Oakland Basketball: 2024 NCAA Tournament breakdown of the Grizzlies
By Ryan Kay
Get to know Oakland before they play Kentucky in this year's NCAA Tournament.
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Oakland Golden Grizzlies Resume
NET Ranking: 126
KenPom Ranking: 137
ESPN BPI Ranking: 130
Barttorvik Ranking: 137
Quadrant 1 Wins: @ Xavier
Quadrant 1 Losses: @ Ohio State, @ Illinois, Drake (neutral court), @ Michigan State, and @ Dayton
Quadrant 2 Record: 1-0 (Win @ Youngstown State) Quadrant 3 Record: 7-6
Golden Grizzlies Coach
Greg Kampe is Oakland's men's basketball team head coach and this is his 40th season at Oakland. He has nine postseason bids in nine seasons (2009–13, '15–17, 24), four NCAA tournaments (2005, 10, 11, 23), an NIT berth in 2017, eight 20-win seasons (2008–12, '16–17, '21–22, 23–24), and six Summit League championships in 14 seasons as a division one head coach. He also led the Golden Grizzlies to two Horizon League regular season titles in (2017 and 2024) and a Horizon League Tournament championship this year. He is personally friends with Kentucky's head coach John Calipari.
Greg @KampeOU and John Calipari are close friends. This week via text they were joking about playing each other. Kampe said playing against a friend is sad.
— Jeanna Trotman (@JeannaTrotmanTV) March 18, 2024
"They don't want me to get beat and I don't want them to get beat. I just want to play against someone I don't know!" pic.twitter.com/bkiMQfTNCE
Oakland's Starting Five and Sixth Man (For the majority of the season)
Center: Chris Conway
Power Forward: Trey Townsend
Small Forward: Blake Lampman (plays multiple positions)
Shooting Guard: Rocket Watts
Point Guard: DQ Cole
Sixth Man: Jack Gohlke
Oakland is a school located in Rochester, Michigan which is a suburb of Detroit. The Golden Grizzlies are in the Horizon League which is best known for when Butler was a member and went to back-to-back national championship games in 2010 and 2011.
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The Golden Grizzlies have been pretty consistent before this season which has been highlighted by a road win at Oklahoma State and a Gulf Coast Showcase tournament title in in 2021. However, this season was their first outright regular season Horizon League title and conference tournament championship.