Missouri State

KEVIN AULT
Basketball 1996-2000
Inducted 2012

Kevin Ault was a rare four-year Bears' basketball starting guard, playing three years for coach Steve Alford and competing as a senior for coach Barry Hinson. Ault's four teams from 1996 to 2000 had a combined 85-47 record and reached the championship game of the Missouri Valley Conference tournament three times in four years. The Bears were 24-9 when Ault was a freshman and won 22 and 23 games his final two seasons. A native of Warsaw, Ind., he helped the Bears into the National Invitation Tournament in 1997 and 2000 and Missouri State made its deepest advance ever into the NCAA tourney in 1999 when the Bears upset Wisconsin and Tennessee to advance to the regional semifinals where they lost to top-ranked and top-seeded Duke. Ault was the Bears' CBS-TV player of the game in the win over Wisconsin. That same 1998-99 Bears club made MSU the first and only school ever to defeat the state's other four Division I teams in the same season with wins over Missouri, UMKC, Saint Louis and SEMO. Ault led the Bears in steals four times and free throw shooting twice and led the Valley in free throw accuracy in 1998. He's the Bears' all-time career record holder in games played (132) and steals (243) and is 10th in career points (1,508), second in winning games (85), third in three-point field goals (254), and third in free throw percentage (.843). He averaged 14.8 in scoring as a sophomore with figures of 11.7 his junior year and 10.6 as a senior, and finished with 471 career rebounds and 323 assists. Ault gained MVC all-league honors as a sophomore, was on the MVC tournament all-tourney team in 2000, and shared the MSU Coors Player of the Year Award in 1998 and 2000. He now lives in his native Indiana and works in business development for a commercial flooring company specializing in gymnasium floors and athletic playing surfaces.