Omaha Mavericks: Difference between revisions

| director = [[MikeAdrian Kemp]] (interim)Dowell

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The Omaha men's basketball team is led by head coach [[DerrinChris HansenCrutchfield]], and also moved into Baxter Arena starting in 2015–16. They transitioned from Division II to Division I beginning in the 2011–12 season. The 2015–16 season iswas the first in which they arebecame eligible for NCAA-sponsored postseason play (either the [[NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship|NCAA Tournament]] or the [[National Invitation Tournament|NIT]]). The Mavericks' all-time record is 1,087–1,083. Omaha won regular season [[North Central Conference]] championships in 1979, 1984, 2004, and 2005.

Wrestling has also been a top sport for the Mavericks, winning the Division II championships in 1991, 2004–2006 and 2009–2011.<ref name="straight">{{Cite news|url=http://www.omaha.com/article/20100313/MAVS/703139788/-1|title=Mavericks lock down second straight title|last=White|first=Rob|work=Omaha World-Herald|date=March 13, 2010|access-date=January 23, 2011}}</ref> However, in 2011 Trev Alberts made the decision to disband the wrestling team only a few hours after it had won its third consecutive NCAA team title in order for Omaha to transition to NCAA Division I.<ref name="jump">{{Cite news|work=[[ESPN]]|url=httphttps://sportswww.espn.go.com/ncaacollege-sports/news/story?id=6212338|title=Nebraska-Omaha to make jump to D-I|date=March 13, 2011|access-date=April 24, 2011}}</ref> Head coach Mike Denney and a number of his wrestlers later transferred to [[Maryville University]] to start a Division II team.

'''Basketball, Women's''' – 1980, 1982, 1982<br>

'''Volleyball''' – 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1996⁶, 1997⁶, 2000⁷, 2023

Before 1939, UNO teams were known as the [[Northern Cardinal|Cardinals]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unoalumni.org/about_us/flashback/archive/131/ |title=UNO Alumni Association |publisher=Unoalumni.org |date=1949-05-13 |access-date=2015-05-13}}</ref> From 1939 to 1971, the UNO teams were the [[Native Americans in the United States|Indians]]; the mascot at this time was a Native American named Ouampi. In ''The Native Peoples of North America: A History'', the mascot is described as "so tacky by comparison that he made the [[Cleveland Indians]]' [[Chief Wahoo]] look like a real gentleman."<ref name=johansen-2006>{{cite book|last=Johansen|first=Bruce E.|title=The Native Peoples of North America: A History, Volume 1|year=2006|publisher=Rutgers University Press|page=428|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yiKgBuSUPUIC&pg=PA428|isbn= 9780813538990 }}</ref> The switch to "Mavericks", the current team name, occurred in the summer of 1971. A resolution, passed by an 18–7 vote of the student senate, a 27–0 vote of the university senate, and approved by the university president, called for UNO to "discontinue use of the name 'Indian' for its athletic teams, abolish "Ouampi" as a school mascot and end the misuse of the Native American culture at university activities, such as homecoming and Ma-ie Day.