University of Northern Colorado Athletics
2013-14 Men's Basketball Roster
Roster
Tate Unruh
- Height:
- 6-4
- Weight:
- 180
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Branson, Mo.
HONORS & AWARDS
2013-14 Big Sky All-Academic: April 23, 2014
2013-14 College Sports Madness Big Sky All-Conference Fourth Team: March 12, 2014
2013-14 Big Sky Conference All-Conference Second Team: March 10, 2014
2013-14 Big Sky Conference Co-Player of the Week: Dec. 17, 2013
2012-13 Big Sky Conference All-Conference Second Team: March 11, 2013
2012-13 Big Sky Conference Player of the Week: Jan. 21, 2013
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2013-14:
Season stats
Started 30 of 32 games played in while averaging 30.6 minutes per game ... Named to two Big Sky All-Conference teams and was named Big Sky Player of the Week once, coming off a season-high 24 point, 10 rebound outing at home vs. UC Riverside on Dec. 16, 2013 ... Scored in double-figures 21 times, led the team in scoring nine times and put up at least 20 points in seven games ... Hit a career-high six 3-pointers in three games ... Scored his 1,000th point as a Bear on Jan. 30, 2014 at Portland State ... Finished his career ranked second on UNC's all-time 3-point list with 241 and third in 3-point attempts with 559.
2012-13:
Season stats
Unruh started all 31 games for the Bears during his redshirt junior campaign ... Named to the Big Sky All-Conference Second Team ... He tied for the team lead with 13.5 points per game, a number that was good for a tie for 10th in the Big Sky ... He also averaged a career-high 4.3 rebounds per contest, grabbing almost 50 more rebounds than he did during his redshirt sophomore campaign ... Was one of the premier three-point marksmen in the country, finishing 21st in the nation in three-point percentage (.428) and 23rd in 3-pointers per game (2.97) ... He finished fifth in the conference in three-point percentage and second in 3-pointers per game ... Broke Northern Colorado's Division I single-season record for 3-pointers in a season; his 92 three-point buckets broke Devon Beitzel's previous record of 87, set during the 2010-11 season ... More than 63 percent of his made field goals were 3-pointers ... Moved into sixth in the school's all-time made 3-pointers list with 165 career threes ... Moved into ninth in the all-time three-point attempts list with 376 career attempts ... Tied his career high by hitting five 3-pointers eight times during the season, including a stretch of four straight games in the middle of the year (Jan. 10-Jan. 19) ... Led the team in scoring nine times ... Scored 20-plus points seven times ... Poured in a season-high 23 points twice on the year, once against Montana State and once against Portland State ... Notched his first career double-double in a late-December road game vs. North Dakota by scoring 13 points and grabbing 10 rebounds ... Averaged 14.7 points per game during conference play, a number that was good for second on the team and ninth in the Big Sky ... Shot better than 45 percent from three-point land in Big Sky competition ... Shot almost 91 percent from the free throw line ... Scored at least 20 points in four of his last six games ... Double-digit field goal attempts in last nine games ... Scored 21 points and grabbed seven rebounds in a win over Montana State in the Big Sky Tournament quarterfinals.
2011-12:
Season stats
Led the Bears and ranked 15th in the Big Sky with 11.3 ppg…Finished second in the Big Sky shooting .462 from beyond the arc…Saw action in 27 games with 26 starts to go with a team-second 28.4 minutes per game…Connected on a blazing .974 from the free throw line…Also pulled in 3.2 rebounds per game and logged a team-third 25 steals…Placed fifth in the conference with 60 made three-point baskets…Scored a season-high 25 points on 10-18 shooting to go with 5-8 from deep at Marquette on Dec. 17…Tallied double-digit scoring in 17 games…Dished out three assists on five occasions.
2010-11:
Season stats
After redshirting as a true-freshman, entered the 2010-11 season with high hopes as one of the best shooters to ever sign on with Northern Colorado Basketball ... Offseason knee surgery that never quite healed properly, though, sidelined him for much of the first half of the season ... Played in 21 games after Dec. 29 and and started two (vs. Eastern Washington and vs. Portland State) ... Averaged 10.6 minutes per game ... Shot 44.7 percent from the field, 41.9 from three point and 85.7 from the free throw line ... That three-point shooting percentage would have ranked him sixth in the Big Sky Conference had he taken enough shots to qualify in the category ... Averaged 2.9 points per game overall but 4.4 points per in the Bears' final 10 games of the year ... Averaged 3.1 points per game in 16 contests against Big Sky Conference opponents ... Shot a sizzling 44 percent from three (12-27) in Big Sky games ... Scored a career-high 13 points vs. Portland State at home on Feb. 5 ... Averaged 1.5 rebounds per game and grabbed a career-high five rebounds twice ... 1.4 assist-to-turnover ratio would have ranked him tied for fifth in the Big Sky Conference had he played enough games to qualify ... Recorded a career-high four assists in a big 86-77 road victory at Montana State on Feb. 10 ...
2009-10: Spent the year as a redshirt to gain strength.
High School: A 2009 McDonald's All-American nominee for head coach Randy Bishop's Pirates ... Left Branson as one of the very best to ever play high school basketball in the state of Missouri ... Finished high school in 2009 as the second-best career free-throw shooter in state history (87.3 percent) as well as the fourth-best three-point shooter (46 percent his senior year) ... Finished Pirates career as record-holder in single-game three-pointers (nine), three-pointers in a season (97), three-pointers in a career (236) and free-throw percentage in a season (91 percent) ... Was All-Central Ozark Conference first-team selection in 2008 and 2009 ... Member of 2009 All-Ozarks Team ... Selected to all-district team in 2008 ... Member of National Honor Society ... Was a student-council representative ... Four-time member of Branson High's Honor Roll ... Was an academic all-conference selection.
Personal: Last name pronounced "UN-roo" ... Born August 24, 1990, in Bartlesville, Okla. ... Parents are Kyle and Amy Unruh ... Has five siblings: Abby, Darby, Thatch, Audra and Carly ... Also recruited by Toledo, Washburn and College of the Ozarks ... Attaining his Master's Degree in Coaching.
