Penn State basketball senior guard D’Marco Dunn was named the Big Ten Player of the Week Monday after his career performance at No. 12 Wisconsin.
Dunn earned his first Player of the Week honor after scoring a career-high 25 points against the Badgers. 15 of those points came in the second half as PSU erased an early 13-point deficit.
Penn State basketball had gotten off to its best start in five years after beating Northwestern on Jan. 2. Four games later, though, all of which were losses, Puff Johnson suffered a season-ending wrist/hand injury. His loss marked the beginning of a torrid stretch, where Penn State won only one of eight games. With other injuries to players like Ace Baldwin Jr. and Yanic Konan Niederhauser, a void was left in the rotation, and Dunn assumed the mantle.
The North Carolina transfer proved to be one of the few bright spots this season for PSU (16-15, Big Ten 6-14). As his minutes went from 15.9 to 25.5 in the second half of the season, so did his production. After a subpar first half of the year, Dunn increased his output in nearly every statistical category. Over the final eight games, he averaged 13 points while shooting 58% from the field, 48% from 3, and 85.7% from the free-throw line.
Add Nittany Sports Now as a preferred source in Google! Click here to add us.Two of his best scoring games came in 2025, such as his then career-high 18 against No. 12 Michigan State. After only eclipsing double digits four times from Nov. 4 to Dec. 29, Dunn more than doubled that amount (nine) in the backend of the season.
D’Marco Dunn transferred to Penn State after two seasons at North Carolina. In his two years with the Nittany Lions, he averaged 7.6 points, 2.2 rebounds and shot 38.7% from 3-point range.
