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2009–10 Oakland Golden Grizzlies men's basketball team

2009–10 Oakland Golden Grizzlies men's basketball
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The Summit League regular season champions
The Summit League tournament champions
NCAA Tournament, First round
Conference The Summit League
2009–10 record 26–9 (17–1 Summit)
Head coach Greg Kampe
Assistant coach Jeff Tungate
Assistant coach Darren Sorenson
Assistant coach Saddi Washington
Home arena Athletics Center O'rena
Seasons
« 2008–09 2010–11 »
2009–10 The Summit League men's basketball standings
Conf     Overall
Team W   L   PCT     W   L   PCT
†-Oakland 17 1   .944     26 9   .743
x-IUPUI 15 3   .833     25 11   .694
x-Oral Roberts 13 5   .722     20 13   .606
x-South Dakota St. 10 8   .556     14 16   .467
x-IPFW 9 9   .500     16 15   .516
x-North Dakota St. 8 10   .444     11 18   .379
x-Western Illinois 6 12   .333     13 17   .433
x-UMKC 6 12   .333     12 18   .400
Centenary * 3 15   .167     8 21   .276
Southern Utah 3 15   .167     7 22   .241
Conference tournament winner
As of March 22, 2010; Rankings from AP Poll
* Ineligible for conference tournament
x-Clinched berth in conference tournament

The 2009–10 Oakland Golden Grizzlies men's basketball team were a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college basketball team representing Oakland University. Oakland finished the season 26–9 overall, 17–1 in The Summit League and were the league's regular season and conference tournament champions. The Golden Grizzlies received The Summit League's automatic berth into the NCAA tournament and, as a No. 14 seed, lost to No. 3 Pittsburgh in the first round.

Oakland was picked to win The Summit League championship, receiving 34 of the 35 first place votes. The Golden Grizzlies returned three starters from the 2008–09 team, plus senior Derick Nelson, who sat out the majority of the previous season due to a foot injury.

Also returning for Oakland was senior point guard Johnathon Jones, who led all Division I players in assists and junior center Keith Benson, who was being projected as a first round National Basketball Association draft pick. Benson, Jones and Nelson were each selected to The Summit League's pre-season all-league teams with Jones being selected as the pre-season Player of the Year.

Oakland's schedule included road games against the pre-season consensus number one and two teams, Kansas and Michigan State.


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