Oakland Golden Grizzlies men's basketball
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| University | Oakland University | ||
| Conference | Horizon League | ||
| Location | Auburn Hills, MI | ||
| Head coach | Greg Kampe (33rd year) | ||
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Athletics Center O'rena (Capacity: 4,005) |
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| Nickname | Golden Grizzlies | ||
| Colors | Black and Gold |
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| NCAA Tournament appearances | |||
| D-II: 1994 • 1995 • 1996 • 1997 D-I: 2005 • 2010 • 2011 |
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| Conference tournament champions | |||
| 2005 • 2010 • 2011 | |||
| Conference regular season champions | |||
| 1995–96 • 1996–97 • 1999–00 • 2009–10 • 2010–11 | |||
The Oakland Golden Grizzlies are the men's basketball team that represent Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, United States. The school's team competes in the Horizon League and plays their home games at the Athletics Center O'rena. The Golden Grizzlies are coached by Greg Kampe. Kampe is the third longest-tenured Division I head coach, behind Jim Boeheim and Mike Krzyzewski. Oakland last played in the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament in 2011.
Through February 4, 2017, Oakland has made a three-point field goal in 895 consecutive games, the ninth-longest active NCAA Division I streak. They last finished a game without a three-pointer on January 30, 1988.
The Oakland men's basketball program began competing in the 1967 season, 10 years after the university opened. Originally nicknamed the Pioneers, they won their first NCAA game 109–106 in overtime against Albion. The Pioneers were without a conference until 1974 when they joined the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC).
The first year as members of the GLIAC, Oakland hired Greg Kampe, who is still the head coach at the university. Kampe has the fifth-longest tenure of all active Division I coaches. Oakland won two regular season GLIAC championships, in 1995–96 and 1996–97, their final two seasons in the league. In a 1993 game against Madonna, Oakland scored 91 points in the first half, on their way to a 189–107 victory. That game set school records for most points in a half (98) and largest margin of victory (82). The next three seasons, OU scored more than 100 points 30 times, winning 29 of those games.
Oakland played at the Division II level until 1997 when they changed their nickname to the Golden Grizzlies and began the transition to Division I. OU opened the Athletics Center O'rena in 1998 against Michigan State. When the O'rena was being built, home basketball games were played in the Sports Dome, an inflatable "bubble" used for practice by Oakland's athletic teams during the winter. The original basketball stadium was in the Hollie L. Lepley Sports Center.
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