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Biggest loss?

Former FAU president Mary Jane Saunders and current basketball coach Mike Jarvis enjoy a baseball game in 2011. (OwlAccess.com file photo)

Analysis: FAU's athletic programs have struggled to win this season, but the loss of President Mary Jane Saunders following her resignation on Tuesday may be the biggest of all. Read more

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BASKETBALL: Recruiting

Detroit drive
Updated: 5:55 p.m. to include Bishop's comments: Clark Bishop has committed to FAU, giving the Owls their second player from Detroit in this recruiting class. Read more

> Recruiting: FAU's 2013 recruiting list

BASKETBALL: Two sign with FAU

Two in, two out
Two high school point guards sign with FAU. Two current FAU basketball players planning to transfer. Read more

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SCORING

Greg Gantt

658 points (FAU record)

21.2 ppg (11th in nation)

REBOUNDS

Jordan McCoy

191 rebounds

6.0 rpg

 

ASSISTS

Stafan Moody*

63 assists

2.25 apg

STEALS

Greg Gantt

25 steals

.81 spg

 * - Returning player

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The Florida Atlantic University Owls basketball team took the court for its inaugural season in 1988. FAU basketball made the jump to Division I for the 1994-95 season. The following year they gained a conference affiliation, joining the Atlantic Sun, which at that time was known as the Trans American Athletic Conference.

FAU basketball competed in the A-Sun for 11 seasons. Florida Atlantic Owls basketball posted its best overall season in 2001-02. That year the Owls produced 19-2 record and earned their only NCAA tournament bid.

In 2006, Florida Atlantic Owls basketball made the jump to the Sun Belt Conference, where it still competes today. The 2009-10 season will mark the fourth season with FAU competing as a Sun Belt team – the second under the helm of head coach Mike Jarvis. FAU’s Sun Belt record was above the .500 mark in its first season in the conference, but the Owls haven’t finished that high in conference play since.

Playing in the newly refurbished FAU Arena, nicknamed "The Burrow," the OWls hope to rise the level of traditional FAU’s established Sun Belt foes Western Kentucky, Middle Tennessee State and Troy. A heralded 2009 recruiting class could be just the impetus needed to propel the Owls to the level of the Sun Belt elite.