FHSU Athletics
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A record-breaking assist performance helped Fort Hays State's Brooke Loewe earn the latest MIAA Women's Basketball Player of the Week honor, announced Monday (Jan. 12) by the league office.
Loewe averaged a double-double in a pair of wins last week, helping the sixth-ranked Tigers to a pair of road wins capping off a run of four games in eight days. The senior opened the week with a school-record 17 assists and eight points in a come-from-behind win over Nebraska-Kearney on Tuesday (Jan. 6).
The Huxley, Iowa native followed that up with 15 assists, 12 points and five rebounds in a win at Emporia State. That performance would have broken her old school record of 14 assists in a game were it not for her outing two days prior.
Both assist totals are more than any other Division II student-athlete this season, while her program-record 17 assists are the most across all NCAA Divisions this season and are the most by a DII athlete since 2023.
Loewe is now averaging 11.1 assists per game this season and is the only individual across all NCAA basketball, male or female, to average in double figures in assists. The guard has totaled 11 or more assists eight times this season while no other DII competitor has had more than three such performances.
Alongside Talexa Weeter's four weekly recognitions, the Tigers have now won five of the eight weekly honors given out by the conference this season. No other team in the league has had more than one weekly winner.
Fort Hays State will be back out on the road this week starting Thursday (Jan. 15) when the Tigers take on Missouri Western beginning at 5:30 p.m. in St. Joseph, Mo.