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East Tennessee State Buccaneers basketball

East Tennessee State Buccaneers
2016–17 East Tennessee State Buccaneers basketball team
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University East Tennessee State University
First season 1918
All-time record 1,256–1,009 (.555)
Conference SoCon
Location Johnson City, TN
Head coach Steve Forbes (2nd year)
Arena Freedom Hall Civic Center
(Capacity: 8,500)
Nickname Buccaneers
Colors Navy Blue and Gold
         
Uniforms
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Home jersey
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Team colours
Home
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Away jersey
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Team colours
Away
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Alternate jersey
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Team colours
Alternate
NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen
1968
NCAA Tournament Round of 32
1992
NCAA Tournament appearances
1968, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2010
Conference tournament champions
1968, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2010
Conference regular season champions
1968, 1990, 1991, 1992, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2007

The East Tennessee State Buccaneers are the basketball team that represents East Tennessee State University (ETSU) in Johnson City, Tennessee. ETSU currently competes in the Southern Conference as of July 1, 2014. The team last played in the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament in 2010.

ETSU has been playing Division I basketball since the 1958–59 season when they joined the Ohio Valley Conference. In the 1979–1980 season ETSU joined the Southern Conference and after the 2004–2005 season they left the Southern Conference for the Atlantic Sun Conference. On July 1, 2014, they re-joined the Southern Conference.

      National champion         Postseason invitational champion  
      Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion
      Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion
      Conference tournament champion

Commonly referred to as "The Glory Days" of ETSU basketball, between 1989 and 1992, ETSU won 4 straight Southern Conference titles while compiling 99 wins. During this 4-year period ETSU had wins over prestigious programs such as Arizona, NC State (3 times), Wake Forest, Cincinnati, BYU, Xavier, Mississippi State, Southern Miss, Tennessee (twice) and Memphis. ETSU also suffered their most famous loss when they lost by 1 point to top ranked Oklahoma as a 16th seed in the 1989 NCAA Tournament.


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