Surrey-raised Miguel Tomley just shattered a 23-year-old shooting record of an American university basketball team.
A former star at Newton’s Tamanawis Secondary, Tomley is now a guard with Idaho State Bengals in NCAA Division I.
On Tuesday (March 12) he became the men’s program’s all-time single-season leader in three-pointers, breaking the old team record of 82 set by Tim Erickson during the 2000-01 season.
“Big-time buckets all season long,” the team posted on twitter.com during a season-ending 72-58 loss to Montana Grizzlies in a semifinal round of the Big Sky tournament.
Your new Single-Season 3PM leader in ISU history... Miguel Tomley👌#SawWood // #RoarBengalsRoar pic.twitter.com/enQOyVKHVg
— Idaho State Men's Basketball (@IdahoStateMBB) March 13, 2024
Tomley is listed as a 6-foot-3 junior on the Idaho State website (isubengals.com).
This season he finished with 85 three-pointers in 222 attempts, in 30 games played for the Pocatello-based Bengals.
In the game against Montana, Tomley led the Bengals in scoring, finishing with 22 points on 7-of-15 shooting from the field and 4-of-7 from three-point land and three rebounds.
He earned All-Tournament Team honours after leading the Bengals to their first Big Sky Tournament semi-final appearance since 2009, in a “Cinderella run” for the team, according to video posted by a local TV news station.
Back in high school, in 2018, Tomley once scored an astonishing 66 points in Tamanawis Wildcats’ bronze-medal win at the BC boys basketball championships.
CLICK HERE to read stories about Tomley in the Now-Leader archives dating back to 2014, when he was in Grade 8 and his dream was to play NCAA Div. 1 basketball one day.
On March 9, his former high school team placed second in the big-school 4A division of the the BC School Sports Boys Basketball Provincial Championships, at Langley Events Centre, where Tamanawis fell 92-72 in the final to Victoria’s Spectrum Thunder.
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