- Oakland completes 12th year of Division I competition
- OU finished runner-up in The Summit League Commissioner's Cup standings with 97.0 points, just a half-point shy of South Dakota State
- The Golden Grizzlies captured a league-high five Summit League championships (men's basketball, women's cross country, women's soccer, men's swimming and diving and women's swimming and diving)
- The Grizzlies tallied the most Academic All-Summit League selections for the sixth consecutive year, placing 215 on the fall, winter and spring squads in 2010-11
- Women's Cross Country won their first-ever league championship
- Men's Basketball, Women's Basketball and Women's Cross Country all recorded perfect scores of 1,000 in the NCAA Academic Progress Report (APR) with Oakland boasting eight squads that have a multiyear APR rank higher than the national average
- Both the men's and women's swimming and diving programs captured their 12th consecutive Summit League titles
- Oakland captured The Summit League Food Fight title for the second time in three years, raising over 11,000 pounds of food that was donated to Lighthouse of Oakland County
- OU finished second in the NIKE Campus Roar Campaign, a national initiative to find the best school slogan using the phrase, "OH YEAH, OU!"
- After capturing consecutive Summit League regular season and tournament titles, the men's basketball team finished with its best-ever final ranking in the CollegeInsider.com Mid-Major Poll at No. 8
- Men's Basketball matched its league record 17-1 mark and .944 league winning percentage
- Keith Benson became the first-ever men's basketball player to be selected in the NBA Draft, going to the Atlanta Hawks with the 48th pick
- Benson garnered Associated Press All-America honors for the second straight season, becoming the first OU player to accomplish that feat and is the only Summit League player to surpass 1,500 points, 1,000 rebounds and 300 blocked shots
- Benson became the first-ever Summit League player to earn Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year honors in the same season
- Swimmers Vanessza Balogh, Sandra Czerska, Amr el Sayed, Nick Evans, Johanna Gustafsson, Tobias Hansen and Marcin Unold earned Mid-Major All-American Honorable Mention honors
- Balogh and Unold captured Summit League Swimmers of the Year awards, while Chelsea Oates and Jordan Zendejas were named Divers of the Year
- Women's Basketball advanced to its seventh Summit League tournament championship game
- Women's Soccer posted an unbeaten record (8-0-1) in league play to capture its eighth Summit League regular-season title and went undefeated for the fourth time in program history
- Pete Hovland (women's swimming and diving), Greg Kampe (men's basketball), Nick O'Shea (women's soccer) and Paul Rice (women's cross country) were all named Summit League Coach of the Year
- Men's Soccer captured its third league tournament title and advanced to its fifth NCAA Division I tournament
- The Golden Grizzlies hosted the NCAA Great Lakes Cross Country Regional Championships for the first time in program history at Katke-Cousins Golf Course
- OU also hosted The Summit League Men's Soccer Championship
- Women's Tennis boasted their highest-ever finish in The Summit League with a tie for fourth-place standing, just missing qualifying for their first-ever tournament championship