2010-11 NAU Men's Basketball Season Highlights - Northern Arizona University Athletics

2010-11 NAU Men's Basketball Season Highlights

/ April 12, 2011

* NAU posted a 19-13 record on the season and was the No. 4 seed in the Big Sky Tournament after finishing 9-7 in league play. The Lumberjacks advanced to the Big Sky semifinals before losing to eventual champion Northern Colorado 73-70 on their home court.

* The Lumberjacks made their sixth national postseason appearance in school history and first in the CollegeInsider.com Tournament, losing to eventual champion Santa Clara.

* NAU's 19 wins are the most since the 2007-08 season (21) and the fifth season under Mike Adras with 18 or more wins during his tenure.

* The Lumberjacks finished the season with a seven-game home-court winning streak and went 12-1 at home this season, the second-best single-season winning percentage in school history. NAU played its home games in the Rolle Activity Center.

* The Lumberjacks were the second-best three-point shooting team in the country behind only Ohio State and ranked fourth overall in field goal percentage. NAU led the country in 3-pt shooting for seven consecutive weeks, 15 different ranking periods overall and finished the regular season as the No. 1 team in the country.

* NAU and Kansas are the only schools to rank among the top 35 in NCAA Division I in field goal percentage in each of the last six seasons. NAU and Ohio State were the only teams in Division I this season to rank among the national top five leaders in both field-goal percentage and 3-pt field goal percentage. NAU also ranked seventh in the nation in assists.

* Senior guard Cameron Jones earned Lou Henson All-America honors and was selected one of 10 finalists for the Lowe's Senior CLASS Award. He was a unanimous selection to the All-Big Sky first team and earned NABC All-District honors, the first player in school history to accomplish the distinction.

* Jones played in the Reese's College All-Star game at the Final Four, scoring 14 points to help the West team to the victory. He is the second player in school history to play in the NABC-sponsored event.

* Jones became the all-time leading scorer in school history in 2010-11, scoring 1,643 points and surpassing Kelly Golob's school record set from 2002-06. He scored 640 points on the season, breaking the school record set by Kyle Landry in 2007-08 of 561 and became the first player in school history to score 500 or more points twice and fourth overall to reach 500 points in a season. He also set single season marks for fields goals (623), field goal attempts (1,296), minutes played (1,045).

* Sophomore Gabe Rogers was named to the All-Big Sky second team, finishing the season as the fifth-best three-point shooter in the country by percentage. Rogers shot 46.8 percent beyond the arc, while hitting 82 three pointer and scoring 13.1 points per game.

* Senior Shane Johannsen was an All-Big Sky honorable mention selection. Johannsen had the nation's best field goal percentage at 72.7 percent (ESPN.com) for the second time in his career, tying his school and Big Sky Conference single-season field goal percentage mark during sophomore season. He set the school single-season block mark.

* NAU earned Big Sky Player of the Week honors four times during the season. Gabe Rogers, November 30: Scored a career-high 31 in a win over Pepperdine. Cameron Jones, January 10: Averaged 31.5 points in two games; Feb. 21: Averaged 23 points, six rebounds and 4.5 assists in two wins.. Shane Johannsen, February 7: Averaged 13.3 points and 4.7 rebounds in three wins.

* NAU won its ESPN Sears BracketBuster game at Cal Poly 59-56. The Lumberjacks appeared in the field for the fifth time in school history and first time since the 2007-08 season.

* NAU's win over Montana, a team ranked No. 14 in the CollegeInsider.com poll, was just the second victory over a team listed in the top 25 by the website...The last win over a CollegeInsider.com Top 25 team came against Western Kentucky in 2007.

* NAU has won six road games this season, tying the best total under Mike Adras done five times.

* Sophomore Stallon Saldivar ranked 31^st in Division I in assists per game at 5.4 while leading the Big Sky Conference and was seventh in the nation assist-to-turnover ratio at 2.88. He recorded three of the top 14 single-game assists totals in school history this season.

* NAU traveled to Canada August 11-15, 2010, to participate in the Battle of the Border tournament hosted by the University of Calgary at the Jack Simpson Gym. The Lumberjacks played five games over five days in the tournament, including a pair against the host Dinos.

Individual Honors

Gaellen Bewernick

Golden Eagle Scholar-Athlete Award

Luis Flores

Golden Eagle Scholar-Athlete Award

Shane Johannsen

All-Big Sky Honorable Mention

Mike Nesbitt Award

Golden Eagle Scholar-Athlete Award

Academic All-Big Sky

Big Sky Conference Co-Player of the Week, Feb. 7

Cameron Jones