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Oakland University

Oakland University was founded in 1959 and is located in Rochester, MI. Oakland University is the only institution in the state that operates all of its sports in NCAA, the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I-A, the nation's highest level of intercollegiate athletics.

Men’s basketball coach is Greg Kampe entering his twenty second year at the helm of the Oakland University men’s basketball program, there is not much that Greg Kampe has not achieved with the Golden Grizzlies. His name is synonymous with Oakland basketball, entering the 2005-06 seasons only nine other division I coaches have been with their school longer than Kampe. At the beginning of his career he molded Oakland into one of the top teams in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletics Conference before successfully guiding the program in its transition from division II to division I play. After just seven years in division I, Kampe has already posted a pair of 17-win seasons, been named the national coach of the year, and won a regular season Mid-Continent title and last season won the Mid-Con tournament title and the schools first-ever bid to the NCAA tournament.

Beckie Francis is the head coach of women’s basketball team. Beckie Francis rejoined Oakland's staff this past season as the school’s ninth head women’s basketball coach. She continued right where she left off, guiding the Golden Grizzlies to the 2005-06 Mid-Con tournament championship and NCAA tournament berth. The former skipper of the Golden Grizzlies from 1997-98 through the 2001-02 season returned to the helm after a 3 year break in coaching. Francis guided Oakland to a pair of 20-win seasons during her first stint with the program, including her first year as the team’s coach when OU finished the 1997-98 season.

Oakland University mission as a state supported institution of higher education, Oakland University has a three fold mission. It offers instructional programs of high quality that lead to degrees at the baccalaureate, masters and doctoral levels as well as programs in continuing education. It advances knowledge and promotes the arts through research, scholarship and creative activity and it renders significant public service. In all its activities, the university strives to demonstrate educational leadership.

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