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Scot Patterson helped lead FPU men's basketball to its first ever conference title in 1990. The next year, as a senior, he averaged 19.7 points per game to earn All-GSAC and All-American honors. His 114 three-pointers that year still stands as the school's single-season record.
The 6'2" guard from Sonora, California, came in as a freshman in 1987 and played sparingly making 13 appearances off the bench for the Sunbirds while also playing on the junior varsity team. As a sophomore he continued to play on the JV team, but would play in 26 games off the bench for the varsity squad. That year he showed some of his incredible potential with a 33-point game in a JV win over Fresno City.
By his junior year he was starting for the Sunbirds and opened some eyes by helping take a team that had been picked in the preseason to finish second-to-last in the GSAC, to a 21-win season and a share of its first conference title. He averaged 11.2 points, 4.4 rebounds and 3.6 assists per game while leading the Sunbirds in free-throw (80.6%) and three-point percentage (43.4%).
As a senior he blossomed into the best player in the conference, while continuing to lead the resurgence of FPU men's basketball as the Sunbirds posted another winning season. He finished the year with NAIA All-American and All-GSAC honors and his 19.7 points per game average that season ranks him third all time at FPU. He was deadly from behind the three-point line, shattering the school record for threes in a season by sinking nearly four per game to finish the year with 114.
His 612 points scored that season ranks second all-time and his 69 steals rank fifth. On November 24, 1990, he tied an FPU record with nine three-pointers in a game against Cal State Los Angeles. He finished his Sunbird career with 184 three-pointers (3rd all-time), 129 steals (5th all-time) and a 40.5% three-point percentage (9th all-time).
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