ESPN just published an article listing Garrett and Darren as two of the top 13 freshmen mid-major players in the country:

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/insider/story/_/id/39154876/hits-misses-2023-24-men-college-basketball-freshman-class-far

Very exciting to have guys with this much eligibility left playing this well out of the gate

In the long run that's going to be a lot more important than whether we win a close game here or lose a close game there

JBIV and Buchanan sweep conference awards yet again!

Buchanan burst onto the scene in his A-10 debut with 38 points vs. Fordham, a new career-high and the most for a freshman in the NCAA this season. He was a remarkable 15-of-30 for the floor in scoring the most points for a GW first-year since SirValiant Brown's 42 points back in 1999.

The D.C. native finished the week averaging 23.5 ppg, 5.0 rpg and 3.0 spg while shooting 47.4% from the floor (18/38) and 71.4% from the free-throw line (10/14). While scoring nine points on Saturday at VCU, Buchanan was instrumental in limiting one of the Rams' top threats, Sean Bairstow, to 2-of-13 shooting in GW's two-point win.

Buchanan is up to 14.7 ppg in his debut campaign, the top rookie scorer in the A-10, the top rookie forward scorer in the nation

This week, it goes to Darren.

Thanks for providing this BM.  At this rate, maybe the year-end award should go to both Darren and Garrett?  That would be something...3 A10 rookie of the years in a two year period after going over 20 years without winning even one.
 

The Dude wrote:

Darren Buchanan Jr. has earned his third A-10 Rookie of the Week award!

DB Jr vs GJ for Rookie of the Year race is on

or they split the pro GWU vote and a 3rd person from another university wins????
 

15 and 7 for Darren Buchanan 
15 and 6 for Garrett Johnson 

What an incredible Freshman duo. The Future is very bright in Foggy Bottom 
 

GW73 wrote:

I wish I could be so confident about the "Future is very bright in Foggy Bottom" concering Buchanan and Johnson. CC  smartly recruited transfers with 3 and 4 years eligibilty remaining with the idea that they would stay at GW because transferring a second time would force second-time transfers to have sit out a year. But when the judge ruled in December that players didn't have sit out after transferring a second time, it blew up CC's recruiting strategy and we have heard his frustration with the court ruling. So with that in mind, do we believe that both Johnson and Buchanan will return to GW next season or that one of them or maybe niether of them will return? The transfer portal makes it very hard to plan and think about the future. It's almost like you have to recruit a new team each season. Lots of schools that pay a lot more than GW for players will be atttracted to Johnson and Buchanan. You can't blame them for looking for more money and a bigger stage.

Similar to Max & Christian Jones last year (although who knows anymore with CJ redshirting), I've seen DBJ make references to being excited about playing alongside Ty Bevins next season.  That would seem to indicate he's sticking around.  

Of course, I'm sure Richmond assumed Jason Nelson was sticking around and he ended up going to their crosstown rival.

One way to make sure that DBJ and GJ stick around is to make a contribution to FOG.

24 points 12 boards and 8-10 from FT for DBJr  

Authoring one of the great Freshman years in GW history as well as duos