ST. LOUIS – Southern Illinois senior Marcus Domask was named the State Farm Missouri Valley Conference Scholar-Athlete of the Year, the League office announced Monday.
Domask holds a 3.99 cumulative grade point average in Sport Administration. He leads the Salukis and is fifth in the MVC in scoring at 17 points per game. He also leads SIU in rebounding (5.8) and assists (3.8). He tied a career-high with 32 points against Illinois State — the third time this season that Domask has scored 30 or more points, and he is one of just two players in the MVC to hit the 30-point mark in a game three times this season.
Other previous winners of the award from SIU include Bryan Mullins (2009), Kent Williams (2002, 2003) and Jamaal Tatum (2007).
Trent Brown (Finance, 3.91 GPA) was named to the Second Team. He was a First-Team MVC Scholar-Athlete in 2020-21. The Scottsdale, Arizona native started in 18 games, seeing action in 29 games this season, and is averaging three points a game for the Salukis.
Domask is joined on the first-team unit by Michael Duax of UNI; Ben Krikke of Valparaiso; Rienk Mast of Bradley; and Filip Skobalj of UIC. Krikke and Mast were first-team MVC Scholar-Athlete Team selections last year as well.
The criteria for the MVC Scholar-Athlete Team voting parallels the CSC (College Sports Communicators) standards for Academic All-America voting. Student-athletes must be a starter or important reserve with at least a 3.50 cumulative grade point average (on a 4.0 scale). He must have participated in at least 75 percent of his team’s games during the regular season. No student-athlete is eligible until he/she has completed one full calendar year at his/her current institution and been on a college roster in that sport for two years. For transfers, graduate students, and two-year college graduates, the student-athlete must have completed one full calendar year at the nominating institution to be eligible, although graduate students who are competing at a different institution than the one from which they earned their undergraduate degree are eligible even if they are in their first semester at the graduate institution. Nominees in graduate school must have a cumulative GPA of 3.50 or above both as an undergrad and in grad school.
