NCAA Basketball: Daum, Hofstra top mid-major performers of the week
By Logan Butts
We’re knee deep into the NCAA Basketball conference season, and the mid-major action keeps getting more important. Let’s see who this week’s top performers were.
Best Performance, Individual – Mike Daum, South Dakota State
After having this category’s first multi-time winner of the season last week (shoutout to Ja Morant), it has happened again this week.
Last week’s runner-up and former winner from earlier this season Mike Daum takes this week’s crown for a pair of dominant performances. The Dauminator was far and away this week’s top mid-major performer.
On Thursday, the South Dakota State big man dropped a casual 30 and 17 (on 11-5 shooting, including 4-6 from three point range!) in an 87-69 blowout of North Dakota State.
Then for an encore, Daum posted a 33-16-5-3-2 statline in a 83-73 Jackrabbits win against Omaha.
The man is a machine. South Dakota State has won six in a row, placing them firmly atop the Summit League standings. Barring a massive slip-up in the conference tournament, Daum will be dancing again in March.
Honorable mention goes ETSU’s Patrick Good, who lit up Western Carolina for a program-record 11 three-pointers and 35 points, 14 more than his career-high.
Others include: Devontae Cacok who went for 20-19-4 steals and 22-16-5 steals (someone get this guy on a better team), DaQuan Bracey’s 25-6-6-3 in a OT win for Louisiana Tech vs Marshall, and Martaveous McKnight’s 30-6-6-3 in APB’s win over Texas Southern.