Adelekun Named to the NABC All-District 13 Second Team

HANOVER, N.H. — One week after being named second team All-Ivy, Dartmouth men's basketball senior Dame Adelekun received another impressive honor on Tuesday, garnering National Association of Basketball Coaches second team All-District 13 honors. Adelekun is the first Big Green named All-District since Evan Boudreaux in 2016-17. Adelekun is just the second Dartmouth player to receive the distinction in the last 14 years.

Adelekun is one of seven Ivy League student-athletes recognized as All-District this season. Jordan Dingle (Penn), Tosan Evbuomwan (Princeton), Chris Ledlum (Harvard) and Kino Lilly Jr. (Brown) were named to the first team while Greg Dolan (Cornell) and Matt Knowling (Yale) joined Adelekun on the second team.

Some of the top senior season highlights from NABC All-District honoree Dame Adelekun! 🎥 pic.twitter.com/rYjUEou1sq
— Dartmouth Men's Basketball (@DartmouthMBB) March 14, 2023

In 2021-22, Adelekun averaged 13.8 points and 7.2 rebounds in 27 games (all starts), but was even better in league play. In Ivy League games, he came in at 16.8 points (fifth in the league), 7.1 rebounds (fourth) and 3.1 assists (sixth). He was one of just two Ivy League players to finish in the top five in scoring and rebounding and top 10 in assists in league games, the other being Paxson Wojcik of Brown. Adelekun was also a dominant shot blocker all season, leading the league in that category overall (53) and in league games (28).

Taking his game to another level as a senior, Adelekun began by scoring, a then career-high, 21 points in the season opener at Fordham. He went on to eclipse 20 points on three other occasions, including a historic 41-point, 10-rebound effort vs. Columbia. That tied a Leede Arena record (and was the most ever scored by a Big Green player in Leede). Adelekun was named Ivy League Player of the Week after that effort. He became the first player nationally to record a 40+ point double-double in a regulation game this season. Adelekun also became the sixth Dartmouth player to score 40 points in a game in program history, becoming the first to do so since Jim Barton had 48 on Feb. 7, 1987 at Brown.

Adelekun also scored 25 points in a big home win over first-place Princeton, while adding 24 at Penn two weekends later. He ended his Dartmouth career by leading the team in points (19), rebounds (8), assists (5) and blocks (4) in Saturday's 87-82 Senior Day win over Harvard, helping the Big Green sweep the Crimson for the first time in 24 years.

Adelekun's 56.3 field goal percentage (all games) was good for fourth in the Ivy League. He extended his range as the season progressed, also knocking down 7-of-17 from behind the arc. Adelekun ended the season with three double-doubles, eclipsing 500 career points at Penn. He twice made ESPN SportsCenter's Top 10 Plays of the Day, following a block against Cornell and sequence of a dunk followed by block vs. Columbia.

The Big Green excelled early in Ivy League play, which included one stretch of winning three-of-four and four-of-seven. Dartmouth ended up beating the top three seeds in the standings, and is still the only team to win at Yale. The Big Green were in contention for Ivy Madness until the second-to-last weekend, winning six league games for a second straight season – the first time that's happened since 1995-96 and 1996-97.

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