2010-11 Season
Scored double-figures in five-straight games to end the season -- the longest string of double-digit games in his career...Slowed by a mid-season ankle injury that caused him to miss two games...In a span of 10 games from Jan. 9 to Feb. 16, he scored a total of nine points...In the final five games, he scored 71 points...Named to the Chicago Invitational Challenge All-Tournament team...Recorded his first career double-double with 24 points and 10 rebounds at Indiana State on Feb. 16...Averaged 12.1 points per game during a nine-game overseas trip to China in May, 2011, with Reach USA.
2009-10 Season
Averaged 10.6 points and shot .500 from the field and .405 from 3-point in the final 13 games of the season...Ranked 12th in 3-point percentage in the MVC (.374)...Scored double figures in 13 games.
2008-09 Season
* MVC All-Bench Team
* MVC Newcomer of the Week (Feb. 9)
Started the last nine games of the season and averaged 9.8 points during that span, including a career-high 28 points at Missouri State...Bocot replaced the injured Bryan Mullins in the lineup and made his first-career start against Illinois State on Feb. 4.
2007-08 Season
Sat out to focus on academics.
High School
Named Illinois Basketball Coaches Association 3rd Team All-State his senior year...Averaged 20.0 ppg, 3.2 apg, 2.3 spg and was named the Bloomington Pantagraph Player of the Year... Helped the Purple Raiders reach the Class AA super-sectional as a junior... Played for the 2007 Illinois Basketball Coaches Association all-star team...Also ran track, competing in the long jump and as a member of relay teams.
Dawg Bites
Earned a fifth year of eligibility by completing 80 percent of his degree requirements by the end of his fourth year at SIU...Born in Harvey-Chicago on Sept. 17, 1988...One of four left-handed players on the team (Kendal Brown-Surles, Mamadou Seck and Dantiel Daniels are the others)...Says he bats and bowls right-handed...Growing up, he spent many of his summers at the YMCA competing in football, baseball, soccer and gymnastics...Enjoys fishing with his dad...Son of Heidi and Lee Bocot...Mother works as a technical analyst at State Farm Insurance.
