NCAA APPEARANCE CAPS KAT'S SUCCESSFUL SEASON
 Sam Houston State completed its most successful season in its 24 years at the NCAA Division I level with a stellar performance as the No. 14 seed in a 68-59 loss to No. 3 seed and 19th-ranked Baylor
 In its second appearance in the NCAA "Big Dance," the Bearkats led by as many as seven points, were up by one at half and were tied 55-55 with 3:48 with a squad many media experts picked as a possible Final Four participant.
 Bearkat players were featured in articles in the Washington Post, New York Times, Sports Illustrated and other major publication and on television networks including ESPN, ESPN2, CBS and NBC.
 Sam Houston loses four seniors including three starters, but leading scorer Gilberto Clavell and versatile forward Josten Crow return along with reserve players Lance Pevehouse, Drae Murray, Antuan Bootle, Marco Cooper and Aaron Thompson to give Bearkat fans a reason to look forward to the 2010-11 season.

25 VICTORIES MOST FOR KATS AT NCAA DIVISION I LEVEL
 Sam Houston's 25-8 record in 2009-10 marks the Bearkats' sixth 20-plus victory season under head coach Bob Marlin. The 25 victories are a school record for the team's 24 years of play at the NCAA Division I level.

BEARKATS WON THIRD SOUTHLAND REGULAR SEASON CHAMPIONSHIP
 Sam Houston won its third Southland regular season championship this season, rolling up a 14-2 record. Head Coach Bob Marlin's Bearkats also won the league in 2000 and 2003. The Kats lost in the semifinals of the 2000 Southland tournament but won the post-season event in 2003.

20-VICTORY SEASONS
 Sam Houston is one of 52 NCAA Division I men's basketball teams that have rolled up 20-victory seasons in four of  the last five years. Of those 52 teams, Sam Houston ranks 27th in winning percentage with a 109-47 record from 2006 to 2010.
 During head coach Bob Marlin's tenure, Sam Houston has produced six 20-win seasons. Sam Houston's 25 wins this year surpasses the Kats' previous best of 23-7 in 2003 and 23-8 in 2008.

BEARKATS SET RECORDS IN 2010
 Sam Houston's double-figure scoring trio of Gilberto Clavell, Corey Allmond and Ashton Mitchell wrote their names in the Sam Houston State record book this season.
 Clavell, a junior forward, led the Kats with 563 points, the highest single season scoring total for a Sam Houston player at the NCAA Division I level. Clavell's 563 points tie as the fourth highest season point total in school history. James Lister holds the record with 674 points in 1970-71. Bill Mehrens (646 points in 1967-68) and Lister (596 in 1969-70) stand second and third the records while Clavell is tied with Bruce Allen (563 points in 1984-85).
 Allmond's 521 points this year tie him for 13th all-time in season points at Sam Houston. The total is the fourth best in SHSU's NCAA Division I history. Allmond completed his career 23rd in all-time career scoring with 979 points and third all-time in career 3-pointers with 195. The senior guard has produced the two best 3-point field goal season single totals ever with 99 as a junior and 96 this year.
 Mitchell completed his four-year career as Sam Houston's 19th all-time leading scorer with 1,101 points. Mitchell ranks third all-time in Sam Houston assists with 567.

KATS WERE TWO ROAD OT LOSSES AWAY
FROM PERFECT SOUTHLAND RECORD
 The two losses in Sam Houston's 14-2 Southland record in 2010 both came in road overtime defeats. The Bearkats were five points away from going unbeaten.
 UTSA won 91-90 in overtime in San Antonio, ending an 11-game winning streak. Texas State edged the Kats 101-97 in the regular season finale in San Marcos.
 The 2010 Kats have shown the ability to win away from home. Sam Houston is 12-6 on the road or at neutral sites. That includes a tournament championship at the Cancun Challenge in Mexico and a 6-2 road record in Southland Conference play. Under head coach Bob Marlin, Sam Houston is 58-45 on the road in league action.

THE 2010 BEARKATS
 The 2010 Southland Conference regular season champion Bearkats rank No. 1 in the league in scoring offense, scoring margin, assists, 3-pointers per game and assist/turnover ratio. The Kats are No. 2 in the Southland in field goal pct. and 3-point shooting.
 Sam Houston ranks among the top 50 teams in eight statistics, leading NCAA Division I men's basketball in assists (20.9) and are No. 4 in assist/TO ratio, No. 8 in treys per game and No. 10 in scoring offense.

HIGHEST SCORING DIVISION I BEARKAT SQUAD
 With 2,616 points this year, Sam Houston State ranks as the highest scoring Bearkat squad in the university's 24-year NCAA Division I history. The 2,616 points this season rank as the third highest total overall in school history. The 1968-69 team scored 2,696 points.

THREE KATS NAMED ALL-SOUTHLAND
 Senior guards Corey Allmond and Ashton Mitchell and junior forward Gilberto Clavell all were named All-Southland Conference this season. Allmond and Mitchell were first team selections and Clavell was a second team honoree.
 Clavell was named as Southland Conference men's basketball "Newcomer of the Year." He is one of 10 NCAA Division I men's basketball players from Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas to receive NABC All-District VIII honors.

BOB MARLIN HONORED AS COACH OF YEAR
 Sam Houston's Bob Marlin has been voted as Southland Conference "Coach of the Year" for 2010. Marlin has directed the Kats to the 2010 Southland regular season title and their sixth 20-plus victory season.
 Marlin also is a finalist for two major national awards, the 2010 Skip Prosser Award (which honors recipients who not only achieve success on the basketball court but who display moral integrity off of it as well) and the Hugh Durham Mid-Major Coach of the Year Award. In addition, the Bearkat head coach was named National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) District XXIII "Coach of the Year."

