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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).
At the end of the 2018–19 school year, LIU merged its two athletic programs—the Division I program of the Brooklyn campus and the NCAA Division II program of its Post campus in Nassau County, New York—into a single Division I program that now competes as the LIU Sharks. [3] The Sharks maintain Brooklyn's Division I and NEC memberships.
LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue basketball just completed an incredible run the 2024 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament national championship game, its first since 1969. Along the way the Boilermakers ...
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.
The 2019–20 LIU Sharks men's basketball team represented Long Island University during the 2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.The Sharks were led by third-year head coach Derek Kellogg, and played their home games at the Steinberg Wellness Center, with some home games at the Barclays Center, as members of the Northeast Conference (NEC).
Rebecca Yarros, author of the bestselling romantasy book “Fourth Wing,” has announced the third book in her “Empyrean” series. “Onyx Storm” will release Jan. 21, 2025, Yarros and her ...