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2021-22 Men's Basketball Roster

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  • Forward
    Position
  • Senior
    Class
  • Moore, Okla.
    Hometown
  • 6'7
    Height
  • 210
    Weight
  • Southmoore HS
    High School
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Justin Bean 2021-22 head shot
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Justin Bean
Forward
Position
Senior
Class
Moore, Okla.
Hometown

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Biography

RECORDS: Career games with 10+ rebounds (57, 1st)... Career rebounds (1,027; 2nd)... Career double-doubles (46, 2nd)... Career steals (161, 5th)... Career games played (126, t-8th)... Career scoring (1,445; 17th)... Single-season double-doubles (20, 2nd, 2022)... Single-season double-doubles (16, t-7th, 2021)... Single-season rebounds (356, 5th, 2021)... Single-season minutes played (1,203; 5th, 2022)... Single-season 3-point field goal percentage (.469, t-6th, 2022)... Single-season rebounds (338, 9th, 2022)... Single-season steals (53, t-9th, 2022)... Single-season points (592, 19th, 2022).

HONORS: Third-team Academic All-American (2022)... Academic all-Mountain West (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)... Mountain West Scholar-Athlete (2019, 2020)... Jamaica Classic MVP (2019)... Myrtle Bean Invitational MVP (2021)... Whitesides Scholar-Athlete (2019, 2020, 2022)... Mountain West all-tournament team (2021)... Second-team all-Mountain West (2021, 2022)... Mountain West All-Defensive Team (2020, 2022)... USBWA All-District VIII (2022).

2021-22 SEASON (SR): Named second-team all-Mountain West and as a member of the MW all-defensive team... One of only two players to appear and start in each of Utah State's 34 games during the year... Led Utah State in minutes played (35.4), field goals made (227), field goals attempted (424), free throws made (92), total points (592), points per game (17.4), total rebounds (252), rebounds per game (9.9) and steals (53)... Scored in double figures in 31 games with 20 or more points in nine games and 30 or more three times... Scored a career-high 33 points against Penn during the 2021 Myrtle Beach Invitational... Named the 2021 Myrtle Beach Invitational after averaging 24.7 points, 14.3 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 1.7 steals per game and shooting 69.0 percent (29-of-42) from the floor, 62.5 percent (5-of-8) from behind the 3-point line and 91.7 percent (11-of-12) at the free throw line... For the season, shot 53.5 percent (227-of-424) from the floor, 46.9 percent (46-of-98) from behind the 3-point line and 80.0 percent (92-of-115) at the free throw line... Recorded 20 double-doubles during the season, the second-most in a single season in school history... Logged 10 or more rebounds in 21 games, including a season-high 19 against Oklahoma in the championship game of the 2021 Myrtle Beach Invitational... Totaled 338 rebounds on the year, averaging 9.9 per contest... Led the Aggies with 53 steals, recording multiple thefts in 18 games during the year... Finished fourth on the team with 88 assists, tallying five or more in four games during the year... Second on the team with 16 blocks.

2020-21 SEASON (JR): Named second-team all-Mountain West and to the MW all-tournament team... Appeared and started in every game during the year, averaging 27.1 minutes per game in 29 contests... Scored in double figures 20 times during the season, turning in a season-high 21 in two games during the year... Finished second on the team with 330 total points, averaging 11.4 points per game... Shot 51.8 percent (131-of-253) from the floor, 23.8 percent (10-of-42) from behind the 3-point line and 82.9 percent (58-of-70) at the free throw line... Pulled down 10 or more rebounds in 11 games and five or more rebounds in all but five games during the year, logging a season-high 13 in three games... Finished second on the team with 224 total rebounds, averaging 7.7 per contest... Recorded nine double-doubles during the year... Led the Aggies with 38 steals during the year, averaging 1.3 per game... Finished fifth on the team with 54 total assists... Also finished the year with nine blocks... Named academic all-Mountain West.

2019-20 SEASON (SO): Named third-team all-Mountain West and to the MW all-defensive team... Named MVP of the Jamaica Classic after averaging a double-double of 14.0 points and 13.0 rebounds per game against LSU and North Texas... Ranked 17th in the nation with 16 double-doubles during the year, the most by an Aggie since the 1976-77 season... Averaged 11.9 points and 10.5 rebounds per game to become the first Aggie to average a double-double since Mike Santos in 1976-77... Scored in double figures in 21 times, including a season-high 24 points at St. Mary's (11/29)... Shot 51.8 percent (155-of-299) from the floor, 27.6 percent (8-of-29) from behind the 3-point line and 80.6 percent (87-of-108) at the free throw line... Pulled down five or more rebounds in all but two games and double-digit rebounds in 24 games... Logged a season-high 16 rebounds against Boise State (2/8)... Totaled 356 rebounds during the year, marking the fifth-highest single-season total in school history... Led the Aggies with 51 steals on the year, averaging 1.5 per game to rank second in the Mountain West... Led the conference with 1.9 steals per game during MW play... Also averaged 2.1 assists and 0.7 blocks per game... One of only two Aggies to appear and start in every game during the season... Named a Joe E. & Elma Whitesides Scholar Athlete... Named a Mountain West Scholar Athlete and earned academic all-Mountain West.

2018-19 SEASON (RS-FR):  Appeared in 29 games during the year, averaging 12.1 minutes per contest... Scored in double figures four times, including a career-high 14 points against New Mexico in quarterfinals of the Mountain West Tournament (3/14)... Also logged his first career double-double against the Lobos after pulling down a career-high 15 rebounds... Recorded five or more rebounds 10 times during the season, totaling 109 rebounds on the year and averaging 3.8 per game (10th-most by a freshman in USU history)... Totaled 118 points during the year, averaging 4.1 points per game... Shot 51.2 percent (44-of-86) from the floor, 16.7 percent (1-of-6) from behind the 3-point line and 76.3 percent (29-of-38) at the free throw line... Was 5-of-6 from the free throw line with less than a minute on the clock... Totaled 22 assists on the year, including a career-high three helpers against Fresno State (3/15) and UNLV (2/2)... Recorded 19 steals, including a career-high three against New Mexico (2/20) and at San José State (1/16)... Logged eight blocks during the year, including a career-high two against New Mexico (2/20) and Air Force (1/5)... Named a Joe E. & Elma Whitesides Scholar Athlete.. Named a Mountain West Scholar Athlete and earned academic all-Mountain West.

2017-18 SEASON (FR):  Spent his first season at Utah State as a redshirt.

HIGH SCHOOL:  Prepped at Southmoore High School in Moore, Okla… Earned first-team all-conference honors as a junior when he was the third-leading scorer in the state of Oklahoma… Led Southmoore HS in both scoring and rebounding as a junior, averaging close to 22 points and 11 rebounds per game… Named to several all-tournament teams, including the Bartlesville all-tournament team and John Nobles all-tournament team… Averaged 16 points and nine rebounds per game as a senior, following ACL reconstruction six months before the season opener... Named all-conference and to the Oklahoma Basketball Coaches Association first team during his final year.

PERSONAL:  One of five children of Gordon and Shauna Bean… Father, Gordon, played collegiate basketball at Idaho State, helping the Bengals to an NCAA Tournament appearance in 1987… Graduated among the top 10 percent of his class… Earned the Masonic Award for academics… Served a two-year LDS Church Mission in Reno, Nev. (2015-17)... Married his wife, Claire, in August, 2021... Majoring in exercise science.

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