{"id":25822,"date":"2016-03-01T20:16:30","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T02:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=25822"},"modified":"2017-08-14T11:19:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T16:19:38","slug":"davis-nicholson-and-samac-named-to-all-miaa-mens-basketball-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=25822","title":{"rendered":"Davis, Nicholson, and Samac Named to All-MIAA Men\u2019s Basketball Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FHSU Sports Information Department<\/p>\n<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2013 Fort Hays State Men&#8217;s Basketball had three players named to the All-MIAA Men&#8217;s Basketball Team on Tuesday (Mar. 1). Rob Davis earned first team honors, while Craig Nicholson and Dom Samac each earned third-team selections.<\/p>\n<p>Davis leads Fort Hays State in scoring this year at 17.4 points per game. In his first season at FHSU, he ranks seventh in the MIAA in scoring, but sixth in conference games only at 18.4 per game. Davis is one of the top 3-point shooters in the conference, shooting 47.4 percent from beyond the arc hitting 73 of 154 attempts. He scored 20 or more points in a game 10 times during the regular season with a game high of 36 points, which tied the most points scored in a game by a Fort Hays State player under head coach Mark Johnson. He reached double figures in scoring in 26 of the 28 regular season contests.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholson earns the fourth all-conference honor of his career with the third team selection. Nicholson is among the conference&#8217;s assist leaders at 4.8 per game. He averages 11.7 points per game this season, scoring in double figures 15 times this year despite missing five games with an injury. He has two double-doubles this year in points and assists. Nicholson is among the top players all-time at Fort Hays State. He ranks sixth all-time in scoring with 1,412 points and second all-time in assists with 619. For his career, he is averaging 14.6 points and 6.4 assists per game and he is the all-time leader in free-throws made at FHSU with 467.<\/p>\n<p>Samac earns third team honors for the second straight year. He is averaging 13.8 points and a team-best 7.0 rebounds per game. He is shooting 54.9 percent from the field, which ranks second in the conference. He ranks seventh in the conference in rebounding. Samac scored in double figures 19 times during the regular season with a game high of 28 points. He has two double-doubles in points and rebounds this season.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the 2016 All-MIAA Men&#8217;s Basketball Team<\/p>\n<p><em>Player of the Year<\/em><br \/>\nJustin Pitts, G, So., NWMSU<\/p>\n<p><em>Defensive Player of the Year<\/em><br \/>\nBrady Skeens, F, So., WU<\/p>\n<p><em>Freshman of the Year<\/em><br \/>\nJavion Blake, G, Fr., WU<br \/>\nCoach of the Year<br \/>\nBen McCollum, NWMSU<\/p>\n<p><em>All-MIAA First Team<\/em><br \/>\nJustin Pitts, G, So., NWMSU**[r2]\nConnor Beranek, F, Sr., UNK**[r2]\nTaevaunn Prince, G\/F, Sr., MSSU**<br \/>\nCory Arentsen, G\/F, Sr., LWU**<br \/>\n<strong>Rob Davis, G, Jr., FHSU<\/strong><br \/>\n**Unanimous Selection<br \/>\n[r2] Two time repeat First Team Selection<\/p>\n<p><em>All-MIAA Second Team<\/em><br \/>\nTerrence Moore, G, Sr., ESU<br \/>\nAnthony Virdure, G, Jr., LU<br \/>\nJosiah Gustafson, G, Jr., PSU<br \/>\nEthan Brozek, C, Sr., UNK<br \/>\nConner Crooker, G, Sr., NWMSU<\/p>\n<p><em>All-MIAA Third Team<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Craig Nicholson, G, Sr., FHSU<\/strong><br \/>\nTrey Lansman, F, So., UNK<br \/>\n<strong>Dom Samac, F, Sr., FHSU<\/strong><br \/>\nCharlie Brown, G, So., MSSU<br \/>\nZach Schneider, F, Jr., NWMSU<\/p>\n<p><em>All-Defensive Team<\/em><br \/>\nBrady Skeens, F, So., WU<br \/>\nStanislas Heili, C, Sr., LWU<br \/>\nTerrence Moore, G, Sr., ESU<br \/>\nJavis Flynn, G, Sr., PSU<br \/>\nEthan Brozek, C, Sr., UNK<\/p>\n<p><em>Honorable Mention All-MIAA<\/em><br \/>\nD&#8217;Marnier Cunningham, UCM<br \/>\nSpencer Reaves, UCM<br \/>\nSeth Heckart, UCO<br \/>\nCornell Neal, UCO<br \/>\nCharles McKinney, ESU<br \/>\nKevin Allen, ESU<br \/>\nJaylon Smith, LU<br \/>\nAustin Wright, MSSU<br \/>\nAaron Emmanuel, MWSU<br \/>\nTrey Mohair, NSU<br \/>\nDakota Caudill, NSU<br \/>\nChris-Ebou Ndow, NWMSU<br \/>\nTrey Starks, PSU<br \/>\nJavis Flynn, PSU<br \/>\nLogan Hovey, SBU<br \/>\nJavion Blake, WU<br \/>\nBrady Skeens, WU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FHSU Sports Information Department KANSAS CITY, Mo. \u2013 Fort Hays State Men&#8217;s Basketball had three players named to the All-MIAA Men&#8217;s Basketball Team on Tuesday&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":"Davis, Nicholson, and Samac Named to All-MIAA Men\u2019s Basketball Team","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":[6818,580,3466,106],"class_list":["post-25822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mens-basketball-sports","category-sports","tag-roartigers","tag-all-miaa","tag-fhsu-mens-basketball","tag-fort-hays-state-university"],"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\/25822","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=25822"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25825,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25822\/revisions\/25825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}