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LIU was a national basketball powerhouse in the 1930s and 1940s under Clair Bee, who compiled the highest winning percentage in major college basketball history, and the 1935–36 team was retroactively recognized as the pre-NCAA tournament national champion by the Premo-Porretta Power Poll. [5]
Following Long Island University's founding in 1927, its sports teams wore blue uniforms and became known as the Blue Devils. After the school's uniforms were changed to black in 1935, a Brooklyn Eagle reporter from the Midwest saw the new look as the basketball team dribbled up and down the court and stated that the team looked like the blackbirds from back home; the comment struck home, and ...
The 2024–25 LIU Sharks men's basketball team represents Long Island University in the 2024–25 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.The Sharks, led by third-year head coach Rod Strickland, play their home games at the Steinberg Wellness Center in Brooklyn, New York as members of the Northeast Conference (NEC).
Beenders was one of the first international basketball players in the Basketball Association of America (BAA), which became the National Basketball Association (NBA). Beenders averaged 12.3 points in his rookie season with Providence, which was 13th best in the league that season. [ 3 ]
He attended Long Island and played basketball for head coach Roy Rubin. Standing 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m), [ 3 ] Grant played the forward position. His career at LIU lasted between 1963–64 and 1965–66, and upon his graduation he was the school's all-time leading scorer with 1,403 points as well as its all-time leading rebounder with 975 (both ...
It’s Ole Miss vs Long Island to open play this college basketball season. Follow for live score updates, game highlights from the SJB Pavilion.
Breaking: Tonight’s game between Fairleigh Dickinson and Long Island University at LIU is in a delay because FDU players are stuck in an elevator coming from the locker room to the court.
This category includes coaches for the LIU Sharks, the men's basketball team established when Long Island University merged the athletic programs of its Brooklyn and Post campuses in July 2019. For coaches who were active at LIU Brooklyn before the athletic merger, see Category:LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds men's basketball coaches.