Milwaukee Panthers men's basketball
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| University | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee | ||
| Conference | Horizon League | ||
| Location | Milwaukee, WI | ||
| Head coach | LaVall Jordan (1st year) | ||
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UW–Milwaukee Panther Arena (Capacity: 10,783) |
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| Nickname | Panthers | ||
| Colors | Black and Gold |
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| NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen | |||
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| NCAA Tournament Round of 32 | |||
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| 2003, 2005, 2006, 2014 | |||
| Conference tournament champions | |||
| Horizon League 2003, 2005, 2006, 2014 |
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WIAC Horizon League 2004, 2005, 2006, 2011 |
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WIAC
1913, 1934, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1948, 1960
The Milwaukee Panthers men's basketball team is a NCAA Division I college basketball team competing in the Horizon League for the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. They play their home games at UW–Milwaukee Panther Arena in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
UWM's predecessor institutions (Milwaukee Normal School, Milwaukee State Teachers College and Milwaukee State College) have competed in basketball since the 19th century as the Milwaukee Normals (1896-1927) and Milwaukee State Green Gulls (1927-1956).
Milwaukee State's only undefeated season came in 1940 under head coach Guy Penwell as the Green Gulls finished the year 16-0 en route to their third Wisconsin State Conference championship.
The team competed under the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee name for the first time for the 1956–57 season. In honor of joining the University of Wisconsin System, they sported the cardinal red and white colors and adopted "Cardinals" as their nickname. Three years later, the Cardinals made their first post-season appearance in the 1960 NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Tournament.
Seeking to establish their own identity, Milwaukee adopted the colors of black and gold on September 1, 1965 and became known as the Panthers. They also left the Wisconsin State College Conference (now the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference) of which they'd been members since 1913, to form a conference with other urban public universities in the Great Lakes region such as the University of Illinois-Chicago and Cleveland State University. Such plans for a new conference never materialized, and the Panthers remained independent even as they moved from the NCAA College Division (now NCAA Division II) to the University Division (now NCAA Division I) in 1973.
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