FHSU Sports Information Department<\/p>\n
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Fort Hays State Men’s Basketball had three players named to the All-MIAA Team on Monday (Feb. 27). Senior guard Rob Davis was a repeat first-team selection, while junior forward Hadley Gillum and senior forward JaQuan Smith were honorable mention picks. Smith was also named to the MIAA All-Defensive Team.<\/p>\n
Davis earns the repeat first-team nod as one of the top scorers in NCAA Division II throughout the season, currently averaging 21.9 points per game. He has reached at least 30 points in eight games this year and at least 20 points in 16 games. He reached double figures in 24 of 27 regular season games and has a total of 590 points this season. Davis produced a career-high 42 points at Emporia State on February 1, tying the sixth-highest scoring performance in school history. He became the 19th player in school history to reach 1,000 points, passing the mark in early February, then passed 2,000 points for his entire collegiate career this past Thursday (Feb. 23).<\/p>\n
Gillum earns the first All-MIAA honor of his career with the honorable mention nod. He ranks 15th in the conference in scoring at 13.4 points per game and 11th in rebounding at 6.3 per game. He has scored in double figures 17 times this year and reached 20 or more in a game seven times, including a career-high 27 points at Central Oklahoma. He has five double-doubles in points and rebounds to his credit this year as well.<\/p>\n
In his only season with the Tigers, Smith earns both All-MIAA Honorable Mention and MIAA All-Defensive Team honors. Coaches voted Smith as one of five players on the all-defensive team. He ranks sixth in the MIAA in rebounding at 6.6 per game and sixth in blocked shots at 1.2 per game. He ranks third in scoring for FHSU at 7.9 points per game. Smith has three double-doubles in points and rebounds this season, reaching a season-high 17 points against Lincoln and 13 rebounds at Northeastern State. He blocked two or more shots in a game 11 times this year and has a total of 33 for the season.<\/p>\n
2016-17 All-MIAA Men’s Basketball Team<\/p>\n
Player of the Year
\nJustin Pitts, G, Jr., NWMSU<\/p>\n
Defensive Player of the Year
\nBrady Skeens, F, Jr., WU<\/p>\n
Freshman of the Year
\nElyjah Clark, F, Fr., MSSU<\/p>\n
Coach of the Year
\nBen McCollum, NWMSU<\/p>\n
All-MIAA First Team All-MIAA Second Team All-MIAA Third Team All-Defensive Team Honorable Mention All-MIAA FHSU Sports Information Department KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Fort Hays State Men’s Basketball had three players named to the All-MIAA Team on Monday (Feb. 27).… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3394,7349],"tags":[10567,4151,604,3466,106,181,103],"class_list":["post-31390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mens-basketball-sports","category-sports","tag-tigerpride","tag-all-miaa-selections","tag-fhsu-athletics","tag-fhsu-mens-basketball","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-miaa","tag-tiger-media-network"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31392,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31390\/revisions\/31392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nJustin Pitts, G, Jr., NWMSU**$
\nRob Davis, G, Sr., FHSU %<\/strong>
\nAnthony Virdure, G, Sr., LU
\nBrady Skeens, F, Jr., WU
\nTrey Lansman, C, Jr., UNK
\n**Unanimous Selection
\n% Two-time repeat First Team Selection
\n$ Three-time repeat First Team Selection<\/p>\n
\nSpencer Reaves, G, Jr., UCM
\nCJ Carr, G, Jr., MSSU
\nZach Schneider, F, Sr., NWMSU
\nChandler Diekvoss, F, So., LWU
\nCorbin Byford, F, Sr., UCO<\/p>\n
\nJaylon Smith, G, Sr., LU
\nChris Ebou-Ndow, G, Jr., NWMSU
\nBrandon Hall, G, So., ESU
\nKyle Wolfe, F, Sr., UCM
\nLogan Hovey, F, Jr., SBU<\/p>\n
\nBrady Skeens, F, Jr., WU
\nMarquiez Lawrence, F, Sr., UCM
\nJaQuan Smith, F, Sr, FHSU
\nBakari Triggs, G, Jr., LWU
\nChris Ebou-Ndow, G, Jr., NWMSU<\/p>\n
\nMarquiez Lawrence, UCM
\nJake Hammond, UCO
\nJosh Holiday, UCO
\nJosh Pedersen, ESU
\nJaQuan Smith, FHSU<\/strong>
\nHadley <\/strong>Gillium, FHSU<\/strong>
\nJackson Price, LWU
\nElyjah Clark, MSSU
\nJJ Cratit, MSSU
\nLawrence Brown, MSSU
\nCole Clearman, MWSU
\nYashua Trent, UNK
\nIsaiah MaKay, UNK
\nTy Danielson, UNK
\nMontre’ Williams, NSU
\nAnthony Woods, NWMSU
\nDeVonte Mosby, NWMSU
\nJavion Blake, WU
\nBrian Patterson, SBU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"