Battle of the Boulevard
| Sport | Basketball |
|---|---|
| First meeting | December 11, 1953 Lipscomb 72, Belmont 53 |
| Latest meeting | December 6, 2016 Belmont 78, Lipscomb 76 |
| Next meeting | N/A |
| Statistics | |
| Meetings total | 140 |
| All-time series | Lipscomb leads 73-67 |
| Largest victory | Lipscomb, 105–68 (1986) |
| Longest win streak | 11 Games (2012-present) |
| Current win streak | Belmont, 11 Games |
The Battle of the Boulevard, also referred to as the Belmont–Lipscomb basketball rivalry is a college basketball rivalry between the Belmont University Bruins and the Lipscomb University Bisons. Its nickname was established because of both school's close placement in Nashville, Tennessee– about three miles apart on the same road. The rivalry was classified as non-conference following Belmont's departure from the Atlantic Sun Conference prior to the 2012-13 NCAA Division I basketball season. Their first meeting took place on December 11, 1953. It is one of the geographically closest rivalries in NCAA Division I.
Officially the first meeting took place on December 11, 1953, with Lipscomb emerging victorious 72-53. Neither team was in the NCAA.
Perhaps the greatest college basketball game between Belmont University and Lipscomb University was played on February 17, 1990 in front of an NAIA-record sellout crowd of 15,399 at Memorial Gymnasium (Vanderbilt University) in Nashville, Tennessee. Lipscomb won 124-105. Current Lipscomb athletics director and former star Philip Hutcheson said, "If you looked at Belmont’s box score alone you could have never imagined that they lost the game with the points they scored and the stat lines they had."
On January 27, 2004, both teams met in NCAA Division I conference play for the first time, with Belmont prevailing 66-64 in overtime.
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