MIAA

Fort Hays State Dom Samac is this week’s MIAA Men’s Basketball Athlete of the Week after helping the Tigers to a pair of wins last week. Coming off the bench, Samac averaged 25 points per game by recording back-to-back 25-point games. The 25 points is a career high.

He shot 10-of-14 from the field and pulled down nine rebounds in each game, just missing double-doubles in each contest. In an 88-77 win over Nebraska-Kearney, he sparked a 21-9 run by the Tigers to close the game by scoring a 3-point play to push a Tiger lead to four points, then dished out a pair of assists on 3-point field goals to get the lead to eight. His final points came with just over three minutes to go to push the lead to eight once more. In a 73-66 win over Emporia State, he hit a shot with 3:33remaining to put the Tigers in front by one and they never trailed the rest of the way. The shot started a 14-6 run to close the game.

The 6-9 junior forward is a native of Zagreb, Croatia playing basketball at both North Broward Prep and Denver University.