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2025-26 Men's Basketball Roster

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15 Michael Duax

  • Class Redshirt Senior
  • Position F
  • Ht./Wt. 6-5 /
  • Hometown Dubuque, Iowa

Biography

2025-26 (R-Senior, entering ASUN Tournament)
Duax averaged 7.4 points per game and 5.1 rebounds per game on 52.9% shooting from the field in the regular season. He posted eight double-digit games, including six in ASUN play, and had four 3-steal games in conference play. He had four consecutive double-digit games in the last three weeks of the season, and grabbed eight rebounds four different times. His 1.3 steals per game in conference play was the 11th best mark in the ASUN.

2024-25 (R-Junior)
Played in all 34 games with 25 starts … averaged 7.1 points and 4.5 rebounds per game … scored season-high 18 points vs. Jacksonville (Feb. 18) …  had a double-double with 10 points and 12 rebounds against North Florida (Feb. 24)..  scored in double figures in ten games … shot 48.4 percent from the field and 69.1 percent from the free-throw line.

PRIOR TO FGCU
2021-2024 at Northern Iowa

2023-2024 (R-Sophomore) 
College Sports Communicators Academic All-District … MVC Scholar-Athlete Second Team … Earned MVC Commissioner’s Academic Excellence Award and MVC Honor Roll recognition … Named Field of 68 Almanac’s MVC Preseason Breakout Player …appeared in all 33 games with five starts … averaged 3.8 points, 2.5 rebounds, and 14.1 minutes per game … shot 51% from the field and 55% from three (11-20) … posted a season-high 12 points twice (vs. Belmont on Nov. 29 and at UIC on Jan. 10) … recorded a season-best seven rebounds at South Florida (Nov. 19) and three steals vs. UIC (Jan. 10).

2022-2023 (R-Freshman) 
MVC All-Freshman Team selection … College Sports Communicators Academic All-District and MVC Scholar-Athlete First Team honoree … played in all 32 games with 28 starts … averaged 10.0 points, 4.7 rebounds, and 29.5 minutes per contest … shot 57.4% from the field (135-235) … tallied 35 assists, 42 steals, and 8 blocks … posted three double-doubles … scored a career-high 21 points at UIC (Jan. 21) … hit the game-winning buzzer-beater and pulled down a season-best 12 rebounds at Valparaiso (Jan. 4).

2021-2022 (Freshman) 
Redshirted … Earned MVC Honor Roll honors.

HIGH SCHOOL 
Starred at Dubuque Hempstead High School under coach Curt Deutsch … Compiled 1,209 career points, 424 rebounds, 195 assists, 139 steals, and 47 blocks … Three-year starter and two-time Mississippi Valley Conference Valley Division Player of the Year … Two-time IPSWA Class 4A First Team selection … Named to the Des Moines Register All-State Elite Team and 4A First Team as a senior … Averaged 21.9 points per game as a senior and 21.0 as a junior … McDonald’s All-America nominee and team captain … Member of the National Honor Society and the Dubuque Area Youth Leadership Council.

PERSONAL
Son of Bob and Katie Duax … Father played football at UNI in the 1980s … Majoring in Biology at FGCU.

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Historical Player Information

  • 10

    2024-25Redshirt Junior

    F
    6'5"
    10
  • 15

    2025-26Redshirt Senior

    F
    6'5"
    15