The 1965-66 men’s basketball team, coached by Ken Mast, posted the best winning percentage in modern Bluffton history, going 17-6 and winning the Mid-Ohio League title. The Beavers’ 9-1 mark in the MOL represented the only league title won by a Bluffton men’s basketball team in the previous 50 years.

The team holds school season records for most wins (10) and best winning percentage (.833) in Founders Hall, most rebounds (1,317), highest rebound average (57.3), highest rebound margin (9.4), and highest averages for free throws made (20.2) and attempted (28.7). Bluffton put together two six-game winning streaks and scored 100 or more points three times.

Team members Lynn Martin, Jim Sommer and Alex Clark were first-team All-MOL. Martin was also first-team all-district, while Clark received second-team all-district honors.

Martin and Sommer, along with teammate Mark Froning, are among the top 10 Bluffton career scorers and in the Athletics Hall of Fame. Sommer and Clark are ranked first and fourth, respectively, in career rebounding.