NAU Men's Basketball - Recruit to Shoot

NORTHERN ARIZONA BASKETBALL
“RECRUIT TO SHOOT"
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The following shows where Lumberjack Basketball finished the season ranked in the following categories among Division I Universities.

3-Point shooting PCT. Field Goal PCT. Free Throw PCT

1996-97 1st - 41.9% 2nd - 51.6% 29th - 72.3%

1997-98 1st - 43.0% 2nd - 51.8% 20th - 73.5%

1998-99 1st -44.5% 1st - 52.3% 8th - 75.4%

1999-00 12th - 39.4% 22nd - 47.8% 6th - 75.4%

2000-01 5th - 41.5% 33rd - 47.4% 71.7%

2001-02 29.5% 45.1% 68.5%

2002-03 23rd - 38.7% 45.8% 63.9%

2003-04 16th - 39.1% 45.5% 72.0%

2004-05 36th - 38.0% 45.3% 71.2%

2005-06 9th - 39.8% 8th - 48.8% 14th - 75.4%

2006-07 1st - 42.6% 7th - 49.4% 26th - 74.2%

2007-08 27th - 39.0% 14th - 48.3% 91st - 71.5%

2008-09 35.4% 13th - 48.1% 61.7%

DID YOU KNOW...

* NAU has ranked among the Top 15 teams in the nation in each of the last three seasons, one of four schools in the country to accomplish the feat (Florida, Kansas, North Carolina) and joins Florida as the only two schools in the nation to rank among the Top 15 in each of the last four seasons.

* NAU has ranked among the nation’s top three-point shooting teams in 11 of the last 13 seasons, including four seasons as the top team in the country, six among the top 10 and nine among the top 25 in Division I.

* NAU led Division I in three-point field goal percentage as a team at 42.6 percent in 2006-07. It is the fourth time in school history that the Lumberjacks have led the nation in three-point field goal percentage.

* NAU was the only team in the nation to rank among the NCAA Division Top 15 in field-goal percentage (8th), three-point field goal percentage (9th) and free throw percentage (14th) in 2005-06.

* The 1998-99 team is the only team in NCAA history to lead the nation in field goal percentage and three-point percentage in the same year.