St. Francis Brooklyn Terriers | ||||
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University | St. Francis College | |||
All-time record | 1236–1296 (.488) | |||
Location | Brooklyn, New York | |||
Arena | The ARC, Pratt Institute | |||
Nickname | Terriers | |||
Colors | Royal blue and red[1] | |||
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Conference regular season champions | ||||
MTNY: 1954, 1956, MCC: 1967, NEC: 2001, 2004, 2015 |
The St. Francis Brooklyn Terriers men's basketball program represented St. Francis College (SFC) in intercollegiate men's basketball up through the 2022–23 season, which was its last in intercollegiate competition. The team was a member of the Division I Northeast Conference. From late November 2022 until March 2023, the Terriers played home games at the Activity Resource Center (branded as "The ARC") at Pratt Institute in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn. Through the 2021–22 season, they had played in the Daniel J. Lynch '38 Gym in the Generoso Pope Athletic Complex, located on SFC's former Brooklyn Heights campus.[2] However, after the 2021–22 school year, SFC closed its Brooklyn Heights campus to move to a new campus on Livingston Street in Downtown Brooklyn. With the new campus lacking any athletic facilities, SFC arranged to use other nearby venues on at least a short-term basis.[3] The Terriers' final game at the Pope Athletic Complex was held on November 19, 2022.[4] The Terriers have also hosted home games at Madison Square Garden and at the Barclays Center.[5] On March 20, 2023, St. Francis College announced that it would end intercollegiate athletics following the spring semester,[6] making the 2022–23 season the program's final season in existence.
The St. Francis Brooklyn men's basketball program was founded in 1896 and is the oldest collegiate program in New York City.[7][8] The Terriers have an overall record of 1223–1295, 48.6 W–L%, over a 99-year span from the 1920–1921 to the 2019–2020 season.[9] The program has won 6 regular season championships and has participated in 4 National Invitational Tournaments. As of 2010, Glenn Braica was announced as the 17th head coach in the history of the St. Francis Terriers men's basketball program. Braica was previously an assistant under Norm Roberts at St. John's University.[10] Braica, who is in his tenth year with the team, has qualified nine times for the NEC tournament and in 2015 led the team to its first post season tournament in 52 years.[11]
The Terriers were one of seven NCAA Division I programs in New York City and in 2011 attending a Terriers game was named one reason to love New York by New York Magazine in their seventh annual Reasons to Love New York 2011 piece.[12] The Terriers are also one of only four original Division I programs (since 1939) to have never participated in the NCAA tournament.[13][14] The Terriers have been one win away from participating on three occasions, first in the 2000–01 season, then in the 2002–03 season, and again in the 2014–15 season. Beginning on November 27, 2012, St. Francis College rebranded its Athletics programs from St. Francis (NY) to St. Francis Brooklyn.[15] After the 2022-23 season, St. Francis Brooklyn dropped all intercollegiate athletics, including basketball, from the college after over 120 years of history.