POSTSEASON HONOR ROLL
CollegeInsider.com
    Lou Henson Award / Mid-Major Player of the Year
        Keith Benson, Oakland
    Lou Henson / Mid-Major All-America Team
        Keith Benson, Oakland
        Robert Glenn, IUPUI
    Lefty Driesell Defensive All-America Team
        Keith Benson, Oakland
    Mid-Major Defensive All-America Team
        Derick Nelson, Oakland
        Billy Pettiford, IUPUI
    Mid-Major Freshman All-America Team
        Warren Niles, Oral Roberts

Associated Press
    Honorable Mention All-America
        Keith Benson, Oakland

D1-AAA Athletic Directors Association
    Scholar-Athlete Team 
        Ben Botts, IPFW  

CollegeHoops.net
    Mid-Major All-America Team 
        Keith Benson, Oakland (1st)
        Alex Young, IUPUI (2nd)
        Robert Glenn, IUPUI (2nd)

National Association of Basketball Coaches 
    All-District 12
        Keith Benson, Oakland
        Robert Glenn, IUPUI
        Johnathon Jones, Oakland

ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District
    District V
            David Nurse, Western Illinois

FROM THE SUMMIT
What You Need To Know

• The Summit League was one of seven leagues outside of the "power six" conferences to have two teams with at least 25 victories this season. Overall, when including the power six conferences, 12 leagues were able to make that claim. The feat, achieved by Oakland and IUPUI, marked just the second time that the league has had a pair of 25-win teams in the same season and the first occurence since 1986-87. Three teams, including Oral Roberts, posted 20-win seasons for the first time since 1993-94.
  
• The Summit League was one of six leagues outside of the "power six" conferences to have both of its championship game participants compete with top-85 RPI ratings. Oakland was No. 52 and IUPUI was No. 83 when the teams met March 9 in Sioux Falls, S.D.
  
• For the second consecutive season, The Summit League sent multiple teams to the postseason. Oakland earned the league's automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament while IUPUI was selected to the College Basketball Invitational. The Jaguars first round CBI victory marked The Summit League's second straight year with a postseason win.
  
• The 2010 Summit League Basketball Championships drew 30,791 fans for the men's and women's tournaments, marking the second-highest total in league history, trailing only the 2009 event. Corporate sponsorships surpassed the 2009 record total and all for the first time, all 14 games were televised, including all seven men's contests with a national reach via ESPN360, ESPN Full Court and ESPN2.

SUMMIT POINTS
League Notes

RANK AND FILE
Oakland finished the season at No. 9 in the CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Top 25 while IUPUI also received votes in the final poll. After entering the season with a No. 14 ranking, the Golden Grizzlies ascended to the No. 8 position from March 1-April 6. The Jaguars peaked at No. 22 in the Feb. 8 Mid-Major Top 25 poll. The Summit League was ranked No. 24 in the final Sagarin rankings and No. 26 in the final RPI. Three league teams finished among the nation's top 130 in the RPI with Oakland leading the way at 53rd, IUPUI at 86th and Oral Roberts at 130th.

ELITE COMPANY
The Summit League was one of just four leagues in Division I men's basketball to have its regular season champion post 17 or more wins and capture the tournament title. Oakland went 17-1, setting Summit League marks for league wins and winning percentage (.944), before posting a trio of victories to claim The Summit League Championship. Earlier in the season, the Golden Grizzlies tied the all-time record for consecutive Summit League victories with 16, matching Cleveland State's streak during the 1992 and 1993 league seasons. Oakland won its first nine league games this season, marking the third-best start in Summit League history.

WINNING WAYS
The Summit League's top two teams (Oakland and IUPUI) combined for 32 league victories this season and the top three (including Oral Roberts) totaled 45, each marking the highest such totals in history. Four teams (Oakland, IUPUI, ORU and South Dakota State), posted double-digit win totals in league play for only the eighth time in history. 

TRIFECTA
Oral Roberts was the lone Summit League team to defeat a nationally-ranked opponent this season when the Golden Eagles took down previously unbeaten No. 13 New Mexico, 75-66, on December 23 in Tulsa. The win marked the highest-ranked opponent beaten by a league team since ORU won at No. 3 Kansas in 2006-07. ORU also notched wins against "power six" conference foes Stanford and Missouri this season.

NATIONAL LEADERS
IUPUI finished second in the final NCAA statistics for team field goal percentage at a 50.4 percent clip. In addition, four Summit League players ranked among the top 10 in individual categories. Oakland's Johnathon Jones led the way by placing fourth in assists per game (6.4) while Western Illinois' Ceola Clark finished fifth in steals per game (2.7). Oakland's Keith Benson was eighth in blocked shots per game (3.3) and IUPUI's Robert Glenn placed ninth in field goal percentage (58.1).

SHARPSHOOTERS
The Summit League ranked fourth nationally and above all six "power conferences" in free throw percentage (71.30 percent) and placed 10th, ahead of five "power conferences", in three-point field goal percentage (35.16 percent) among the 32 NCAA Division I leagues and independents. Sixty percent of The Summit League placed in the top 28 percent of NCAA teams in free throw shooting as six league teams were ranked among the top 92. South Dakota State led the way at No. 21 (74.5 percent) and Garrett Callahan was the league's top representative in the individual rankings at No. 27 (87.0 percent). From beyond the arc, three Summit League teams placed among the NCAA's top 60 in three-point field goal percentage, led by IUPUI at 19th (38.9 percent). 

SELECT FEW
Fourteen of The Summit League's 19 Player of the Week awards this season went to three players. IUPUI's Robert Glenn led the way with six awards, the highest total on record back to 1990-91. Oakland's Keith Benson garnered five accolades and IPFW's Deilvez Yearby was lauded three times during the 2009-10 campaign.

SO CLOSE
Oakland's Keith Benson finished the year with 367 rebounds, the second-highest single-season total in league history and just one shy of equaling the record of 368 set by Valparaiso's Chris Ensminger in 1995-96.

UPSETS HONORED
Sports Illustrated released its top-ten basketball upsets of the decade (2000-09) in December and two Summit League schools, North Dakota State and Oral Roberts, ranked fourth and eighth, respectively. In January 2006, prior to joining the league, the Bison snapped Wisconsin's 27-game home non-conference win streak with a 62-55 triumph at the Kohl Center. The following season in November 2006, the Golden Eagles knocked off then-No. 3 Kansas at Allen Fieldhouse, 78-71, marking the highest-ranked opponent defeated by a Summit League team.

JAGUARS GO ON BASKETBALL MISSION
IUPUI took a seven-day trip to Costa Rica in August that included four exhibition games and the distribution of 2,000 pairs of shoes to needy children. Jaguars head coach Ron Hunter has been instrumental in Samaritan's Feet, an effort to provide shoes to those in need throughout the world.