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Buettner, Tomashek highlight GLIAC postseason awards

HOUGHTON — The GLIAC Champion Michigan Tech men’s basketball team highlighted the major award winners for the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Conference as head coach Josh Buettner earned his first GLIAC Coach of the Year honor while Marcus Tomashek was named the GLIAC Player of the Year, the league office announced on Friday.

Along with the major awards, two Huskies were tabbed to the All-Conference teams, with Tomashek earning First Team All-GLIAC for the second-straight season as Dawson Nordgaard earned Second Team All-GLIAC honors and Josh Terrian made the GLIAC All-Defensive team for the second-consecutive season.

Tomashek, the pride of Green Bay, Wisconsin, started all 20 conference games in the regular season averaging 22 points, 4.4 rebounds and three assists per game while shooting 41.5 percent from the field (136-of-328), 36.7 percent from 3-point range (55-of-155) and 72.4 percent from the charity stripe (113-of-156). He scored in double-figures in 16 games, with six 20-point games, five 30-point games and a career-high 45-point game, the highest in the league this season. He made a team-high nine 3-pointers in his career-high against then-No. 8 Ferris State. Tomashek also was atop the GLIAC with five Offensive Player of the Week selections.

Nordgaard, a native of De Pere, Wisconsin, started all 20 GLIAC games in the regular season, averaging 8.1 points, 3.3 rebounds, shooting 57 percent from the field (61-of-107) in under 20 minutes per game. He paced the Huskies with 10 blocks, adding 12 steals. He recorded nine games in double-figure scoring, with a season-high 16 points coming against Wayne State.

Terrain, hailing from Pewaukee, Wisconsin, started all 20 games in league play, logging 29.9 minutes per game, the second-best on the team, typically guarding the top player on the opposing team. He averaged 5.4 points, 3.7 rebounds and 2.1 assists per game for the Huskies with just 10 turnovers in GLIAC play. Terrain also contributed double-figure scoring outputs with 12 points versus Ferris State and 11 points against Lake Superior State. He is tied for second on the team with 14 steals in his junior campaign.

Buettner is in his fourth season at Michigan Tech and led the Huskies to the first outright GLIAC regular season championship for the first time since the 2002-03 season. Under his guidance, Buettner saw his Huskies squad complete eight series sweeps in the GLIAC regular season, highlighted by the first series sweep of Grand Valley State since the 2017-18 season, the first series sweep of Ferris State since the 2013-14 season, the first win at Jim Wink Arena since Feb. 4, 2015.

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