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Air Indiana Flight 216. The Air Indiana Flight 216 crash occurred on December 13, 1977, at 19:22 CST, when a Douglas DC-3, registration N51071 carrying the University of Evansville basketball team, the Evansville Purple Aces, crashed on takeoff at the Evansville Regional Airport in Evansville, Indiana. The aircraft lost control and crashed ...
Before the 1947 season, Evansville football coach Don Ping was hired as the Purple Aces baseball coach. In his first season with the team, the Aces went 3–4 before improving to 7–4–1 in 1948. In his first season with the team, the Aces went 3–4 before improving to 7–4–1 in 1948.
The Evansville Purple Aces are the intercollegiate sports teams and players of the University of Evansville, located in Evansville, Indiana. The Aces athletic program is a member of the Missouri Valley Conference [2] and competes at the NCAA 's Division I level. [3] Evansville's mascot is Ace Purple, and the school colors are purple, white and ...
“Aces” came to be the nickname for Evansville College athletics teams about a century ago. Early into the 1924-25 men’s basketball season, Evansville beat Louisville 59-39.
It is the home field of the Evansville Purple Aces baseball team of the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC). The stadium was opened in 1999 and named after Charles H. Braun, a businessman who played American football, basketball, and baseball for Evansville Memorial High School, a block away from UE's campus. Braun died in 1998.
The Purple Aces were relying on a true freshman pitcher and a committed coach who believed in them. It entered the Missouri Valley Conference Tournament as the No. 3 seed, a decided underdog to ...
The team has been known as the Aces and/or Purple Aces ever since. Evansville has won five Division II national championships (1959, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1971). On November 12, 2019, the Aces earned one of the biggest victories in their Division I history, upsetting top-ranked Kentucky at Rupp Arena.
Baseball Aces top No. 1 Arizona State in NCAA Tournament (1988) Led by a 6-foot-6, 235-pound right-handed flamethrower from Central High School, UE stunned the nation's top-ranked baseball team ...