The LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds women's basketball team represented the
Brooklyn campus of
Long Island University
Long Island University (LIU) is a private university in Brooklyn and Brookville, New York, United States. The university enrolls over 16,000 students and offers over 500 academic programs at its main campuses, LIU Brooklyn and LIU Post on Long I ...
, located in
Brooklyn
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,
New York
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in
NCAA
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Division I basketball
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competition. They played their home games at the
Steinberg Wellness Center
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, formerly known as the Wellness, Recreation & Athletics Center, and were members of the
Northeast Conference
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(NEC).
At the end of the 2018–19 school year, LIU merged its two athletic programs—the Division I program of the Brooklyn campus and the
NCAA Division II
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program
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of its
Post campus in
Nassau County, New York
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—into a single Division I program that now competes as the
LIU Sharks
The LIU Sharks are the athletics teams representing Long Island University's (LIU) campuses in Brooklyn and Brookville, New York. The Sharks compete in NCAA Division I athletics and are members of the Northeast Conference. The LIU Sharks are th ...
. The Sharks maintain Brooklyn's Division I and NEC memberships.
History
The Blackbirds began play in 1965. They have made one NCAA Tournament appearance (2001) and one WNIT appearance (2007), losing in the First Round each time, 101-29 to Connecticut and 91-79 to Iona, respectively.
NCAA tournament results
References
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