PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – The City of Basketball Love website recently announced their 2024-25 All-Area Awards for Division III and five Neumann University athletes, and one coach were among the recognized. Emily DuPont was named to the Women's Basketball First team and Lauren Klieber was honorably mentioned. On the men's side, Donte Dupriest was named to the First team, both DJ Earl and TJ Lewis received Second team honors, and coach Jim Rullo was an honor roll recipient.
 
DuPont was named the Atlantic East Conference Co-Defensive Player of the Year as well as the All-conference first team. She was named the Atlantic East Conference Defensive Player of the Week once and was honored by the conference a total of 12 times, being named to the weekly Honor Roll an impressive 11 times. She blocked the most shots in the conference, and was second in minutes per game, steals, and points per game.
 
Klieber's season was cut short by injury but her contributions to the team cannot be denied. She averaged 20.4 points per game, 7.9 rebounds, adding 18 assists, 17 steals, and 14 blocks. She was named the Atlantic East Player of the Week and Defensive Player of the Week, while picking up weekly Honor Roll selections four times. She was also named to the Coaches vs. Cancer All-tournament team.
 
Dupriest joined the Knights in late December and helped catapult his squad to an Atlantic East Conference title. He was named the conference's Player of the Year, the postseason tournament's Most Valuable Player, and was an All-Conference First team selection. Honored in the weekly awards eight times, including a Player of the Week nod, and four Defensive Player of the Week awards. Regionally, he's been named to the Division III Second team in Region V by both D3hoops.com and the National Association of Basketball Coaches.
 
Earl was an All-Atlantic East Conference Second team selection and named to the weekly Honor Roll three times. He averaged 17.4 points per game, 3.9 rebounds per game. He also had 41 assists, 37 steals, and eight blocks.
 
Lewis was named to the All-Atlantic East Conference Second team while being honored by the conference five times. He was named the conference Player of the Week on Janu
 13^th and was picked to the weekly Honor Roll four times. He even starred in the classroom, being honored as the Atlantic East Elite 20 winner, and was a College Sports Communicators academic All-District team.
 
Rullo led the Knights to a 20-8 overall record, and a 9-3 Atlantic East Conference record. His squad defeated Marywood University in the conference semifinals and won the championship in overtime against Marymount University. Along the way, the Knights challenged Division I Lehigh University to a close game as well as a tough battle against the eventual NCAA Division III National Champions, Trinity College.