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Before joining NCAA Division I athletics, IPFW competed in NCAA Division II's Great Lakes Valley Conference. In 2014, IPFW reach their first Summit League tournament championship before losing to North Dakota State. Beginning in 2016, the school rebranded itself from IPFW to Fort Wayne to build a stronger tie to the Fort Wayne community. [3]
The IPFW athletic program, branded as "IPFW" through 2015–16 and "Fort Wayne" in 2016–17 and 2017–18, was transferred in its entirety to PFW, adopting the current athletic branding of "Purdue Fort Wayne" at that time. The history of PFW men's basketball thus begins with IPFW's first season of intercollegiate competition in 1973–74.
In the summer of 1981, the Mastodons made a jump to NCAA Division II where they remained independent. Prior to the 1984–85 school year, the Mastodons joined the Great Lakes Valley Conference, their first-ever conference affiliation. At the start of the 2001–02 academic year, the Mastodons joined NCAA Division I as an independent.
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The university's 14 men's and women's athletic teams competed in Division I of the NCAA Summit League. On July 1, 2018, the two universities parted company in Fort Wayne. The health sciences programs on the campus became Indiana University Fort Wayne, and the other programs became Purdue University Fort Wayne (PFW). [5]
They were No. 57 in the opening NET ratings, the NCAA’s primary selection tool for postseason tournament bids. PFW isn’t a slouch by any means, but USI’s first D-I win was there for the taking.
An upset is a victory by an underdog team. In the context of the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament, a single-elimination tournament, this generally constitutes a lower seeded team defeating a higher-seeded (i.e., higher-ranked) team; a widely recognized upset is one performed by a team ranked substantially lower than its opponent.
Two human polls made up the 2020–21 NCAA Division I men's basketball rankings, the AP Poll and the Coaches Poll, in addition to various publications' preseason polls. With the release of the poll on November 30, Kansas was ranked in the AP poll for the 223rd consecutive week, breaking the record set by UCLA from 1966–1980. [ 1 ]