The Evansville Purple Aces are the intercollegiate sports teams and players of the University of Evansville. The Aces participate in the NCAA's Division I in 14 sports and became a member of the Missouri Valley Conference in 1994, except for the men's swimming and diving team which competes in the Mid-American Conference. The school's official colors are purple, white and orange.
Prior to joining the Division I in 1977, the Aces were in fifteen of the twenty Division II men's basketball championship tournaments held, winning the title in 1959, '60, '64, '65, and '71. Since 1977, the Aces have made five trips to the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament and two to the NIT.
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Famous quotes containing the word purple:
“How clean the sun when seen in its idea,
Washed in the remotest cleanliness of a heaven
That has expelled us and our images . . .
The death of one god is the death of all.
Let purple Phoebus lie in umber harvest,
Let Phoebus slumber and die in autumn umber....”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)