HOUGHTON — A year ago, the Michigan Tech Huskies men’s basketball program was at a crossroads of sorts. They had gone 10-20, and 11-17, and had lost a quality junior guard in Dan Gherezgher to the transfer portal.

The Huskies opened the season with wins over Missouri-St. Louis and Maryville, but then dropped three straight to Winona State, Concordia-St. Paul, and then No. 6 Minnesota-Duluth.

Michigan Tech was set to face Minnesota State-Moorhead, the No. 3 team in the country at that point.

Then-junior guard Marcus Tomashek pulled off an incredible effort, going 15-of-29 from the field, including 4-of-9 from three, scoring 40 points as the Huskies held off the Dragons.

“From a coaching standpoint, the thing you could look at there is I was preaching the years before, when we were strug

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