GROVE CITY — Bombs away.

It’s more than just OK for Grove City College men’s basketball players to put up 3-point shots. Such shots are desired. They’re sought after.

They’re needed.

The Wolverines just completed an 11-15 season in which they sank a program-record 240 treys. Slippery Rock High School graduate Brian Giesler, a junior forward, sank an individual season record 76 3-pointers.

The previous mark was 75, set by Shawn Carr during the 2007-08 season.

“I glanced at the record once ... It was way out there,” Giesler said. “I never thought I’d ever get enough shots to even approach it.”

Giesler took 194 shots from beyond the arc this season, sinking 39 percent of them.

“It’s not like we set out to get him that record or pushed him toward it,” Grove City coach Steve Lamie said. “That is not an artificial record at all.

“Brian set that mark while working within the framework of our offense. He’s an unselfish player. All of our guys are. We work for the open look and we take it.”

The Wolverines sank 24 3’s in their final two games to shatter the previous team record for treys, which was 216 set in 2006-07.

Giesler was far from alone in firing up shots from long range. Six of his teammates sank 14 or more treys this year and Grove City had 14 players nail 3-pointers. Seneca Valley graduate Christian Durbin contributed four treys to the cause.

Even Luke Tincha, a freshman center from Butler, sank a pair of 3-pointers.

“Recruiting big, dominant inside players has become difficult for us,” Lamie said. “We switched to this offense partially for that reason. This year, we were young and inexperienced in the post, so we really emphasized it.

“It’s not about just standing out there jacking up shots. It’s about finding who’s open and that could be anybody. On this team, you have to be able to shoot the 3 to get on the floor.”

Tincha and sophomores Erik Carlstrom and Tyler Patterson were the Wolverines’ post players this year. Overall, the team loses only one senior — Evan Schell, who sank seven treys.

Lamie said he hopes to get more production inside next season.

“And I think we will,” he said. “Toward the end of the year, defenses were extending on us and we have to keep them honest. If the inside stuff is there, we’ll take it.

“But we’re not going to change who we are.”

Giesler sees no reason why they should.

“I think we can break the (team) record again next year,” he said. “We’ve grown comfortable running this offense and we’ve learned how to execute it. We’ve got a bunch of guys who can put it up.

“It’s fun playing this way. They can’t come out and guard everybody.”

Giesler has 131 treys in his collegiate career. The GCC career mark is 205 — set by Carr — and Giesler would need 75 treys to break it next year.

“He needs to have another year just like this one,” Grove City sports information director Ryan Briggs said. “But it could happen.”

Giesler sank a number of treys in high school, but nothing like this.

“I’m 6-foot-3 and was one of the biggest guys on the team,” he recalled of his years with the Rockets. “I had to do a lot of things inside the paint for the good of the team.

“My role is different now. Once we get into a groove shooting the ball, it’s hard to stop us ... We just have so many options.”