Anthony Bruner was a basketball standout for Southeastern Oklahoma State from 1994-1996 where he earned All-American honors and wrote his name in the men’s basketball record book.
 
The Norman, Okla., native played for head coach Tony Robinson and helped the Savages to 38 wins over two seasons, culminating in a trip to the NAIA National Tournament in 1996.
 
Bruner was an All-American for Southeastern in 1996 and earned the honor at both the junior college and high school levels before that.
 
Two of his three All-America awards came when he played for Robinson, the first one at Norman High School and the last one at Southeastern.
 
He played two years at Bacone Junior College before transferring to Southeastern as a junior and was the leading scorer that year with 427 points.
 
As a senior, he turned in the school’s sixth-best single season scoring mark with 788 points, and at one point led the nation in scoring with 27.0 points per game.
 
During that senior season he connected on 104 three-pointers and shot 51 percent from behind the arc en route to earning All-American honors and leading the Savages to the national tournament.  Both 3-point attempts taken and made were single-season records and he was tied for fourth with 61 steals in his junior year and finished fourth in career steals with 115.
 
He earned All-Oklahoma Intercollegiate Conference honors both seasons as he posted 1,215 points for his career, which is seventh best in school history. Bruner turned in  thirty 20-point performances, and over his career had six games where he scored 30-or-more points.  His career best 37 points was against Texas Wesleyan on Dec. 5, 1995.
 
He was named Southeastern’s Male Athlete of the Year for 1995-96.
 
Bruner, through his efforts on the court, excelled to a level that brings great honor to Southeastern Oklahoma State University.  The University honored him with membership in the Southeastern Oklahoma State Athletics Hall of Fame on August 23, 2014.