BEARKATS EARN REGIONAL HONORS
 Sam Houston's Gilberto Clavell, Corey Allmond and Ashton Mitchell all were voted to the NABC All-District XXIII honor squad. Clavell was one of only 10 players named to the USBWA All-District VII all-region squad. He was the only Southland Conference player on the team (which includes Division I teams from Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas).

TWO BEARKATS ALL-SOUTHLAND TOURNAMENT
 After leading Sam Houston to its second Southland Conference post-season tournament championship, two Bearkats were selected to the SLC All-Tournament team.
 Senior point guard Ashton Mitchell was named tournament "Most Valuable Player." Junior forward Gilberto Clavell was one of the five players named "All-Tournament."
 In the three tournament victories, Mitchell averaged 17.0 points and 5.3 assists, going 7-for-17 (.412) from 3-point range. Clavell averaged 16.3 points and 4.7 rebounds.

HIGH-SCORING BACKCOURT DUO
 Senior guards Corey Allmond and Ashton Mitchell comprise the highest scoring backcourt duo in the Sam Houston's 23 years at the NCAA Division I level.
 The two players (who are roommates off the court) have combined for 28.6 points per game this season.
 Allmond and Mitchell now both rank among Sam Houston's top 25 all-time leading scorers. Mitchell ranks No. 19 with 1,101 points in four years. Allmond stands No. 25 with 969 points in two years.
 Allmond's 15.6 scoring average is the eighth highest career mark in Sam Houston men's basketball history. The senior guard has produced the two highest single season 3-point field totals in school history with 99 in 2009 and 94 this year.
 Both were first team All-Southland Conference selections and Mitchell was the Southland Tournament MVP.

TWO DIFFERENCE MAKERS FOR 2010 TEAM
 Junior forwards Gilberto Clavell and Josten Crow have been big difference makers for the Bearkats this year.
 Clavell, a transfer from Collin County, is averaging16.9 points and 6.3 boards. He has scored in double figures in 26 of the Bearkats' 32 games including three games with 30 or more points. He has been named Southland "Newcomer of the Year," is one of 10 players named to the USBWA All-District VIII honor squad and was selected All-Southland Tournament.
 Head coach Bob Marlin calls Crow the team's "glue" - the player who hold things together by doing the dirty work. The Houston Westfield product, in his first year as a starter after two seasons as a reserve, is second on the team in minutes played and rebounding.
 Crow ranks No. 1 in the Southland and No. 2 in nationally in assist/turnover ratio. He was the Kats' leading rebounder in the Southland Tournament and scored the winning basket in the semifinal win over Southeastern Louisiana.

PRESTON BROWN EARNS ACADEMIC HONOR
 Preston Brown, the fourth leading scorer and rebounder for the Sam Houston men's basketball team, has been named as a first team selection on the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-America Team 2010 All-District 6 honor squad.
 The team is selected by vote of members of the College Sports Information Directors Association (CoSIDA) in the district which consists of NCAA teams from Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Mississippi, Alabama and Oklahoma.
 The CoSIDA Academic All-America team is the official national academic honor squad recognized by the NCAA. Members of the All-District first team are eligible for selection to this year's CoSIDA Academic All-America national team.
 Brown, a senior kinesiology major from Wichita, Ks., produced a 3.50 overall grade point average through his first three years of college.

THE BEARKAT BENCH
 Sam Houston averages 20.1 bench points per game and depth has been a key factor for the Bearkats.
 Sophomore point guard Drae Murray ranks No. 6 in the Southland in assists.
 Junior guard Lance Pevehouse brings another 3-point shooting threat to the floor. Pevehouse has come up with several game-turning plays this year including a crucial tip-in late in the tournament first round victory over Nicholls and a 3-point basket that sparked a comeback from five points down with three minutes to play in the semifinals vs. Southeastern Louisiana.
 Sophomore post player Antuan Bootle was the team's second-leading rebounder in Southland play before a foot injury sidelined him for the final  seven games of the regular season. Bootle played in all three tournament contests.

WINNING STREAKS
 The UTSA overtime loss ended an 11 game winning streak, Sam Houston's longest streak since the team moved up to the NCAA Division I level in 1987. The 2003 conference championship team rolled up 10 consecutive victories before the string was ended in a road game at Louisiana-Monroe.   The 1986 Bearkats ran off 20 consecutive victories on the way to a berth in the NCAA Division II regionals. The 1973 Sam Houston squad went 28-0 before falling in the second round of the NAIA National Tournament at Kansas City.

BEARKATS POSTED BIG WINS THIS SEASON
 Sam Houston's non-conference victories this year include wins over Auburn, Oral Roberts, Rider and Florida International. The victory over Auburn was the Kats' first ever over a Southeastern Conference opponent. The wins over ORU and Rider earned Sam Houston the Mayan Division championship at the Cancun Challenge in Mexico during Thanksgiving week.

SECOND "WINNINGEST" TEAM IN TEXAS IN 21ST CENTURY
 Since the new century began with the 1999-2000 season, the only NCAA Division I men's basketball program in Texas that has won more games than Sam Houston State has been the Texas Longhorns. UT has won 275 games in the 12 seasons since 2000 while the Bearkats have totaled 215 victories. UTEP, Texas Tech and Texas A&M rank third through fifth in the Texas NCAA Division I men's basketball victory totals.