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Men’s basketball falls in NAC semifinals

The Dominican University men’s basketball team wrapped up the most successful season the program has enjoyed since joining the NCAA Division III in 2000 with a 73-62 loss at Edgewood College on Friday night in the semifinals of the inaugural Northern Athletics Conference (NAC) Men’s Basketball Tournament. The Stars’ 17-10 overall record is the program’s best mark since the 1991-1992 season, when the Rosary College Rebels posted a 22-10 overall record competing at the Division I level of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA).

Dominican’s Jose Garcia (Kenosha, WI), a junior transfer from College of Lake County, paced the Stars’ offense with 14 points of 6-for-14 shooting from the field. Garcia, ranked 17th in the nation in three-point field goal percentage at 45.1 percent, connected on just two of his eight three-point field goal attempts.

Senior Erin McMillan (Chicago, IL) added 10 points in the losing effort while Mike Haiduc (Chicago, IL), the Stars’ leading scorer at 15.7 points per game, who entered the game with 999 career points, managed just seven points on 2-for-8 shooting from the field. With his first bucket of the game, Haiduc became just the 14th person to reach the 1,000-point plateau in a Dominican University/Rosary College uniform.

As a team, the Stars shot just 36.5 percent from the field and 21.7% from the field. Dominican did have one of its better games shooting 84.6 percent from the free throw line but made only 13 trips to the foul line while Edgewood made 30 trips to the charity stripe.

On the year, the Stars boasted a 12-6 record in NAC play, earning the right to host the program’s first conference tournament game as members of an NCAA Division III conference and won their first conference tournament game since 2000 with a 60-43 victory over Benedictine University on February 20.