points for UMass from 1994-98 and played in four consecutive NCAA Tournaments
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