Brian Bennett

Height:
6-9
Weight:
261
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Romeoville, IL
High School:
Plainfield East HS

2014-15 (Junior)
Named to All-Big West Conference second team after finishing 64th among NCAA Division I players with a 50.7 (146-for-288) percent field goal mark and seventh among Big West players with 6.3 rebounds per game … also led Cal Poly with 11.5 points and 30.3 minutes played per game … scored career high 27 points at UC Davis (Jan. 31) … added 20 points at Hawai’i (Jan. 7) and versus UC Santa Barbara (March 12), 19 versus Northeastern (Dec. 17) and 16 at California (Nov. 26) … recorded second collegiate double-double and first since freshman season with 10 points and 10 rebounds versus UC?Santa Barbara … added third career double-double with 17 points and 12 rebounds versus UC?Irvine (Feb. 26) … scored in double digits 17 times … grabbed career high 14 rebounds at CSUN (Jan. 17) and added nine versus Northeastern (Dec. 17) and at UC?Davis?(Jan. 31) … appeared in all 29 games with career high 28 starts.

2013-14 (Sophomore)
Appeared in all 34 games with 15 starts and averaged 18.5 minutes per contest … finished second in Cal Poly’s lineup with a 46.6 (89-for-191) percent field goal mark, third with a 70.7 (29-for-41) percent free throw mark and fourth with 6.1 points per game … scored season high 16 points against North Dakota (Nov. 29), added 12 in Big West Tournament semifinal win against UC Irvine (March 14) and 11 at No. 14 Oregon (Dec. 1) … scored in double figures six times … grabbed season high seven rebounds at Oregon and versus UC Davis (Jan. 30).

2012-13 (Freshman)
Finished sixth among Big West players and 63rd among NCAA Division I players with a 52.4 (133-for-254) percent field goal mark … one of two Mustangs to start all 32 games, averaging 23.9 minutes per contest … finished second among Mustangs with 4.6 rebounds per game and third with 9.3 points per game … scored season high 23 points versus Loyola Marymount (Feb. 23) … added 17 points in victories against Hawai’i (Jan. 24) and Cal State Northridge (Jan. 26) … scored 16 points during 70-68 victory at No. 11 UCLA (Nov. 25) … during collegiate debut at TCU (Nov. 9), recorded a 10-point, 11-rebound double-double … posted 13 double-digit scoring games … grabbed 10 boards versus Pacific (Feb. 7).

Plainfield East HS (Plainfield, Ill.)
Averaged 15.6 points, 6.9 rebounds and 0.8 blocks per game in addition to shooting 59.7 percent from the floor and 72.0 percent from the free throw line during 2011-12 senior season … earned All-Southwest Prairie Conference praise as a senior and named to Chicago Sun-Times All-Area and ESPN Chicago All-Area teams … helped Bengals to 27-2 overall mark, a 14-0 Southwest Prairie Conference title-winning record and the Class 4A East Aurora Sectional semifinals as a senior … averaged 9.0 points and 5.1 rebounds per game as a junior while shooting 55.5 percent from the floor and 71.4 percent from the free throw line … also helped program to first victory in the Illinois State Tournament during 2010-11 junior season.

Personal
Son of Carol and Walter Bennett … majoring in business administration … career ambition is to become a nutritionist in order to “impact other’s lives” … biggest thrill at Cal Poly is “seeing all of the people in the stands at every home game and the atmosphere they create” … named to honor roll during each semester at Plainfield East HS … Brian Lee Bennett was born on June 8, 1994 in Downers Grove, Ill.