{"id":17995,"date":"2015-02-09T18:30:02","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T00:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=17995"},"modified":"2017-08-14T10:41:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T15:41:40","slug":"fhsus-dom-samac-named-miaa-mens-basketball-athlete-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=17995","title":{"rendered":"FHSU&#8217;s Dom Samac named MIAA men&#8217;s Basketball Athlete of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<div>Fort Hays State University \u00a0junior forward <dfn><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fhsuathletics.com\/roster.aspx?rp_id=2518&amp;elinkdata=37040\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"smarttag\" rev=\"2518\">Dom Samac<\/a><\/dfn> was named the MIAA Men&#8217;s Basketball Athlete of the Week <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_908726688\"><span class=\"aQJ\">on Monday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0for his efforts in a pair of home wins last week over Nebraska-Kearney and Emporia State.<\/p>\n<p>Samac had a huge week in a pair of home wins for the Tigers, coming off the bench to average 25 points per game by recording back-to-back 25-point games. The 25 points is a career high for Samac. He shot 10-of-14 from the field and pulled down nine rebounds in each game, just missing double-doubles in each contest.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>In a 73-66 win over Emporia State, he hit a shot with <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_908726689\"><span class=\"aQJ\">3:33\u00a0<\/span><\/span>remaining to put the Tigers in front by one and they never trailed the rest of the way. The basket started a 14-6 Tiger run to close the game.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fort Hays State University \u00a0junior forward Dom Samac was named the MIAA Men&#8217;s Basketball Athlete of the Week on Monday\u00a0for his efforts in a pair&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"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":false,"_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],"tags":[4099,2372,3466,1495],"class_list":["post-17995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mens-basketball-sports","tag-dom-samac","tag-fhsu-basketball","tag-fhsu-mens-basketball","tag-tigermedianet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17997,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17995\/revisions\/17997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}