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Loyola Wolf Pack
The Loyola Wolf Pack are the athletic teams representing Loyola University New Orleans in intercollegiate athletics. The Wolf Pack are a member of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), primarily competing in the Southern States Athletic Conference (SSAC) since the 2010–11 academic year. They previously competed in the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference (GCAC) from 1995–96 to 2009–10. History The intercollegiate athletics program was discontinued in 1972, but was reinstated in 1991. Loyola's intercollegiate teams are almost wholly funded through student activity fees per a student referendum passed in 1991. In 1972, Loyola suspended its athletics program, citing "educational and financial" reasons. However, in 1991, the athletics program was re-instituted, amid student appeals for its reinstatement, including the aforementioned referendum. Locally, Loyola's rivals are Xavier University of Louisiana and Dillard University. Loyola's old-school rival is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loyola University New Orleans
Loyola University New Orleans is a Private university, private Jesuit university in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Originally established as Loyola College in 1904, the institution was chartered as a university in 1912. It bears the name of the Jesuit founder, Ignatius of Loyola, Saint Ignatius of Loyola, and is a member of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. History Founding In the early 18th century Jesuits first arrived among the earliest settlers in New Orleans and Louisiana. Loyola University in New Orleans was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1904 as Loyola College on a section of the Foucher Plantation bought by the Jesuits in 1886. A young Jesuit, Fr. Albert Biever, was given a Nickel (United States coin), nickel for Tram, street car fare and told by his Jesuit superiors to travel Uptown New Orleans, Uptown on the Streetcars in New Orleans#St. Charles Avenue Line, St. Charles Streetcar and found a university. As with many Jesuit schools, it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baseball-Reference
Baseball Reference is a baseball statistics database maintained by Sports Reference. The site provides career statistics for Major League Baseball (MLB) players and teams as well as records, MLB draft history, and sabermetrics. History Founder Sean Forman began developing the website while working on his Ph.D. dissertation in applied math and computational science at the University of Iowa. While writing his dissertation, he had also been writing articles on and blogging about sabermetrics. Forman's database was originally built from the '' Total Baseball'' series of baseball encyclopedias. The website went online in April 2000, after first being launched in February 2000 as part of the website for the ''Big Bad Baseball Annual''. It was originally built as a web interface to the Lahman Baseball Database, though it now employs a variety of data sources. In 2004, Forman founded Sports Reference. Sports Reference is a website that came out of the Baseball Reference website. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stacy Hollowell
Stacy Hollowell (born August 1, 1975) is an American basketball coach who is the current head coach of the New Orleans Privateers men's basketball team. He previously coached for the St. Edward's Hilltoppers, Western Kentucky Hilltoppers, for the Qatar senior and youth national teams, Manama Sports Club, at LCC International University, for the Loyola Wolf Pack, Ole Miss Rebels and Texas Southern Tigers. Early life Hollowell was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, and grew up in Mandeville. He attended Mandeville High School and played four years of basketball. He graduated from St. Edward's University in Texas with a degree in economics in 2001. Coaching career Hollowell had coached Biddy Basketball teams while in high school and decided to continue coaching afterwards. While at St. Edward's, he served as a student assistant coach. He later served one season as a volunteer assistant for the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers, in 2000–01, before returning to St. Edward's as an assi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NAIA Men's Basketball Championship
The NAIA men's basketball national championship has been held annually by the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics since 1937 NAIA basketball tournament, 1937 to determine the national champion of men's college basketball among its members in the United States and Canada. The tournament was established by James Naismith to crown a national champion for smaller colleges and universities and has been held every year since, with the exceptions of 1944 NAIA basketball tournament, 1944 (due to World War II) and 2020 (due to the COVID-19 pandemic). Since 2022, the tournament has featured 64 teams, with teams beginning play at one of sixteen regional sites with the winners of those regionals playing at the final venue. From 1992 NAIA Division II men's basketball tournament, 1992 to 2020, the NAIA sponsored two championships, one for its Division I members and another for those in its NAIA Division II men's basketball championship, Division II. The Division I tournament was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
The NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, branded as March Madness, or The Big Dance, is a single-elimination tournament played in the United States to determine the men's college basketball national champion of the NCAA Division I, Division I level in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Played mostly during March, the tournament consists of 68 teams and was first conducted in 1939 NCAA basketball tournament, 1939. Known for its Upset (competition), upsets of favored teams, it has become one of the greatest annual sporting events in the US. The 68-team format was adopted in 2011 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, 2011; it had remained largely unchanged since 1985 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, 1985 when it expanded to 64 teams. Before then, the tournament size varied from as little as 8 to as many as 53. The field was restricted to conference champions until at-large bids were extended in 1975 NCAA Division I basketball tournamen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1946 NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1946 NAIA basketball tournament was held in March at Municipal Auditorium (Kansas City), Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. The 9th annual National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, NAIA basketball tournament featured 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format. The championship game was won by Southern Illinois Salukis men's basketball, Southern Illinois when the Salukis defeated the Indiana State Sycamores men's basketball, Indiana State Sycamores, 49-40. Central Missouri Mules basketball, Central Missouri State, the original National Champions, and first back-to-back National Champions, played in their final NAIA tournament, although they remained an NAIA member for another decade, leaving in the mid 1950s to join the NCAA. The Mules appeared seven tournaments recording an overall record of 13 wins and 6 losses. The Mules won two National Championships in 1937 and 1938 NAIA Basketball Tournament, 1938 and finishing in 4th place in 1942 NAIA Baske ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1945 NAIA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1945 NAIA basketball tournament was held in March at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. The 8th annual NAIA basketball tournament featured 16 teams playing in a single-elimination format, instead of the normal 32. It is the only tournament to feature only 16 teams. The NAIA semifinals featured four new teams for the first time since the inaugural year, 1937. The championship game featured Loyola New Orleans defeating Pepperdine 49–35. Loyola New Orleans would not go on to win another NAIA national title until 2022, 77 years later. Awards and honors Many of the records set by the 1945 tournament have been broken, and many of the awards were established much later: *Leading scorer est. 1963 *Leading rebounder est. 1963 *Charles Stevenson Hustle Award est. 1958 *Coach of the Year est. 1954 *Player of the Year est. 1994 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1963 Loyola LA At Loyola IL, Ken Ryan Swats For Rebound
Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove River, Sydney, Australia. * January 2 – Vietnam War – Battle of Ap Bac: The Viet Cong win their first major victory. * January 9 – A January 1963 lunar eclipse, total penumbral lunar eclipse is visible in the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia, and is the 56th lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 114. Gamma has a value of −1.01282. It occurs on the night between Wednesday, January 9 and Thursday, January 10, 1963. * January 13 – 1963 Togolese coup d'état: A military coup in Togo results in the installation of coup leader Emmanuel Bodjollé as president. * January 17 – A last quarter moon occurs between the January 1963 lunar eclipse, penumbral lunar eclipse and the Solar eclipse of January 25, 1963, annular solar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000 Major League Baseball Draft
The 2000 Major League Baseball draft, was the annual choosing of high school and college baseball players, held in June 2000. A total of 1,452 players were drafted. First round selections Compensation picks Background The Florida Marlins made Adrián González of Eastlake High School in Chula Vista, California the first overall selection in the 2000 First-Year Player Draft. González, who was rated as the best pure high school hitter in the draft by ''Baseball America'', was the first high school first baseman taken first overall since the New York Yankees chose Ron Blomberg in 1967. In his senior year, González hit .645 with 13 home runs and 34 RBI. Among the college players chosen was David Parrish, son of former major leaguer Lance Parrish, by the New York Yankees with the 28th pick. In addition, David Espinosa, a high school shortstop from Miami, Florida, became the first RBI ( Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities) alumnus ever selected in the first round of the draft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston Red Sox
The Boston Red Sox are an American professional baseball team based in Boston. The Red Sox compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) American League East, East Division. Founded in as one of the American League's eight charter franchises, the team's home baseball park, ballpark has been Fenway Park since . The "Red Sox" name was chosen by the team owner, John I. Taylor, , following the lead of previous teams that had been known as the "Boston Red Stockings", including the Boston Braves (now the Atlanta Braves). The team has won nine World Series championships, tied for the List of World Series champions, third-most of any MLB team, and has played in thirteen World Series. Their most recent World Series appearance and win was in 2018. In addition, they won the American League pennant (sports), pennant, but were not able to defend their 1903 World Series championship when the History of the New York Giants (baseball), New York Giants ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Washington Senators (1961–71)
Washington Senators may refer to: Politicians * Members of the United States Senate, which convenes in Washington, D.C. ** United States senators from Washington, senators representing the state of Washington in the United States Senate * Members of the Washington State Senate The Washington State Senate is the upper house of the Washington State Legislature. The body consists of 49 members, each representing a district with a population of nearly 160,000. The State Senate meets at the Washington State Capitol, Legis ..., which convenes in Olympia, Washington * Senator Washington (other), senators with the surname Washington * Shadow senator, an official symbolically elected to represent Washington, D.C., in the United States Senate Sports American football * Washington Senators (NFL), an American football team that played from 1921 to 1922 Baseball * Washington Senators (1891–1899) played in the American Association and the National League * Washington Senat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
