Mount St. Mary's Mountaineers men's basketball

Mount St. Mary's Mountaineers
2024–25 Mount St. Mary's Mountaineers men's basketball team
UniversityMount St. Mary's University
Head coachDonny Lind (1st season)
ConferenceMAAC
LocationEmmitsburg, Maryland
ArenaKnott Arena
(capacity: 3,121)
NicknameMountaineers
ColorsBlue and white[1]
   
Uniforms
Home jersey
Team colours
Home
Away jersey
Team colours
Away


NCAA tournament champions
1962*
NCAA tournament runner-up
1981*
NCAA tournament Final Four
1957*, 1961*, 1962*, 1981*, 1985*
NCAA tournament Elite Eight
1957*, 1961*, 1962*, 1981*, 1985*
NCAA tournament Sweet Sixteen
1957*, 1961*, 1962*, 1969*, 1981*, 1982*, 1985*, 1986*, 1987*
NCAA tournament appearances
1957*, 1961*, 1962*, 1963*, 1967*, 1969*, 1970*, 1979*, 1980*, 1981*, 1982*, 1985*, 1986*, 1987*, 1995, 1999, 2008, 2014, 2017, 2021
* at Division II level
Conference tournament champions
Mason–Dixon Conference - 1944, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1967, 1986, 1988
Northeast Conference - 1995, 1999, 2008, 2014, 2017, 2021
Conference regular season champions
Northeast Conference - 1996, 2017
Mount St. Mary's player Gregory Graves takes a shot during a game against LIU Brooklyn at Knott Arena on January 2, 2016.

The Mount St. Mary's Mountaineers men's basketball team represents Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, Maryland, United States. Donny Lind is the program's current head coach since April 20, 2024. It competed in the Northeast Conference (NEC) from 1989 until July 1, 2022, when it joined the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.[2] The Mountaineers play their home games at Knott Arena. The team has played in five NCAA Division I men's basketball tournaments by virtue of winning the NEC tournament. They were NCAA Division II National Champions in 1962 and the NCAA Division II runner-up in 1981.

The Mount Saint Mary's basketball program likely is known best for the career of head coach Jim Phelan, who coached at Mount St. Mary's for 49 years, compiling 830 wins in 1,354 games. He was inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in 2008.

  1. ^ MSMU Graphic Standards (PDF). Retrieved March 23, 2016.
  2. ^ "MAAC Welcomes Mount St. Mary's University as Newest Member Institution". MAACSports.com. Retrieved May 2, 2022.