The Youngstown State men's basketball recently concluded the 2010-11 season, a record-breaking campaign highlighted by tightly-contested and exciting games and individual accomplishments and improvements.
Below is a list of team highlights and accomplishments from the 2010-11 season.
* The Guins averaged 69.1 points per game in 2010-11. It's the highest season per game average since the 2000-01 team averaged 71.1 points per game.
* YSU scored 2,072 points in 2010-11, marking just the sixth time since 1990-91 that a YSU team has scored at least 2,000 points in a season.
* The Guins set school records with 235 3-pointers made and 706 3-pointers attempted. Six different Penguins made at least 20 3-pointers in 2010-11.
* The Guins tied a single-game record with 14 3-pointers made against Butler on Jan. 9, 2011.
* Guins defeated the 2010 National Runner-Up Butler Bulldogs, 62-60, on Feb. 3, 2011.
* YSU went 3-2 against teams from the Mid-American Conference and went 7-0 at home against non-league opponents.
* In 2010-11, the Penguins played in 15 games that were decided by 10 points or less.
* The Guins scored at least 70 points in 15 games – the most since 2006-07.
* YSU led the Horizon League with 7.8 3-pointers made per game.
* Senior Vytas Sulskis led the team with 13.1 points per game, scoring 392 points. Sulskis finished his career ranking 16th on the YSU all-time scoring list with 1,311 career points.
* Sulskis made 43 3-pointers this season and finished his career ranked second with 169 career 3-pointers made.
* Sulskis also tied the school record for most games played in a career with 120.
* Sophomore Damian Eargle was named to the 2011 Horizon League All-Newcomer Team. Eargle averaged 11.3 points per game and led the Horizon League with 91 blocks and 3.0 blocks per game.
* Eargle also ranked sixth in rebounding at 6.0 per game and seventh in field-goal percentage at .516.
* Freshman Kendrick Perry ranked fourth in the league with 4.1 assists per game and second with a 2.1 assist-to-turnover ratio (122-to-57).
* Sophomore Blake Allen led the Horizon League with an assist-to-turnover ratio of 2.2 (74-to-34).
* Damian Eargle's 91 blocks rank second on the YSU single-season list and he already ranks fourth on the YSU career list.
* Junior Ashen Ward led the team with 50 3-pointers made. He is the first player to make at least 50 3-pointers since Quin Humphrey made 65 in 2006-07. Ward also ranked tied for eighth in the Horizon League with 1.7 3-pointers made per game.
* Kendrick Perry's 122 assists mark the third straight season a YSU player has recorded at least 100 assists in a season. It is also the fifth time in the last six years that a player has accomplished that feat. His 122 assists are the most by a freshman since Lacy Jones' 132 in 1990-91 and are the fourth most a YSU freshman.
* Over the last 12 games, Kendrick Perry averaged 13.3 points, 5.0 assists and 4.1 rebounds per game while shooting 49.2 percent from the field. Over that span, he increased his season points per game average from 6.5 to 9.0.
* Blake Allen averaged 10.1 points per game over the last 17 games of the season. He made 39 3-pointers and dished out 56 assists. In the first 13 games of the year, Allen averaged just 3.1 points per game and made just eight 3-pointers.
* Blake Allen ranked second on the team with 47 3-pointers made.
