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2016-2017 Park University pirates men's basketball finished 21-8 and reached the NAIA men's D1 basketball championship led by head coach Jason Kline and assistant coach Jason Stubblefeild. Both coaches have been coaching at Park University for 12 years. This was the seventh time in school history that the Park Pirate's made it to the NAIA Men's D1 National Basketball Championship. (1991-97-2007-10-11-16-17) . Though they lost in a tightly contested first round game to Georgetown College with the final score being 81-72. The Park Pirates also participated in the MNU Tip-Off Classic in which they won against Grand View University 65-61. Subsequently losing to Mid America Nazarene University 72-69.

Despite a strong regular season in 2015-2016. The Park Pirates managed to improved their record from the previous year which was 20-10. Park had an average score of 78.1 points a game with a field goal percentage of 44.3 percent on the season. Xavielle Brown was named AMC player of the year for the second consecutive season. After averaging nearly 21 points per game despite missing some of the early season. Brown passed the career 2,000 point mark making him the third all time scorer at Park University. Brown led the team in rebounds with 155 in 22 games. BJ Watson of the Park Pirates was also selected for First Team All Conference as well. Watson led the pirates in made three pointers with 75 while racking up 54 steals. Ikem Eriobuna was an honorable mention having 52 blocked shots on the season while averaging 4.9 rebounds and 8.5 points per game.