The Fairleigh Dickinson Knights refer to the 17
intercollegiate sports teams representing
Fairleigh Dickinson University's Metropolitan campus in
Teaneck &
Hackensack, New Jersey
Hackensack is the most populous municipality in and the county seat of Bergen County, New Jersey, Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. . Fairleigh Dickinson's
Florham Campus has a different mascot, the Fairleigh Dickinson Blue Devils. Fairleigh Dickinson University or (FDU) offers a variety of sports on the Division I level. The women's bowling team has won two national titles: in 2006 and 2010. The men's basketball team has reached the NCAA Tournament seven times in the program's history (1985, 1988, 1998, 2005, 2016, 2019, and 2023). The Knights compete in the
NCAA Division I
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and are members of the
Northeast Conference.
In 2023, the men's basketball team created one of the biggest
upsets in the NCAA tournament history by overcoming a 23.5 point spread to knock off Purdue. In doing so, the Knights became the second team in history as a 16-seed team to defeat a 1-seed team.
Sports sponsored
A member of the
Northeast Conference, Fairleigh Dickinson sponsors teams in nine men's and eleven women's NCAA sanctioned sports:
Men's basketball
On March 17, 2023, the FDU team became the second team in history to upset a 1 seed as a 16 seed against
Purdue in the
2023 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament.
Men's soccer
Toby Kim has been coach of the soccer team for over a quarter of a century, and was named 2000
Northeast Conference Men's Soccer Coach of the Year. As of 2022, he was the winningest coach in FDU men's soccer history (223-186-65, .538), the winningest coach in Northeast Conference history (115-60-37, .626), and the ninth active-winningest-coach in
NCAA Division I
NCAA Division I (D-I) is the highest division of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States, which accepts players globally. D-I schools include the major collegiate athlet ...
.
holds the Knights' all-time career record for shutouts (26).
Women's bowling
The Knights bowling team won the
NCAA Bowling National Championship in
2006 and
2010
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Florham Campus
The FDU Florham Campus sports teams are called the Devils. They are in NCAA
Division III and the
Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) and they compete in the
Middle Atlantic Conferences
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' (MAC)
MAC Freedom. The women's basketball team won the national collegiate basketball championship in the year 2013–2014.
The Women's basketball team also made it to the NCAA tournament four times in a row from the year 2012 to 2016. Their mascot is Ian the Devil.
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