Long Island Blackbirds men's basketball
| LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds | |||
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| University | Long Island University | ||
| Conference | NEC | ||
| Location | Brooklyn, NY | ||
| Head coach | Derek Kellogg (1st year) | ||
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Steinberg Wellness Center (Capacity: 3,000) |
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| Nickname | Blackbirds | ||
| Colors | Black and Silver |
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| Pre-tournament Premo-Porretta champions | |||
| 1936 | |||
| Pre-tournament Helms champions | |||
| 1939 | |||
| NCAA Tournament appearances | |||
| 1981, 1984, 1997, 2011, 2012, 2013 | |||
| Conference tournament champions | |||
| 1981, 1984, 1997, 2011, 2012, 2013 | |||
| Conference regular season champions | |||
| NEC: 1983, 1984, 1997, 1998, 2011, 2012 Metro NY: 1936, 1937, 1939 |
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The LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds men's basketball team represents Long Island University, located in Brooklyn, New York in NCAA Division I basketball competition. They play their home games at the Steinberg Wellness Center, formerly known as the Wellness, Recreation & Athletics Center, and are members of the Northeast Conference. Their current head coach is Derek Kellogg who was hired after his firing from Massachusetts in 2017. The 2017-18 season is his first as head coach. On March 12, 2013, the team achieved what was the greatest run in Northeast Conference history with a third straight NCAA Tournament bid.
LIU was a national powerhouse in the 1930s and 1940s under Clair Bee, who compiled the highest winning percentage in major college basketball history. The Blackbirds were retroactively recognized as the pre-NCAA Tournament national champion for the 1935–36 season by the Premo-Porretta Power Poll. However, after several players were implicated in the point-shaving scandal of 1951, LIU shuttered its entire athletic program. It returned to the College Division (now Division II) in 1957, and only returned to Division I in the 1980s.
The Blackbirds have appeared in the NCAA Division I Tournament six times. Their combined record is 0–6.
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