The school men’s basketball team is part of the Atlantic Sun Conference in the NCAA Division I and the team is known as the Bruins.
The team’s most known rivalries are with Lipscomb University in the annual “Battle of the Boulevard" home games. In one of this games the two schools battled for the very first NCAA tournament berth.
The Bruins are currently coached by Rick Byrd who has been very successful with the team achieving for the second year in a row the conference tournament championship. Just last year the Bruins classified for the NCAA tournament but lost to George Hoyas.
Among some of the most well known sports students is head basketball coach at Northern Illinois University Ricardo Patton. |