Tomaashek wins second straight MVP
HOUGHTON, Mich. – The Michigan Tech men’s basketball coaching staff has announced the annual team award winners for the 2024-25 season. Junior guard Marcus Tomashek earned the Ken Hamar Award for the second-straight year, given to the team’s most valuable player.
Tomashek elevated his game to a new level in his junior campaign, helping Michigan Tech secure the outright GLIAC regular-season Championships and a trip to the NCAA Tournament. He scored the fourth-most points in program history with 720 points, averaging 23.2 points, 4.2 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game. The scoring machine amassed nine 30 or more-point games with two 40-point outbursts, including a career-high 45-point showing. He earned five GLIAC Offensive Player of the Week awards, one NABC Player of the Week award, was the D2CCA Midwest Region Player of the Year, GLIAC Player of the Year, a First Team All-GLIAC selection, D2CCA All-Region First Teamer, a D2CCA All-American, an NABC All-District selection, an NABC All-American and has been named to the Bevo Francis Top-25 Watch List.
Redshirt freshman Gabe Smith earned the Bill Gappy Award, going to the most improved player. Smith, a native of St. Germain, Wisconsin, went from coming off the bench to starting the final 11 games of the season. He scored in double-figures in 11 games this season with a career-high of 21 points and 12 rebounds. In 20.2 minutes per game, he averaged 6.8 points, 3.5 rebounds, including a team-leading 1.5 offensive rebounds per game, to go with 1.1 steals and 0.9 assists.
Bill Gappy (MTU Athletics Hall of Fame) collected 146 wins in 12 seasons as head coach of the Huskies (1972-83, 1984-85).
For the third consecutive year, Josh Terrian earned the Harold Meese Sportsmanship Award. The Pewaukee, Wisconsin, native played and started all 32 games for the Huskies this season, averaging 28.3 minutes per game. He earned All-GLIAC Defensive Team accolades for the second-straight season, averaging 4.3 points, 3.7 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 0.7 steals per game for the Black & Gold.
Harold Meese (MTU Athletics Hall of Fame) spent 36 years as a professor and dean of students at Michigan Tech. He also served on the Michigan Tech Athletic Board and helped create and administer the athletic grant-in-aid program.
Freshman guard Ty Fernholz earned the Bob Olson Outstanding Newcomer Award. The Stoughton, Wisconsin, product played in 22 games logging 20.2 minutes per game, holding the highest 3-point percentage on the team (47.9%), making 58 3-pointers on 121 attempts. He averaged 10.8 points two rebounds and two assists per game in his first season with the Huskies.
Smith also earned the Scholastic Achievement Award, holding a 4.0 cumulative GPA in civil engineering.
The Michigan Tech men’s hoops squad finished the 2024-25 season as the outright regular-season GLIAC Champions with an overall record of 24-8 (17-3 GLIAC), earning an at-large berth to the NCAA Tournament, finishing the campaign in the round of 32.
